A Quick Public Service Announcement
by Yankee Canuck on May 6, 2010 1:33 PM PDT
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We as fans, during the course of being humiliated, have to learn to be humble about it. It happens to everyone. And hell, by doing so, just maybe a lesson is learned you can carry on in other avenues of your life. Positive thinking!
Our team's fanbase (to speak nothing of the players) gets ripped left, right and center for a multitude of opinionated reasons. Many of them absurd, but everyone has their opinions and as someone breathing south of the border, I steer clear of them because I don't feel I have the perspective to comment (never stepped foot in GM Place for instance).
However, I have to repeat something I tweeted (haaaate that phrase) last night: don't throw shit on the ice. Seriously. It's a fucking game. Be angry? Sure. Yes. Drink until you can't feel feelings anymore? You betcha. But acting like a bunch of spoiled children doesn't do you, the people in your row, your team or your city an iota of justice. The fifth goal isn't going to be called back because you want to share your polish sausage with the officials. I would think that this is elementary enough. And it makes all of us look like shitheels, including those of us who are relatively normal individuals who's great sin is we actually like this team but maintain the mental capacity to separate right from the stupendously inane. We have our media doing enough injustices on our behalf, don't help them.
If you'd like to speak further on the subject, just call my mom and she'll ring the bell which signals to me it's time to stop Photoshopping Iron Maiden images, put pants on and leave the basement for a civilized discussion.
Sorry, one more PSA: Willie Mitchell - Please see Jordan Staal's medical staff this afternoon.
It's just 2-1 folks. Nothing is over. Bad games happen. Atrocious games like that happen. Chicago has the momentum but Vancouver has been in this position before and pretty sure the coach's response then was "the best players have to be the best." It's time tested and mother approved.
More games 1 & 2, less game 3. As we said last round: "what better place than here? What better time than now?"
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Great points Mike. I hate even acknowledging stuff being throwm on the ice. It’s so embarrassing, but needs to be addressed. As you so succinctly have.
I see no need to call your mom yet (still have her number though). ;)
Shove it in your addendum.
haha
Walked into that joke didn’t i?
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by Yankee Canuck on May 6, 2010 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
hear hear, Mike!
while not all Canucks fans are riot-causing, vitriol spewing, trailer trash, incidents like this do nothing to dispel that myth. Though it does remind me of a joke.
Three hockey fans were on their way to a game when one noticed a foot sticking out of the bushes by the side of the road. They stopped and discovered a nude female drunk and passed out.
Out of respect for the lady, the Edmonton fan took off his cap and placed it over her right breast.
The Calgary fan took off his cap and placed it over her left breast. Following their lead, the Vancouver fan took off his cap and placed it over her crotch.
The police were called and when the officer arrived, he conducted his inspection. First, he lifted up the Edmonton cap, replaced it, and wrote down some notes. Next, he lifted the Calgary cap, replaced it, and wrote down some more notes. The officer then lifted the Vancouver cap, replaced it, then lifted it again, replaced it, lifted it a third time, and replaced it one last time.
The Vancouver fan was getting upset and finally asked, “What are you, a pervert or something? Why do you keep lifting and looking, lifting and looking?”
" Well, " said the officer. " I am simply surprised. Normally when I look under a Vancouver Canucks hat, I find an asshole."
by ChuckinNux on May 6, 2010 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
LOL
rec’d that was good!
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by Toews-makes-funny-faces on May 6, 2010 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions
AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on May 6, 2010 2:24 PM PDT reply actions
I agree with your post wholeheartedly. A lot of people go to Canucks games for the atmosphere as they have hookups to tickets. Some are not true hockey fans, and treat the game like a Friday night housewrecker.
However, allowing the 5th goal was more of a disgrace to hockey than throwing stuff on the ice is. If human curling is the secret to the “new NHL”, then we need Bernier and SOB to gain 30 lbs and practice skating into the opposing net.
What if you DO want to share your polish sausage with the officials?
Don’t worry, we have plenty of goobers and db’s in Chicago. There’s no avoiding it.
Do it after the game. You need a beer to wash it down anyway. And the official’s gotta be hella talented to get both the sausage and beer in his mouth if you throw it. If he does he gets a pat on the head.
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by Yankee Canuck on May 6, 2010 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I particularly loved that line
well put
by puppetmasterp on May 6, 2010 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
GM Place doesn't have Polish Sausage!
at least not in the 300 level! They call it sausage, but it is an oversized weiner – like a Ballpark Frank, but nowhere near as good.
That’s always been the one drawback to being a hockey fan, at least in the past ten years or so. No matter where you sit in the arena there is at least one loud mouthed prick douchebag being stupid in your vicinity. You always want to tell them to shut the fuck up and stop throwing shit, except they’re always just drunk enough that it would probably end up in a fist fight. I really do hate assholes at games…yet they’re always there. In every arena. Every hockey city has it’s whalley (except edmonton which happens to be one big whalley), and those fans are always at the games. With apologies to any nice whalley residents…see how I didn’t say surrey?
"Hope you like pancakes, Norway..." Morgan Freeman
"you'll be playing in england the rest of your career" Alex Burrows
"Aint no party like my nana's tea party...hey...hoe..."
Spot on about Whalley.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on May 6, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I tend to find
the most action happened in the ‘Molson Canadian Zone’, which is why I moved my seats the first chance I could. I grew tired of people showing up late to the game, leaving early to hit the lav/lineup, arriving late to the period, spilling their beer (on me), and shouting obscenities.
now, I am no saint, but feel that if you want to be that big of a jackass, you would be better served staying at home. the food is cheaper, the beer is more readily available (and generally better – Rickards? Canadian? Corona? C’mon) and you don’t have to wait in line at the urinals.
No matter where you sit in the arena there is at least one loud mouthed prick douchebag being stupid in your vicinity.
I thought that happens only in L.A. I often prefer not to go to the game, to avoid those idiots.
Los Angeles, CA
I’ve seen NHL games in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa, San Jose, Boston and LA, and not once have I been at a game without at least one of those guys. Can’t speak for other cities I guess.
"Hope you like pancakes, Norway..." Morgan Freeman
"you'll be playing in england the rest of your career" Alex Burrows
"Aint no party like my nana's tea party...hey...hoe..."
Oh please...
LA is completely civilized compared to any Canadian arena (or many east coast U.S. arenas).
If you think staples Center is rough, then you gotta grow some balls son.
Is there anything douchier than calling someone son?
Maybe it’s just me but I hate that shit. I find it hugely disrespectful.
Unless you are actually AtillaS’ father. In which case never mind.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on May 6, 2010 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually...
I think saying ‘boy’ would have been much douchier :) I’m just sayin’
by sunshine and lollipops on May 6, 2010 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I dunno about anyone else but to me both are kinda lame…someone says ‘boy’ i instantly think of some loser with swastika tatooed on his ass and wearing a white hood, and someone says ‘son’ I think of some redneck in a trailer park somewhere in a very poor part of the US threatening me with his shotgun. Other names that others might find more offensive are actually less egregious to me.
"Hope you like pancakes, Norway..." Morgan Freeman
"you'll be playing in england the rest of your career" Alex Burrows
"Aint no party like my nana's tea party...hey...hoe..."
Son
has a subservient tone to it. Like the guy thinks he is better than me. Especially when you say it to someone older than you. Just comes off as a talking down thing to me.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on May 6, 2010 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Or he wears grills and a doorag.
"I was thinking it would be cool to see a game on the road. I have been looking all over this atlas but I don't see Vancouver anywhere. What state is this sh*t in!?"
- Dallas Stars Forum
YO SON YOU NEED TO CHECK YOSELF.
That is my impression. You all laughed, don’t lie.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on May 6, 2010 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I may have laughed a little :)
by sunshine and lollipops on May 7, 2010 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
We have our media and Alex Burrows doing enough injustices on our behalf, don’t help them.
/fixed
by it'snotsomuchmeasitisroenick on May 6, 2010 7:02 PM PDT reply actions
No the sentence was fine as is.
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by Yankee Canuck on May 6, 2010 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I stand by my statement
That guy is a complete sack of shit. Impossible to say for sure, but I’d hate him even if he was on my team.
by it'snotsomuchmeasitisroenick on May 7, 2010 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks for this.
I was at the game last night, and the same thing happened last year, as well. It’s just a handful of crass jerks who start it, and I think otherwise decent people just get sucked into the mob mentality. I love my Hawks, but I love the city of Vancouver too (hell, I love BC in general), and I’d hate for folks to get the impression that fans and people here don’t have class.
For a moment, last night, I thought I was in Detroit….but the women in the stands were WAY too hot!
See???
Kane’s girls did not do local ladies justice.
"I was thinking it would be cool to see a game on the road. I have been looking all over this atlas but I don't see Vancouver anywhere. What state is this sh*t in!?"
- Dallas Stars Forum
by eightyseven on May 6, 2010 9:37 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I forgot where I read this
Probably somewhere on SCH… but somebody called Kane the prettiest one in that limo.
by HungryHungryPanda on May 6, 2010 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Hawks fan here...
Aside from a few douchebags throwing stuff on the ice, you Canuckleheads are just some of the most decent people I’ve ever met. I played hockey in Southern California in college with 3 guys from Abbotsford, BC and they are die hard Nucks fans (of course) and aside from a little friendly trash-talking, they are just the nicest guys I’ve ever met. I hope this series goes 7 games simply so I can enjoy a long series with my buddies north of the border. Of course, Hawks will win in 7, but that’s not news to anyone here.
1961 is a long time ago.
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