Oink

I get that part, but given that hockey is the original form of the ice version, which they bang on about incessantly, I'm just a little surprised that they don't give it more credence.

Souvy

Prove that one. Iced hockey dates back to the Vikings.

cheeky_monkey

Because nobody cares about Sidney who?

Novocastrian

I had the impression it might have been something that Ghengis Khan dreamed up. Or possibly even earlier roots, among the Neanderthals.

Almost Canadian

On the basis of where they sit on the evolutionary scale, is there a great difference between those that attend ice hockey watching NHL games and those that stand on the terraces watching EPL football? It seems to be that each are as obsessed with how their teams are doing; whether a player should be sold/purchased; or whether the manager should be fired as the other.

Oink

Terraces?

cheeky_monkey

you cant stand on the terraces at premier league games because there are none

Former Lancastrian

True but they do stand at EPL games as evident by most away fans doing this to piss off the FA and others as they believe they should be allowed to stand but thats a different debate.
Canadian kids born here do tend to take up hockey as their main sport but that is slowly changing due to costs and not all kids are born from families who are followers of hockey. There are more kids registered and playing football (soccer) than hockey.
I do find it strange that there are only 6 Canadian professional hockey teams in the NHL but dozens in the AHL, OHL etc etc.
At least in hockey they have not got to the stage where rival fans have to be segregated and escorted like soccer fans are.
As for other sports Canada has 1 (one) NBA team, 9 CFL teams and 1 Baseball team and 3 x MSL teams so yes choice is limited to watch professional sports teams over here.

Novocastrian

I think watching it is a new idea. I was talking about the players.

BristolUK

But this is the Canada section of the forum where we discuss things in Canada.

As I said, I don't. Yet I saw the reports about this youngster from Nova Scotia leading Canada to yet another world championship.

Do you never read anything about something you have no interest in? Not even the opening line to confirm it has no interest?

Not even so you might have some idea what other people, like work colleagues, are talking about? Especially when it's plastered over the Canadian newspapers, the lead item on Canadian radio and TV News?

Bit insular aint it?

Someone knows then.



Or just wanting to wind someone up.

Novocastrian

Yes, we likely all saw reports of some such thing but we also saw advertisements for prophylatics, silly movies, toothpaste etc. All in Canada.

Do we really have to discuss them all?

Are they going to do an advert for a treatment for concussion soon?

dbd33

Of course. As a case in point, I followed the link, saw Mr. Crosby and his golden goal and, having confirmed it was of no interest, didn't stick around long enough to find out the event.

As mentioned above, people at work talk about television or cruises or barbecues. There was a work trip to an NFL game once and sometimes they go to see the nags. Otherwise I haven't heard spectator sports being mentioned. We don't have a television and we have a satellite radio so I wouldn't know what the lead item on the Canadian news is, if a Canadian story is important it'll be in the Graun.

I have, however, been seeing a Canadian paper lately. A commuter who stays in an hotel brings it in and leaves it in the lunch room, it's like a Canadian USA Today except that it has lots of adverts for Holt Renfrew's presentations of Victoria Beckham's frocks. I noticed last week that the front page had some sort of a feature on violence in iced hockey and I thought, "10 years I don't see this paper and it still has the story on the front page". I didn't read it but skipped instead to the page 2 feature on how the internet is freeing Canadians from the tyranny of the single store wedding list.

One glance at that paper, the Globe and Mail it's called, and I'm set for a week of guilt free perusal of the, relatively high brow, Sidebar of Shame on the dailymail.com.

BristolUK

Nope. The point was only about awareness. Sounds like you were at least aware so that you might not say "who?"

London Mike

He's a darn sight better role model as captain of his country than John Terry was. I think a lot of people do care about him.

el_richo

Who's John Terry?

Edit: Aaaah a quick google shows he's to do with that football.