Good Job Canada!

Mar 26

Posted by matt in MAAAADDD, are you kidding me?, bazinga!, family | 3 Comments

Okay.  Some I love my country.  I’ve even bet on my allegiance (still owe this guy thought :S).  But I have also been outspoken that Canada’s reputation for…sucking, does not go undeserved. Well, we’ve done it again.  In addition to sub-par Superbowl commercials, an absence of Chipotle’s and a commitment to all sports that require a stick, skates and fighting…we have once again displayed our shortcomings.

Being the “Old Man” that I am, I went to bed last night @ 10:30.  I received a text this morning from my brother saying: “Are you up, are you watching right now?”  This could only mean one thing, something crazy happened last night post-me going to bed in the NCAA game.  So, being a Canadian, I go straight to tsn.ca to find out what happened.  Here’s what I saw:
You could imagine my surprise when the only mention of any NCAA event (last night there were 4 games) is a byline that reads “March Madness Roundup: Kansas State captures memorable win.”  ARE YOU KIDDING ME!  I know that the NCAA Tourney is a bigger deal in the U.S, but (what I found out later) it was a double-overtime photo finish…and….nothing. You could imagine my confusion when trying to figure out what my brother was referring too.  I decided to shoot over to espn.com just to see:

Full front page coverage and video of the game, and 2 of the 4 sub stories about other NCAA games.  For some reason, TSN believed that Montreal (6th place) beating Florida (12th place) in an NHL game last night somehow deserved the top line.  From this I can draw one of three conclusions.

1) TSN hires only hacks, that know nothing about sports
2) A 6th place team beating a 12th place team in hockey is multiples more exciting than a double overtime, winner moves on college basketball game
3) Canada is just really…that bad.

I think it’s a tie between 1 & 3.  On another note, American’s now are on a path to socialized medicine and probably socialism itself.  Maybe having crappy sports coverage is a socialism symptom.  That probably wasn’t in the Pro’s and Con’s that Obama listed when pitching the bill…

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3 Responses to “Good Job Canada!”

  1. Todd D

    Mar 26th, 2010

    I am just as frustrated when traveling south of the border to find NHL games relegated to that little sub-story.

    Anyway…basketball isn’t that great. Watch the last 2 minutes and you have the whole game right there. So boring is the NBA game that they have to play music and entertain in the stands DURING THE GAME! Sheesh.

    You should probably move.

    By the way, nice to see you this week, Matt.

  2. Yana P

    Mar 27th, 2010

    http://www.google.ca/search?q=chipotle+in+Toronto&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

    Eaten there once, it was pretty comparable to the ones in the US.

  3. Chris

    Mar 28th, 2010

    I think it’s also because Sportsnet and The Score are the networks showing March Madness games.


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