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Stomping Tom, canuck singer from the east coast, called Stomping because club managers made him put down a stomping board, he used his foot as a drum. Wore a hole in the floor after a couple of nights. This is our 2nd national anthem. So a bit of culture here, this is high class stuff, what we do when we are not at the opera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWxErEbQkY&feature=related
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That's a roller! Beats any damned Yankee song about 'football' (which it isn't - I mean US 'football' is not football at all but a padded version of what real men call 'rugby', sort of). Of course, to the Yanks, English football is called 'soccer'  Heck! Who invented that game? The Brits! So why can't the Yanks accept the name  Thank God for Canada!  BTW, the Canucks are putting on a MARVELOUS Winter Olympics, as if anyone hasn't noticed....
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We love you too, Sam. Don S.
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That was a hoot John. Here's American football as explained by Andy Griffith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8Jim
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Ha ha ha! Thanks for that, Jim! ROFLOL!!! Here's Cricket Though I doubt the Yanks will understand this it is fairly simply explained and at a very slooow tempo (such as cricket is) Even my Austrian sponsor/gf was able to understand it. OTOH, the Yanks may not...
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"Here's Cricket"
That was hilarious Sam.
I think I know now why I never played Cricket, as I'd probably be the 'odd man out', even when I was 'in'. :>)
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Where are you Jim and what nationality? It is not in your profile (sadly)
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Round one: 5 / 3
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Yo Scott,
I know we still have a long way to go but maybe we should start thinking about changing the name of that sport, you know to something more, well . . . more American.  
Just kidding guys, in actuality we were extremely fortunate to win one from the mighty Canadians that is unless they are not as good as the hype. And to think our team even understood the game at all, given it is played at such a fast pace also amazes me.
Personally I think they are as good as their press, from what I understand they invented the game. But hey this is the only time I even watch or care about hockey, or as my friend from Boston calls it “Hacky” so admittedly I know very little and care even less about this cold weather sport. But like most around the globe I like to see a win for the hard working athletes and of course for one's country pride.
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The first win since 1960 or something.
The main difference that starts to show now is the big money universities in the US give as scholarships. Here, no matter how good you are it's basically 0 with a few minor exceptions. You an give every 2nd year student on the football team 500 bucks, but that's everyone. So you now see a pretty good crop of Americans playing at higher levels than ever. Our local Junior A team, from which the best players go directly to the NHL, has a new almost 10,000 seat arena sold out for 2 games a week. Often American kids take 3 years scholarship in the US, and leave school to spend a year or two knowing they will make millions the second they are eligible for the draft.
Ten years ago our local team was 100 percent Canadian. It is about 10 percent now. And for years they wouldn't let pros into the NHL and the Russians were considered Amateurs so they won all the time. Yet they were full time.
Like the Austrians, who have huge chains of state run schools where education is free and if you look like a skiier you go to boarding school from age 6 or so and it is run like a military camp. So they win most of the skiing. Here it's pot smokin dopers do the snowboard thing. And rich kids ski for fun, like my nephews where mom and dad are both Doctors and they just hire a tutor, and go for 3 weeks to the Alps, or Aspen.
Women's hockey is even more skewed, because 99 percent of the American and Canadian teams are from American Universities.
Academic awards here on based on performance. My oldest son is starting the last stages of his thesis, he's on year 11 of his Phd. So far he's received almost 200k in grants. The American Philosophical Society just gave him 15k US for research in Anthropology. He was a pretty good hockey player, and I'd be he would have got a hockey scholarship in the US, however he broke his arm at the shoulder 'ball' right off clean and he's pretty bad with that arm 9 years later. Never play volleyball on a hockey rink because the sliding is fun. He used to drive by and get me to tie his shoes on his way to the university. LOL.
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One winter, back in the mid 50's, one of the parents in the neighborhood made a fine rink for us kids. We played hockey till our parents came and dragged us home. There were kids of all ages every night on that rink, but us younger, and smaller kids, had a big advantage over the bigger ones; there was a clothes line right through the middle of the rink, about 5 feet above the ice. Many a tall, lanky skater brought up with that clothes line under his chin; everybody knew it was there, but with the puck on your stick, it was everything be damned, and off to the races.
We never had skates that fit, but we were fine when our feet went numb from the cold. Mother would have a pan of water for our feet when we got in. The howls of pain could be heard all over as the feeling returned.
That is our kulture.
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From my first winter to the day I left home Dad always built a rink in the back yard. And we had lights. Every kid from blocks around came over to play.
My wife knows my Mother as 83 and totally crippled with arthritis, gets up for an hour a day. I mentioned that she and Dad used to skate at the Ilderton Arena when they still heated with woodstoves in the 50's and that both were good skaters she was quite surprised. But Mom retired when she was 52,, the arthritis was too bad then, same age I retired at, for the same reason.
I quit skating the same year too. And the Fire Department hockey team lost a player.
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