You know you've been in the US too long when...
Dec 4th 2013, 3:09 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Dec 4th 2013, 3:13 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
That's nice, but it doesn't really matter. Furthermore, the 'sic' is not required - soccer is a British term dating back to the 1800s. You guys just had to borrow the term as it was decided to call the American game 'football' instead of 'rugby' (which is itself a code of football anyway).
Dec 4th 2013, 3:16 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
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.
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.
One thing - not all periods are twenty minutes. Some are twelve or fifteen.
Dec 4th 2013, 3:18 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Again ... No need to use (sic) with soccer. The game is interchangeably called soccer and football in the UK. Soccer is short for Association Football, and as such was coined as an informal term for the game back in the nineteenth century.
Dec 4th 2013, 3:20 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Oh and I'm not needlessly picking on American sports either. I can tolerate baseball, I've always liked basketball (used to play it at school a lot) and this season I've got back into American Football again.
I just have an irrational hatred of hockey that I will never be able to explain
I just have an irrational hatred of hockey that I will never be able to explain
Dec 4th 2013, 3:35 pm
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Oh and I'm not needlessly picking on American sports either. I can tolerate baseball, I've always liked basketball (used to play it at school a lot) and this season I've got back into American Football again.
I just have an irrational hatred of hockey that I will never be able to explain
I just have an irrational hatred of hockey that I will never be able to explain
Dec 4th 2013, 3:38 pm
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I can easily get poutine much closer to home than the United Center anyway, if they even sell it there - there's a (ridiculously good) sandwich place a mere fifteen minutes from my gaff that does it as a side and their chips are among the best in the local area, which is a plus.
Dec 4th 2013, 3:47 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
CT is a bit tricky...depends where you live as one half will be hardcore Boston Redsox/Pats/Celtics/Bruins fans and the other half go for NY and that mess of a collection of teams who don't actually play in NY. No one ever seems to go for the Bills, who do actually play in the state, even if it is in the wobbly end bit.
Dec 4th 2013, 4:48 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
I. Know. The sic is for failed comedy purposes.
Dec 4th 2013, 5:09 pm
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The main problem with ice hockey is the cheerleaders.
The 'best' ones go to Football, then in descending order basketball, soccer and whatever is leftover gets dumped into hockey, presumably so they can wear thick coats and long pants so you can't tell they're pudgy enough to give HH an aneurism, have zero coordination and 2 left feet to boot. And given that many of the local sports require a show built around them to distract from how dull the sport actually is, that's quite a handicap for ice hockey.
The 'best' ones go to Football, then in descending order basketball, soccer and whatever is leftover gets dumped into hockey, presumably so they can wear thick coats and long pants so you can't tell they're pudgy enough to give HH an aneurism, have zero coordination and 2 left feet to boot. And given that many of the local sports require a show built around them to distract from how dull the sport actually is, that's quite a handicap for ice hockey.
Dec 4th 2013, 5:37 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
The main problem with ice hockey is the cheerleaders.
The 'best' ones go to Football, then in descending order basketball, soccer and whatever is leftover gets dumped into hockey, presumably so they can wear thick coats and long pants so you can't tell they're pudgy enough to give HH an aneurism, have zero coordination and 2 left feet to boot. And given that many of the local sports require a show built around them to distract from how dull the sport actually is, that's quite a handicap for ice hockey.
The 'best' ones go to Football, then in descending order basketball, soccer and whatever is leftover gets dumped into hockey, presumably so they can wear thick coats and long pants so you can't tell they're pudgy enough to give HH an aneurism, have zero coordination and 2 left feet to boot. And given that many of the local sports require a show built around them to distract from how dull the sport actually is, that's quite a handicap for ice hockey.
Dec 4th 2013, 6:09 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
If I actually wanted to follow the game, I would find it annoying in my field of vision. I suppose the idea is to keep your pecker up.
Dec 4th 2013, 6:56 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Yeah - there aren't any. 
There are, however, the equally scantilly-clad young women who will occasionaly come skating onto the ice with their brooms to clean things up during a stoppage in play.
Regards, JEff
There are, however, the equally scantilly-clad young women who will occasionaly come skating onto the ice with their brooms to clean things up during a stoppage in play.
Regards, JEff
Last edited by jeffreyhy; Dec 4th 2013 at 8:00 pm.
