I got my haircut at the Pittsburgh Hair Company in Dormont today, my usual place. It's close (walking distance), cheap, and the women there are pleasantly chatty. Usually the conversation is about the weather, vacations, kids, local happenings. But today it was hockey -- rhapsodizing about Crosby's passing ("It's even more amazing when you see it for real") and why Fleury's butterfly-style of goaltending is preferred, why the line of Foo, Bar and Baz will gel soon, and so on.
And I was the only guy in the place and don't know squat about hockey. Cool.
(Actually, this is probably just a 'generic northeast city moment', but whatever...)
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Re:Hockey
lachoy on 2005-10-29T01:45:21
Oddly, there's no correlation between how crazy fans are about a team and the team's performance...Re:Hockey
ziggy on 2005-10-31T19:22:15
Yep. A true Philadelphia fan (1) always roots for the home team, (2) believes they're all a bunch of bums (3) up to and including the moment when they win the championship, (4) except for that amazing lineup that played a few decades ago -- they were the best team in $sport ever to grace the game.Re:Hockey
lachoy on 2005-11-01T00:29:19
Except for (2) that sounds a lot like Steelers fans. The whole team isn't known as a bum, maybe up to a handful of choice players, and those are usually limited to defensive backs, the quarterback and maybe a wide receiver.
