So your team won the big game and you’re excited. Why are you honking your horn? Why are you out, listening to the game on the radio in your car if you’re so obsessed over it? Shouldn’t you be at the game, or watching it on TV? At the very least, you shouldn’t be mobile, because if I know one thing about being Canadian, it’s that when there’s a big hockey game on, it’s completely dead outside. Imagine tumbleweed blowing down the streets. You could drive a tank through town and no one would notice.
For two hours last night, I had to listen to people honking their horns, solo and in concert. People would drive by each other and see a similar Canucks flag on the top of their car and honk like they’re having a wedding. This isn’t even in Vancouver, home to the Canucks. This is three towns away.
This wasn’t even the Stanley Cup, this was one of the final games for the Stanley Cup. Meaning: the excitement will get larger should they actually win the Stanley Cup.
I remember the last time Vancouver was in this situation, they lost the final game, and there was a riot. People were being shot with rubber bullets in the streets by riot police. They were smashing store fronts and burning shit.
One thing is true of Vancouver, which is true of most places, that people go apeshit when their town gets any kind of honour or mention. I’ve read front page articles from the Vancouver Province about the city getting some kind of ranking from some previously unheard of archive saying it’s the most liveable city, blah, blah, blah. When a city like Vancouver wins a big game, which happens to be the favourite local sport, they go completely insane. It’ll be like the Berlin Wall coming down.
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