Vancouver 2010 Olympic Security Plans

[A Black Falcon]

well, after the Russia v. Czech Republic game they did have a Miracle on Ice retrospective; they certainly should have, given that Al Michaels, who announced that game in 1980, is their 1-6pm/3-5pm host... it was with him, three people who were on the team, and footage of the game.

I remember them promoting that yesterday, so that they were advertising. But they didn't promote the USA v. Canada game; they haven't promoted much that they put on the cable channels on NBC, actually, for some reason. It does seem like a lost opportunity to get more people to watch them... they did a little earlier on in the games, but I don't think I've seen anything for a while now.

The United States is one sports-crazy country, and perhaps the most famous moment in the history of American sports took place on a hockey rink - why can't more Americans get behind hockey????

It's that lame sport Canadians like... well, that and that in a lot of the country there isn't ice long enough to make people actually think of skating, so why should a winter sport be natural for them? That's why ice hockey is popular in New England, Michigan, etc, there's snow and ice in the northern US. But the southern and southwestern US, where a lot of people live, not so much. That's the best answer I think. Makes sense too, for sure. Yeah, now we can make indoor stadiums, and there are NHL teams in the southern US, but without much snow and ice outside there's naturally a lot less interest in winter sports.