there.
i said it.
i've been quietly saying it for weeks now, but there is no point pretending it's going to play out any other way (though i'll be more than happy to be wrong !!): the hated rival vancouver canucks are going to win the 2011 stanley cup.
but here's why it upsets me the most: i don't like canucks fans. i used to say "i don't like canucks fans... save for the select few of my pals who are NOT bullies about it and THOSE guys are AWESOME and i'm honestly happy for them," when the orcas won.... but then there was that one night where that one friend said some unnecessarily vicious and deplorable words following my congratulatory message post-OT victory v. chicago... and everything changed.
i hardly slept that night.
i kept waking up with his comments in my head and i couldn't believe they were ever even imagined, much less stated, by such an upstanding dude... amazing what a few too many pints and a first round victory can do... (apologies have since been offered and accepted, cause i know he's an incredible guy, but i fear there will always be lingering sadness, on my part, that the incident even occurred).
so here are the ground rules. let's try to follow them, mmkay ?
1. flames fans and canucks fans will never agree on things NHL, so let's acknowledge that we are and will always be enemies and move on.
2. FRIENDLY gloating/ribbing/goading is allowed, VICIOUS gloating/ribbing/goading (such as that which appears on theo fleury's twitter) is embarassing and reprehensible. nobody needs to make fun of sexual abuse, child abuse, or drug/alcohol abuse (EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES), and straight up: nobody likes a braggart....
3. jealousy will occur naturally and unabashedly when one's hated rival is on the brink of a championship. let's just be respectful about it.
4. the canucks are going to win the cup. it's inevitable. i think we can all agree on this, so let's allow our canuck fan friends to be HUMBLY proud (almost lost in R1G7OT), and excessively happy. we, as flames fans, can sit back and dream about tim erixon and max reinhart....
5. canada's team IS team canada.
i remember when the flames beat the canucks in the '04 playoffs, 1st round, OT (i skipped the pixies live show at mac hall to watch game 7). my reaction to the massive victory wasn't "screw you canucks fans !" it was "OMG i'm SO excited, let's go somewhere i can take my shirt off and spend 45 minutes driving a single block !!!"**
good ? yeah ? now let's just all get along, shall we ?
#gobolts.
:)
**i'm paraphrasing cause i don't remember my exact thoughts, but it was something along that line i'm sure cause that's what some girls did.... more likely i was just repeating "HOLY SHIT WE FUCKING WON !!!" over & over in a trance-like state.
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There are so many Canucks fans in my life — family and friends and coworkers and neighbours and and and — that I can't get away with saying "I hate Canucks fans" quite as loudly as I'd like. I'm going with "I can't talk about anything hockey-related with Canucks fans without losing my mind." They never get the implication — that they are insane and rabid and completely out of bounds a lot of the time — so it's like a double insult ;)
Which is to say: I hear ya. There are some fan bases that I would love to see rewarded with a Cup win. To say that the Canucks are not one of them is a massive understatement.
(Sorry about your friend.)
nashville.
you get my drift.
oh, i think nbc/nhl will have something to say about vancouver winning. i am sure they are already pissed that they have to show a canadian team on their network.
"5. canada's team IS team canada."
That's what I've been telling people who are shocked to hear me say I'm cheering for the Bruins. The are more "good Canadian boys" on the Bruins than the nucks anyway.
Also, these are the greatest rules written by a Canadian since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Still, hope you are wrong about #4...
hey by the way, how was that cup?? I would really like to know more about it, if you can fill me in with information I would appreciate it! thanks
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