Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: texasmom on March 01, 2007, 04:26:45 PM
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States that have a southern coastal beach shouldn't have an ice hockey team. Period.
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dallas is slight drive to the beach.
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Dallas may be a little bit away from the beach, but it's in a state where they ("we," I guess I should be saying) should play beach volleyball instead of ice hockey. BOOOO!!!
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Ice hockey? ICE HOCKEY?!? Don't ever call it that in front of a Canadian unless you want a demonstration of the old stick through the head trick (tm Dave Brown)...or so I've heard anyway. "Ice" in the previous phrase is unnecessary. It's kind of like saying water swimming. It might also suggest to the uninitiated that field hockey is a legitimate activity or something other than heresy.
Personally I was horrified when the North Stars moved to Texas, but hockey in southern states is no longer just a novelty. Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville, Phoenix, 2 teams in Florida, 3 teams in California...apparently its here, or rather, there to stay. I guess it's a good thing, growing the sport and all but it does seem a bit odd if you stop and think about it. But not too odd. After all hockey is a fast, hard hitting, manly sport (not that women can't or don't play). You can't make me believe that the average southern sports fan would rather watch a boring wussie game like volleyball.
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The Nashville Predators definitely aren't out of place here in Tennessee. Since they've come in youth hockey programs have been springing up all over. Now with the way they're playing this year it's become very popular and part of our landscape.
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when we got our IHL now AHL team here in Houston more leagues surfaced and even some of the highs chools have club teams. seems to be more a youth thing like soccer here, when they get to high school it's all football.
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Originally posted by texasmom
States that have a southern coastal beach shouldn't have an ice hockey team. Period.
Hockey is a great sport enjoyed by thousands of Stars fans who would more than disagree with you.
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Originally posted by DblTrubl
You can't make me believe that the average southern sports fan would rather watch a boring wussie game like volleyball.
They wouldnt, we love our hockey.
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if it's womens volleyball i'll watch.
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lol I was waiting for someone to say that!
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WTF is hockey????