Topkatz
Registered User
- Jul 23, 2010
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Dear Chris Pronger,
Before 2005 I never followed hockey.
One night during that year a young fellow from the UK was having trouble sleeping and decided to flick on the bedroom tv for a little while before inevitability falling asleep. Nothing was on the main four 'terrestrial' channels. So he tried channel 5. Now the majority of you will have no idea what that is so I will explain.
Channel 5 was a pretty new channel in relation to the other 4. It was launched in 1995 or thereabouts. And it was terrible. Full of low budget trash and international (American) tv series that had been rejected by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and SKY. For at least 5 years you could barely get a signal of the channel if you were using an aerial that was sitting on top of your tv. And even when they eventually boosted the signal you still had to position the aerial in an abnormal position that meant you could only get channel 5 and nothing else. Basically no one ever said they liked channel 5.
Then it happened. An ice hockey game! Oh cool I remember playing NHL 99 with friends on PlayStation as the Dallas Stars and I've been to a few Belfast Giants games. It was the Stanley Cup Final. That must be their Champions League final right? Interesting. I was trying to work out what was going on on my slightly fuzzy picture. Then Pronger got the puck. Wow that guy is huge I thought to myself, and he's so much better than everyone else he's completely dictating the play. I waited the rest of the game for him to get the puck. Anyway, Pisani scored the winner and everyone went mental. I enjoyed this a lot so from that moment on I decided I was an Oilers fan. Because of Chris Pronger.
The next day i did some research on the team. You see the Oilers have a lot of parallels with my favourite soccer team, Liverpool which I followed religiously. Amazing in the 80s, a rich storied history, both played in reputably unfashionable working class cities, fans were highly regarded as knowledgeable about the game.... But ultimately both were living in the shadow of past achievements but had been really successful that year despite being big underdogs. Liverpool won their final though but nevermind! This further formed my desire to be a fan because I knew these circumstances just too well.
Now... i have McDavid (YES YES) but am stuck with the seemingly never ending depression of underachievment leading to feelings of apathy and pointlessness. I can not change teams because I would consider myself a fraud. This is my curse that I am stuck with. Right now because i can not sleep I am writing satirical hate mail through my phone a website at 3 a.m to a guy who could not care less about the Oilers and will never read it. Additionally this thread will probably be quickly locked because of some beurcratic reason of maintaining quality. Because of Chris Pronger.
So screw you Chris! You terrible person. You left me when I needed you most.
And sort yourselves out Oilers. Now.
I feel better now. Maybe i gave someone a laugh somewhere. Cool story bro! Goodnight
Before 2005 I never followed hockey.
One night during that year a young fellow from the UK was having trouble sleeping and decided to flick on the bedroom tv for a little while before inevitability falling asleep. Nothing was on the main four 'terrestrial' channels. So he tried channel 5. Now the majority of you will have no idea what that is so I will explain.
Channel 5 was a pretty new channel in relation to the other 4. It was launched in 1995 or thereabouts. And it was terrible. Full of low budget trash and international (American) tv series that had been rejected by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and SKY. For at least 5 years you could barely get a signal of the channel if you were using an aerial that was sitting on top of your tv. And even when they eventually boosted the signal you still had to position the aerial in an abnormal position that meant you could only get channel 5 and nothing else. Basically no one ever said they liked channel 5.
Then it happened. An ice hockey game! Oh cool I remember playing NHL 99 with friends on PlayStation as the Dallas Stars and I've been to a few Belfast Giants games. It was the Stanley Cup Final. That must be their Champions League final right? Interesting. I was trying to work out what was going on on my slightly fuzzy picture. Then Pronger got the puck. Wow that guy is huge I thought to myself, and he's so much better than everyone else he's completely dictating the play. I waited the rest of the game for him to get the puck. Anyway, Pisani scored the winner and everyone went mental. I enjoyed this a lot so from that moment on I decided I was an Oilers fan. Because of Chris Pronger.
The next day i did some research on the team. You see the Oilers have a lot of parallels with my favourite soccer team, Liverpool which I followed religiously. Amazing in the 80s, a rich storied history, both played in reputably unfashionable working class cities, fans were highly regarded as knowledgeable about the game.... But ultimately both were living in the shadow of past achievements but had been really successful that year despite being big underdogs. Liverpool won their final though but nevermind! This further formed my desire to be a fan because I knew these circumstances just too well.
Now... i have McDavid (YES YES) but am stuck with the seemingly never ending depression of underachievment leading to feelings of apathy and pointlessness. I can not change teams because I would consider myself a fraud. This is my curse that I am stuck with. Right now because i can not sleep I am writing satirical hate mail through my phone a website at 3 a.m to a guy who could not care less about the Oilers and will never read it. Additionally this thread will probably be quickly locked because of some beurcratic reason of maintaining quality. Because of Chris Pronger.
So screw you Chris! You terrible person. You left me when I needed you most.
And sort yourselves out Oilers. Now.
I feel better now. Maybe i gave someone a laugh somewhere. Cool story bro! Goodnight