Nutek

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Pulaski

Yeah, but discussing it is about as useful as discussing what will happen to Canada when Quebec secedes.

Yorkieabroad

Can't take here seriously when she's doing an impersonation of Pamela Stephenson on Not the Nine O clock news!

cindyabs

and the Border Reivers............

joto

They are still alive, kicking and Reiving.

kimilseung

Tonight for the first time, I sat at the bar and chatted with a stranger about sport. I got away with it. Its a little easier this year in Seattle to get away with it. Just shout out "how about them Hawks then?"

I have recently been given the duty of taking the daughter to dance twice a week, and there is an Irish pub next door, rather disappointed that I seem to be the only parent that thinks a pint is the logical solution to killing the time.

Well pleased with myself that I held my own in the chat.

Nutek

I am quite envious. I can't even keep it straight in my head which of the (seemingly endless) teams engages in each type of (seemingly endless) sport.

Lion in Winter

Track it by the ball, mostly:

Elliptical ball - american football
Round ball - football football, or soccer
Very bouncy round ball with very tall people - basketball
Small round ball - baseball
Small flat ball that you can't even see on tv - hockey

robin1234

I SHOULD be able to talk knowledgeably about hockey at this point, since my daughter has played, coached, driven the zamboni, and refereed for twenty years, many times with me sitting in the rink "watching." But I still have absolutely no idea what is happening on ice. All I can say is that twelve or fifteen minutes passes very slowly ....

zargof

All I know is that two teams try and hit a little disc at each other, and then just try and hit each other.

Guindalf

I went to a fight recently and a hockey game broke out!

Nutek

Hiro11

It's really one of the simplest sports around:

1. 5 players a team (note: not "side", "team"), one goalie.
2. The players all try to get the puck in the net, the goalies try to keep the puck out of the net. 3 of the 5 players are attack, 2 are defenders.
3. Three 20 minute periods.
4. Play restarts through a "face-off", which is exactly the same thing as a jump ball in basketball.
5. Penalties are common and result in the penalized team being short a player for two minutes.
6. Offsides is similar to soccer (sic) but dictated by the two blue lines, not the presence of defenders.
7. The only other major rule is "icing" which dictates that you can't send the puck over two red lines (there's one at either end in line the with goals and one in the middle) without anyone touching it, doing so results in face-off in at the end of the ice that the puck originally came from.
8. The sport is exhausting and teams can swap players in whenever they want and as often as they want. Swapping a player in does not require a stoppage of play, it's done on the fly.
9. It is, bar none, the most fun team sport to play in the world.

That's about it.
Oh yeah, and fighting is a time-honored part of the game but doesn't happen in the vast majority of games.

Nutek

I glazed over somewhere partway through 2.

SultanOfSwing

I guess I haven't been in the US too long after all. I still think hockey is a load of shit.