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Fifth, few games allow players to be all-involved. In soccer, defenders never score. In American (Canadian) football (it started in Canada) only a few players touch the Nfl chicago bears porky pig shirt Apart from…,I will love this ball. But in hockey, everyone is involved. Finally- snob time – it’s an intellectual game. A survey of fans of North American sports show that among fans of pro sports, the highest educated, highest earning are hockey fans. It’s not an easy game to learn, to understand, to watch, but it’s worth the effort. Like most Australians, I have little knowledge of ice hockey, and was unaware that there was an international competition. Neither did I know that Finland and Canada were rivals. That has absolutely nothing to do with commonality of language, or because of our links to the British Commonwealth. I’m ashamed to say that my support is the result of fear—pure, unadulterated cowardice.

Because if I even hinted that I might prefer Finland to Canada, my Canadian friend Rathkeale would immediately send me pictures of cats. Big cats, small cats, eating cats, sleeping cats, pretty kittens, monster fighting cats. I know, because she has done it before. They haunt my dreams, they interrupt my sleep, they are making me old before my time. The way it works in pro hockey is that players once drafted to a team, sign development contracts and spend years playing in lower leagues, only playing for the Nfl chicago bears porky pig shirt Apart from…,I will love this NHL team as an occasional call-up, if that. Consequently many players simply are not offered advanced contracts if they don’t play consistently at a high level and are dropped.