God knows I've never been a hockey fan. However, I live in BC, and despite my loathing of hockey, I was still secretly pulling for the Nucks to win. Anything Canadian VS American is worth getting behind, no matter what it is. Sure, there's lots of Canadians on the Boston team, but still. The rioting that happened after is a complete embarrassment. After the Olympics, people from all over the world fell in love with BC and it's beauty. After the riots, some of those same people will get disgusted and will not want to come back until that memory has been erased.
There's been a lot of speculation that some American started the flipping of cars, and fires, and breaking glass, and such, and I don't really know if I believe that; rather, booze started it all. Sure the bars were forced to stop selling alcohol at 4pm, but that doesn't account for the bars that start selling it at 11am. Downtown Van was dead thanks to so many people taking the day off, mostly so they could drink all day and celebrate yet another exciting tournament for a Canadian team.
I do however, feel very bad for the Vancouver Police. Those poor bastards. Fucking hockey.
The good thing about all this is, the news will FINALLY stop making the first 30 minutes of each 60 minute broadcast all about hockey and will actually focus on NEWS, and the CFL will start up right away!!!
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