Oh, Canada?
Top of Grey Cup breaks off shortly after B.C. Lions are presented with trophy
- CBC.ca
What a wonderful metaphor for Canada's ailing 'professional' football league. After a mind- and body-numbing sub-zero degree evening game in Winnipeg's uncovered stadium, Earl Grey's cup was broken cleanly in two by an overzealous guard who probably moonlights as a coal miner in some prairie town of 200 people.
The trophy snapped at the base of the 'cup' separating the original trophy from the rings engraved with 97 years of winners; effectively severing the history of the game from what it has become - a low-budget advertising opportunity for Canadian insurance brokers. And rather than a heartfelt apology from the goon that did it, we get the following tidbit of intelligence: "they'll put it back together and we'll go get drunk out of it." Great... thanks Bates, what's next? Are you going to go streaking through the quad?
The CFL and I have had a falling out over the last decade. Gone are the weekend trips to Ivor Wynne Stadium with friends, the coveted tickets for the first Argo/Ti-Cat game of the season and the threadbare jersey worn to countless bars well into the winter months. It has been replaced with a kind of pity for a piece of Canadian history that is now nearing extinction.
What sporting institutions are we left with? Hockey is slowly migrating south along with our fresh water and lumber and all we get in return is Everybody Loves Raymond and semi-automatic weapons. We invented basketball but can't keep even 2 teams within our borders, Lacrosse never really caught on and our Olympic snowboarders almost get stripped of their medals for performance-enhancing marijuana.
I'm giving up sports and devoting the rest of my energy to prolonging the remnants of Canadian cultural independence: back bacon, the 'ou', democracy, dog sleds and the igloos in which we all live.
- CBC.ca
What a wonderful metaphor for Canada's ailing 'professional' football league. After a mind- and body-numbing sub-zero degree evening game in Winnipeg's uncovered stadium, Earl Grey's cup was broken cleanly in two by an overzealous guard who probably moonlights as a coal miner in some prairie town of 200 people.
The trophy snapped at the base of the 'cup' separating the original trophy from the rings engraved with 97 years of winners; effectively severing the history of the game from what it has become - a low-budget advertising opportunity for Canadian insurance brokers. And rather than a heartfelt apology from the goon that did it, we get the following tidbit of intelligence: "they'll put it back together and we'll go get drunk out of it." Great... thanks Bates, what's next? Are you going to go streaking through the quad?
The CFL and I have had a falling out over the last decade. Gone are the weekend trips to Ivor Wynne Stadium with friends, the coveted tickets for the first Argo/Ti-Cat game of the season and the threadbare jersey worn to countless bars well into the winter months. It has been replaced with a kind of pity for a piece of Canadian history that is now nearing extinction.
What sporting institutions are we left with? Hockey is slowly migrating south along with our fresh water and lumber and all we get in return is Everybody Loves Raymond and semi-automatic weapons. We invented basketball but can't keep even 2 teams within our borders, Lacrosse never really caught on and our Olympic snowboarders almost get stripped of their medals for performance-enhancing marijuana.
I'm giving up sports and devoting the rest of my energy to prolonging the remnants of Canadian cultural independence: back bacon, the 'ou', democracy, dog sleds and the igloos in which we all live.
posted by brn at 14:36
4 Comments:
Hear hear. That was one of the worst games i've seen. I've always wanted to get into CFL but then I watch a game and see that it is a pale comparison to even a high schol football game from the deep south.
I do appreciate that the players moonlight as car waxers and such, though.
Haha Great post.
The CFL is definitely on its last legs. And it's not a wonder considering how bad the football is.
Maybe Curling will really take off this year.
Why don't u fags move to texas if u like american football so much?
uhhh cause then we'd have to live in Texas...
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