TIME TO RANT! Misery Loves Company
We’re not going to go into the podcasting business any time soon, but adding an audio element to the site seemed like a fun idea, so Voila!
Now anyone can send rants, questions, complaints etc. All you need is a microphone on your PC and you’re in business - click the button and start talking.
Any good rants we’ll put on this site (unless you request that we keep your rant private). We can also broadcast your rant without mentioning your real name, if you request. So, if you’ve got a beef, SHARE! Misery loves company. Just keep it reasonably clean…!
Don’t know what to rant about? Whatever you want, but here are some questions that WE want answers to:
Whazzzup with Alex Auld (against Detroit)?
Why did Jaromir Jagr lose his mullet?
Have the Sedins ever switched jerseys for a game?
Why does Marc Crawford love his hair gel so much?
Is Avalanche GM Pierre Lacroix really the Devil?
How do Pittsburgh fans really feel about Sidney Crosby?
Will the Nashville Predators make it through the First Round of the Playoffs?
Will Vancouver even get into the Playoffs?
Would Jesus play hockey?
(Forget that last one. we’ve already got an email
telling us we’re being offensive again. Damn!)
(Whatever. You get the idea. Be creative!)
Note: We’ll put a permanent link to this audio feature on the sidebar.
tags: nhl, hockey, vancouver, canucks, audio, podcasting, rants, fans, odeo
March 20th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Ahh, I was thinking about adding one of those a week or so ago but I put it on the shelf and forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me!
March 20th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Matt: You’re welcome. But what on earth do your Wings-Fans readers have to rant about? Winning every damn game? Winning only by 4 goals? Winning for years and years without a break is starting to get boring?!
JKF: Thanks for the link - great pic! Good to know our sport is tops with our Christian friends. Our own personal mantra: “On the 8th Day, Vancouver Won the Stanley Cup.”
Amen.
March 20th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
The usual litany of Wings fan rants includes:
- complaints about the utter inadequacy of our goaltending (everyone else has a great #1 goalie. Who do we have? Osgood? He sucks - just ask the 1998 Playoffs. Legace? He’s a backup, right?)
- complaints about the team’s lack of toughness (usually accompanied by a shot at Holland for not doing his job and getting a beastly power forward and/or monster defenseman)
- questions about when the Wings are going to defend their teammates a la Sandy McCarthy-style (never)
- “Scotty Bowman wouldn’t play all these youngsters so much” or “What’s with all the geezers?”
- “Argh, they lost a month ago. They have no chance of winning the Cup now!”
- “Why don’t we have Peter Forsberg, Jaromir Jagr, and Martin Brodeur? We’re the rich team, right?”
- “We have to watch ANOTHER Wings/Blues/Jackets game?! Haven’t we played them 50 times already?”
- “Does Robert Lang know how to play hockey?”
- “When are they going to just rename to Norris to the Nick Lidstrom Annual Award?”
- “Pavel - shoot the bloody puck!”
and so on.
I haven’t gotten anything like that yet. But I’ve seen similar stuff over the years and I wouldn’t be surprised if I did. That or it’ll be stuff like “Henrik Zetterberg skated down the left wing on that play so he was that line’s left winger, not its center.”
March 21st, 2006 at 10:27 am
Now we’re getting the idea. Here’s one you forgot:
“Does the Stanley Cup come in any other colours? We’ve got so many silver ones…”
Ha!
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:47 am
Har har.
Yeah, I know, we’re the league’s spoiled brats. But I like being spoiled!
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