From certain angles he looks like my brother if my brother had dark hair. Ick. It might also be the slightly vacant look, which Scarlet did comment upon tonight.
Aw... but my hatred for Crosby long predates this particular goal. (Washington hockey long being tormented by Pittsburgh...) This was a very big "anybody but him..." moment.
Leaving aside the "who scored the goal", it was an excellent game with two great teams and a story book finish for the Olympic Games - at least for Canada. ;-)
I need not remind you that it takes TWO GREAT TEAMS to make a great game. Well done to your team to push into sudden death overtime. At that stage it could easily have gone the other way.
Still.....I *am* happier we got it and broke the gold medal record too! But if it had gone the other way I would have expected you to be rejoicing and wouldn't have begrudged it.....much. ;-)
Yes, the US played very well as a team. Oh it would have been very nice to have won, but I'm still surprised by how much 1980 sustains me. Even if I was just a little kid at the time. I was actually more upset by the Russia game - not wanting to see Ovie go out with a whimper just as the Caps did against the Penguins in game 7 of the playoffs last year.
That's sort of a weird thing - rooting for my country on one hand, and then rooting for Sweden/Russia because they have my City's pro players - which is an odd dynamic for me.
Honestly, I'm glad the medal counts worked out nicely for the host nation. At the end of the events, I'm still largely rooting for a good show.
But that said - this is manufactured outrage, which the IOC often does. (See condemnations of Usain Bolt for his victory celebration.) I think it was mostly because they did it on the ice surface instead of in the locker room. Marie-Phillipe Poulin's age was something of an afterthought.
She is of legal drinking age in Quebec, which is her home province. It's not like there's a big sign when you enter a new province announcing that it's drinking age is different. She may have known or not or may have forgotten...who knows, but it really struck me as reaching for something to be upset about.
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Including me.
*hands you a tissue*
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(I wish it had been someone else, though since he's going to be my future son in law, or so says Scarlet, I can't admit that out loud!)
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*hands you a beer - a Canadian beer and a cigar* ;-)
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Still.....I *am* happier we got it and broke the gold medal record too! But if it had gone the other way I would have expected you to be rejoicing and wouldn't have begrudged it.....much. ;-)
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That's sort of a weird thing - rooting for my country on one hand, and then rooting for Sweden/Russia because they have my City's pro players - which is an odd dynamic for me.
Honestly, I'm glad the medal counts worked out nicely for the host nation. At the end of the events, I'm still largely rooting for a good show.
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But that said - this is manufactured outrage, which the IOC often does. (See condemnations of Usain Bolt for his victory celebration.) I think it was mostly because they did it on the ice surface instead of in the locker room. Marie-Phillipe Poulin's age was something of an afterthought.
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AW, I could not BELIEVE that shit. TWENTY FOUR SECONDS left, and then they gave it up to an easy shot. Unfreakingbelievable.
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Also, now I'm worried that whatever infected Team Russia is going to plague my boy Ovie.