Re: Bruins

["Shel Swartz" <shel@lotsofun.com>]

>The problem is that the NHL keeps on trying to mess up the game so
>that it will appeal better to people in Georgia and Oklahoma who are
>unlikely to EVER be interested.  I mean, come on!  Hockey is a winter
>sport, and 75% of the population of this country lives in places which
>don't have either large bodies of standing water or sustained cold
>weather.
>
>The audience ice hockey appeals to are the people who might have
>played pick-up hockey on frozen ponds while they were growing up.
>That effectively limits its appeal in the US to parts of the country
>which, outside of the northeast, are largely unpopulated.
>
Hey, Garrett!  Although I'm no hockey fan, it's a fairly popular sport here
in Florida.  For one thing, the good ol' boys here, just like those ":up
north",  love watching grown men fight each other with big sticks, and for
another thing, given the stigma that southerners have regarding their IQ,
since hockey games tend to score only into the single digits, that's not a
challenge to a southerner's knowledge of basic counting.

I said that just so we could get that out  of he way...I felt the beginnings
of an unintentioned  rank-out of southerners coming in your posting.

>The problem is that the NHL keeps on trying to mess up the game so
>that it will appeal better to people in Georgia and Oklahoma who are
>unlikely to EVER be interested.  >

Like Foghorn Leghorn said, "That's a joks, son, just a joke, son."

:) shel swartz - a native of the south (southern New England, that is)

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