Topic: Look, I still love our Canadian Posters, but C'mon.

[Sirgod]

hehe.

[Bonk]

Ouch! Pretty funny though. 

[Nemesis]

For the last 20 years or so I've been complaining about the behaviour of sports fans and pointing out how it was the beginning of the trend leading to the European "football hooligan" problem.  It is now approaching being on par with those hooligans. 

For me it started with the World Cup of Soccer where the Portuguese and Italians took to the streets and disrupted traffic and were just generally disruptive.  The cops did nothing by policy.  It has escalated step by step as I predicted all the way to the current violence.  Now when the pattern is established is not the time to fix it, it was the time when the first symptoms showed up. 

I'm positive that some of these people travel from event to event just to riot (and likely steal under the riots cover).  The G-8 issues in Toronto showed the same issues.

[Lieutenant_Q]

Everyone I talk to knows, that the week before the Detroit Lions play in the Super Bowl, anyone with any sense of self-preservation will move out of Detroit.  Because they day they win the Super Bowl, is the day Detroit burns to the ground.  It's not a Canadian thing.

[Age]

Well as a Vancouverite all I can say is that the day after a bunch of volunteers went down and cleaned up.I don't think the authorities thought this was going to happen from all the other games1,2,5.when it comes to the hockey part that was of on the part of the officiating as Boston had no calls against has much as we did.We ended up with more penalties than Boston did it explains why Bettman got boohed the way he did.It happened in 94 as well.it is all over with untill next time.

I am just wondering what would happen if we won or when that day comes.

[Javora]

Everyone I talk to knows, that the week before the Detroit Lions play in the Super Bowl, anyone with any sense of self-preservation will move out of Detroit.  Because they day they win the Super Bowl, is the day Detroit burns to the ground.  It's not a Canadian thing.

A few years ago I would have giggled at the notion of the Lions winning the Super Bowl but I'm starting to think that they might have a shot in the next year or so.  Luckily for Detroit a lot of the city is abandon now anyway.     Back on topic sort of, Canada should get another hockey team, it's only fair since there has been a lot of expansion on the American side.   Canada certainly shown that they can compete.

[762_XC]

LOL Bettman gets booed every time he steps up to a mike.

[Age]

Everyone I talk to knows, that the week before the Detroit Lions play in the Super Bowl, anyone with any sense of self-preservation will move out of Detroit.  Because they day they win the Super Bowl, is the day Detroit burns to the ground.  It's not a Canadian thing.

A few years ago I would have giggled at the notion of the Lions winning the Super Bowl but I'm starting to think that they might have a shot in the next year or so.  Luckily for Detroit a lot of the city is abandon now anyway.     Back on topic sort of, Canada should get another hockey team, it's only fair since there has been a lot of expansion on the American side.   Canada certainly shown that they can compete.

We could actually support more than one up to four.I am glad Bettman get booed as he stopped us from getting another team in Ontario.

[Lieutenant_Q]

LOL Bettman gets booed every time he steps up to a mike.

And deservedly so.  I wish the man would go back to Basketball and leave the glorious sport of Hockey alone.  The man brought his ref-fixing scheme with him to attempt to maximize viewership, and all he's really done is piss off the people who see it for what it is.

If you really want to maximize viewership, you first got to explain the game to people.  It's an elegant game, but since its such a fluid game its hard for people to catch the nuances of it.  Since there won't be any football this fall, seems to me the perfect time to teach the populace would be to schedule a good bit of pre-season games on Sunday, and 30 minutes before the puck drops, just go over the rules (old and new) for the people watching at home.  I know it's kinda hard to set things up like they do on the NFL pregame shows because it is so fast, but make the effort.  There's enough physical contact in a hockey game to get the people who love seeing linebackers rip the heads off of running backs excited.  Every time there's a bone crushing check, put it up in the picture and picture window and show the replay a couple of times.  There's plenty of ways to make Hockey appeal to the shortened attention span of the modern sports fan, (and no doubling the size of the goals is not even an option) but a lot of the issue that I come across is that people just don't understand the game.  Help them understand it, and it will thrive.

[Fedman NCC-3758]

Just a bunch of punks and thugs who found a convenient excuse to cause mayhem and destroy private property.

[762_XC]

You can't expect football fans to learn to appreciate the glorious sport of hockey. They are used to the game trudging along at a plodding pace , so slow in fact that the clock actually has to run down between plays to make the game end at some point within the span of a day. In the time it takes them to nosh on their hot wings and swig their Budweiser, they will already have missed the brilliant breakout pass that results in a 2-on-1 goal.

[Lieutenant_Q]

5 seconds left on the kill, back to the point for a DRIVE!  Blocked down in front, and knifed back out to center.  Datsyuk is out of the box! In all alone! Backhand! Deke! SHOOT! SCOOOOOOOORRRRRREEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Is it Hockey season yet?  My blood got pumping just writing that.

[Nemesis]

nd deservedly so.  I wish the man would go back to Basketball

I'm not a sports fan but I must admit that basketball annoys me.  The rules were setup before they started recruiting all these "basketball mutants" who just drop the ball in the net.  I say raise the net 5' and then watch the number of the "mutants" who get dropped off the teams as height stops being the dominant factor in who is "good" at basketball.

[Age]

nd deservedly so.  I wish the man would go back to Basketball

I'm not a sports fan but I must admit that basketball annoys me.  The rules were setup before they started recruiting all these "basketball mutants" who just drop the ball in the net.  I say raise the net 5' and then watch the number of the "mutants" who get dropped off the teams as height stops being the dominant factor in who is "good" at basketball.

I wouldn't as Basketball was my second team sport I could play in with the net raised 5 more feet it would be hard to do a slam dunk.those mutant basketballs players their knees wear out faster from being that height.

[Nemesis]

I wouldn't as Basketball was my second team sport I could play in with the net raised 5 more feet it would be hard to do a slam dunk.those mutant basketballs players their knees wear out faster from being that height.

I'd only raise it that far for the so called professionals (the basket ball mutants).  Right now every  pro player can do the slam dunk easily.  In amateur play most players can't or have to really jump and reach to do so.  A very big difference.  Raising the net for the Pro puts back the requirements to really be able to shoot the basket rather than just drop the ball through.  It would also likely elimanate the 3 digit scores. 

[Age]

I wouldn't as Basketball was my second team sport I could play in with the net raised 5 more feet it would be hard to do a slam dunk.those mutant basketballs players their knees wear out faster from being that height.

I'd only raise it that far for the so called professionals (the basket ball mutants).  Right now every  pro player can do the slam dunk easily.  In amateur play most players can't or have to really jump and reach to do so.  A very big difference.  Raising the net for the Pro puts back the requirements to really be able to shoot the basket rather than just drop the ball through.  It would also likely elimanate the 3 digit scores. 

You are also forgetting high school and college basketball as they use NBA rules and the basket must be set at xx height.We and the US both use NBA rules in our collegiate basketball programs.You raise it for high schoolers knees will begin to break down.

[Capt. Mike]

Heh heh   

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