30 April 10
How You Know You're Not A Hockey Fan
I was tuning around on the AM broadcast band last night when I run across a match on 750 kHz — Vancouver was playing, I figure it must be the NHL playoffs. It’s late in the match. It sounds like they’re playing Portland. One player gets two yellow cards and is out of the match. There’s a free kick, a header, and three minutes of stoppage time. The cognitive dissonance is great. I didn’t know hockey was so much like soccer.
Afterwards I look up the teams. The Portland Timbers versus the Vancouver Whitecaps. Division 2 Professional League soccer (a temporary league, lasting just one season, we’re told). The broadcast was from the station KXL, in Portland, Oregon.
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Ha! I knew you couldn’t be listening to hockey when you mentioned yellow cards.
The biggest difference between hockey & soccer is hockey players take far fewer dives than soccer players do. If hockey players spent as much time lying around screaming “penalty,” they’d freeze. :-)
(uh, that second sentence wants to say “If hockey players spent as much time lying around screaming “penalty” as soccer players do… You probably figured that out.)