Once more, with even more feeling....
Edmonton won in OT at Carolina last night, so thank the gods that I/we get to hear this one last time.
To me, they can just skip the awful ditty that is our National Anthem. No one knows the words. It's just a horrible tune with no rhythm, no nothin'. Any pub song should never ever be turned into a nation's anthem, especially for the most kickassingist nation on tha planet; am I right people?!? Just not a good song at all, if you ask me.
So on Saturday night, just sing the Canadian anthem "Oh, Canada" again. Or maybe even three times total. It just is a beautiful song, anthem or no.
And to have 15K loud-ass fans singing it at the top of their lungs....well, as I said similarly in a prior post: if that doesn't get you juiced, there is no soul residing in your sports fan bones. None 'tall.
Go Edmonton! Bring the Cup back to where it belongs; in the middle of absolutely nowheres-ville, Alberta. Versus Raleigh, NC, a nowheres-ville, USA, where I bet the youth hockey participants can be counted using one or two people's fingers and toes.
Edit: This is from the pre-game of Game 3 in Edmonton. It's 10 minutes long, and has Don Cherry wearing a sportscoat made out of something he must have run over on the drive to the arena, but the anthems are great. This is just "sports porn" in the best sense of the phrase (which I just made up!).
To me, they can just skip the awful ditty that is our National Anthem. No one knows the words. It's just a horrible tune with no rhythm, no nothin'. Any pub song should never ever be turned into a nation's anthem, especially for the most kickassingist nation on tha planet; am I right people?!? Just not a good song at all, if you ask me.
So on Saturday night, just sing the Canadian anthem "Oh, Canada" again. Or maybe even three times total. It just is a beautiful song, anthem or no.
And to have 15K loud-ass fans singing it at the top of their lungs....well, as I said similarly in a prior post: if that doesn't get you juiced, there is no soul residing in your sports fan bones. None 'tall.
Go Edmonton! Bring the Cup back to where it belongs; in the middle of absolutely nowheres-ville, Alberta. Versus Raleigh, NC, a nowheres-ville, USA, where I bet the youth hockey participants can be counted using one or two people's fingers and toes.
Edit: This is from the pre-game of Game 3 in Edmonton. It's 10 minutes long, and has Don Cherry wearing a sportscoat made out of something he must have run over on the drive to the arena, but the anthems are great. This is just "sports porn" in the best sense of the phrase (which I just made up!).
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