I am probably going to tee off a few people here with my few cents worth here. I have not watched Hockey Night In Canada for a long time. It is overlong and overproduced and even though I am more likely to agree with what Don has to say about something as opposed to disagreeing, his rants and schticks are that good part of the aforementioned issue. This latest incident is a good example of this sort of thing.
For the last number of winters, I’ve been content to watch the Sunday afternoon games on NBC as they just simply give you a game of the week straight and that’s it. It’s kind of nice to watch a little golf afterwards, since in February you ought to be enjoying winter to one extent or another but nice to be able to look forward to when you can tee it up in that near while later on, lol.
I’d dare anybody to be able to sit down at about 6:30 Saturday PM and watch about a half hour of gabbing and talking by CBC reporters and commentators and then the game and then Coach’s Corner and then the remainder of the first game and then another one (from the West) and that goes to about midnight or so. This in contrast to when I began watching (when Don was still coaching the Bruins, the Flames were still in Atlanta, Carter in the White House, Iran still had it Shah) when the game started at 8:00 and when on to about 10:30 or 11:00 and that was it, plus with ones like Dave Hodge or Brian McFarlane and others at that time.
But wouldn’t you concede that hockey is the NFL of Canada and is as much a cultural touchstone as a sport hence all the ancillary discussion, personalities and so forth?
ESPN, for example, has a cast of thousands talking football (and NBA) every day all day. It most certainly is excess (just as the NFL Network and other league-sponsored channels are) but somehow finds an audience and makes stars out of pundits and occasionally churls.
LMAO.
We get the hockey channel on our cable TV. I watch it for the scores and up dates etc etc. But in the last year or so it has become too PC for me. It makes the tennis channel look like hard core conservatives. Hockey in general has tended to be too PC for me in the last few years. It is another great game that the libs will screw up.