He's Made of Plastic, I'm Made of Wood
by RudyKelly on Feb 14, 2010 8:47 AM PST
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I was kind of disappointed he wasn't meat-based, but it'll do. Fun fact: 3 co-workers have already said, "There are black hockey players?" Oh, and one dude asked me if they had positions in hockey or if they just skate around wherever. My work sucks.
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Oh, and one dude asked me if they had positions in hockey or if they just skate around wherever.
Koivu does. And from what I’ve seen Simmonds does too. These guys are all over the place in a good way.
Do you try and explain hockey to your co-workers, or just ignore the stupid comments?
just yesterday a buddy of my roomates was over and we had womens olympics ice hockey on. This guy decides to go off on how he hates hockey and how its the worst sport ever. After he’s done my roomie says " were hockey hockey fans" and shuts him up. I wanted to drill him and find out why he hates it so much, but instead I sat there quietly hating the guy, knowing deep inside that hockey is the greastest sport, which in turn makes hockey fans the greatest fans ever (exept detroit). I will now hate this guy forever, and he wont even know it…….perfect.
es muy caliente.
Sometimes I feel like I have to “come out” as a hockey fan, like
“What’s your favorite sport?”
“This may sound odd, but I’m a huge hockey fan”
“Oh.”
*awkward silence
One thing I’ve been interested in doing is trying to explain that hockey is not “low scoring”, and if each goal counted as 7 points, hockey and football would be just about the same, points-wise. Not sure anyone would care.
We all are love and love is hard
Once
I encountered a guy who hated hockey, and I pointed out that the skill involved was extraordinary, and he told me that the value of the sport is not how skilled the athletes are to do it but how many people watch it.
So I asked him if he liked soccer, and he said no he likes basketball. What an asshat.
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Feb 15, 2010 7:14 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
just yesterday a buddy of my roomates was over and we had womens olympics ice hockey on. This guy decides to go off on how he hates hockey and how its the worst sport ever.
I met a guy like that once. He claimed the only reason hockey was so big in Canada was because there were no other sports available to them. He also said that any jackass could play goalie. I explained to him that hockey goalie is one of the most if not the most demanding positions out of any sport both mentally and physically and that I would like to see him stop a 90 MPH hockey puck, prefferably with his face, then tell me that any jackass could play goalie at an NHL level. He still wasn’t sold. He’s a friend of a friend, so I still see him every once in awhile and whenever I see him, I just glare at him for like 10 seconds and think “……fucktard.” One day it might slip out.
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by yeah_eric on Feb 14, 2010 1:49 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Meat Train, will you be my valentine?
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by Earl Sleek on Feb 14, 2010 5:13 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Sorry about your co-workers, Rudy. I feel for you.
I used to try to talk people into loving hockey like I do, but then I started thinking about how infuriated I get when people try to talk me into liking football, so now I just skate away.
I would try to explain all the things that are great about hockey, while football fans would just yell at me, “You don’t like football?! Everybody loves football! What kind of a person doesn’t love football!?!” Sigh.
by Patty (in Dallas) on Feb 14, 2010 6:59 PM PST reply actions
Football fans
tend to be the lowest common denominator of sports fans. Nearly all my co-workers only talk football yet their “team” seems to change every year. They’re currently all Saints fans.
Sorry Seattle, 2010 still isn't your year.
by Teixeira Who? on Feb 14, 2010 10:45 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, that’s why I can’t root for any football or basketball teams, because I only feel loyalty to my local teams, everyone else here seems to root for whichever team is “the most badass” that year. A football team in Anaheim, and I’ll give them a chance at my loyalty (not that I necessarily want one here).
We all are love and love is hard
When your local team is the Detroit Lions, you learn to like out of towners, local college players, or just going by fantasy teams instead.
In high school, our routine in fall used to be to watch the Lions until about halftime, at which point they were already obviously going to lose, and then we’d all go play football at the park.
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I think the “lowest common denominator of sports fans” are actually NASCAR fans, actually.
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Feb 15, 2010 7:16 AM PST up reply actions
Well said
I just have such a hard time calling it a ’’sport’’
Sorry Seattle, 2010 still isn't your year.
by Teixeira Who? on Feb 15, 2010 6:30 PM PST up reply actions
It’s probably about as much of a “sport” as wrestling is “real”.
HOWEVER, so long as I get to see guys wreck and/or catch fire, I’ll pay moderate interest to it. I won’t pay to see it, but I wouldn’t mind the damage.
Denis Gauthier sucks at hockey... and life.
Exactly
It makes those 30 second NASCAR clips on SportsCenter worth watching.
Sorry Seattle, 2010 still isn't your year.
by Teixeira Who? on Feb 16, 2010 7:45 PM PST up reply actions
BTW, BoC readers — feel free to try to win your own Meat Train bobblehead at JFTC so you too can field idiot co-worker questions like Rudy!
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