Hockey fans are tough … too tough
The San Antonio Rampage cannot lose another game this season.
At the very least, no players on the team can miss any games because of injury. Not after a five-year-old took a puck to the head at one of their games, left to receive staples in his head, and returned to watch the Rampage (an AHL team) win in overtime.
Oh, and to really drive the point home, he didn’t bother to change his bloody shirt before coming back.
This is, obviously, insane.
But it’s hockey, right? This is the type of story that builds the legend of the sport’s community. The players play through ridiculous ailments, like broken limbs or severed testicles. The fans take so much damn pride in this, that they’ll fight you if you dare try and compare the toughness of any other type of athlete.
A five-year-old, though? While he’s likely heard stories of toughness and of hockey players who persevere despite injury, there’s no way he fully understands them.
So the chances that this kid was simply mimicking his idols are low. Sure, it could be something his parents pushed, but that isn’t a very fun story. In fact, that would be a very sad story.
What we’re going to choose to believe is that this kid is so damn tough and loves sports so much that he made the decision on his own to forget about the gash in his head, and get back to a hockey game. Not because that’s what you’re supposed to do – it’s not – but because he’s tough as friggin’ nails.
Old people often lament the toughness of younger generations, or lack thereof. This is always horribly ironic, seeing that those same old people raised the younger generation.
But there will be no more lamenting.
No.
Now when we hear about how kids today just can’t hack it, we will point to our hero in San Antonio. We will point to him and he will shy away from the light, not because hockey thrives on humility, but because bright lights are bad for people with CTE.
Three Things to Read Today
Wage inequality based on gender? Shocking.
Despite them being our greatest and most pride inspiring international athletic team, U.S. Soccer treats the Women’s National Team like garbage compared to their male counterparts. Yesterday five stars from the team, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe and Becky Sauerbrunn alleged wage discrimination to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The fact that women in America are paid less than men of the same job is well documented . . . hopefully these women can carry the torch for changing that.
Things somehow have gotten worse in Knoxville
Head Tennessee football coach Butch Jones came under fire on behalf of a recent outing of his treatment of a former player. If you missed it, he admonished a football player for assisting a woman who had been allegedly raped by two other football players. The kid eventually transferred and the alleged rape went unprosecuted. And now we have evidence of how sloppily this case was handled--specifically the police called Jones to inform him of the investigation hours before the investigation truly began.
You’re going to the NCAA Tournament! . . . . .Psyyyych!
The South Carolina basketball team was one of the first four teams left out of the NCAA Tournament. It’s an unfortunate result made more unfortunate by the fact that a junior staffer at the NCAA accidentally texted a member of the South Carolina athletic staff erroneously notifying them that they had made the tournament.
Headlines
The Best of the Rest
The college slam dunk contest was last night, and things got . . . nutty.
“61 year-old, Oscar-nominated actor Denzel Washington has returned to college and won the AP Player of the Year award.”
Florida Panthers fans throw fake rats on the ice and it’s really weird
He’s not wrong
Ignore the awful pun, enjoy the perplexed goose
Stat of the Day
Draymond Green is the first player in NBA history with 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists, 100 steals and 100 blocks in a single season.
Tim Tebow wears hat, reveals Golf Digest writer sniffs own farts
The subtext in this is beautiful. Tim Tebow remains a free agent at this time.
NBA Scoreboard
Cleveland 107
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Brooklyn 87
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Orlando 114
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Indiana 94
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Chicago 103
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Houston 100
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New Orleans 101
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Denver 95
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Oklahoma City 119
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LA Clippers 117
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Portland 116
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Boston 109
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NHL Scoreboard
Buffalo 4
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Toronto 1
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Dallas 4
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Arizona 1
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Calgary 0
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Los Angeles 3
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Vancouver 4
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San Jose 2
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NY Islanders 4
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Columbus 3
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Pittsburgh 5
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Nashville 2
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Carolina 4
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NY Rangers 3
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Montreal 3
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Tampa Bay 0
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Florida 3
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New Jersey 2
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Ottawa 3
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Minnesota 2
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