Thought this needed it's own thread so I could get more responses
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Originally Posted by triggrman
Bradyfive and I were talking the other day and decided it's harder to be a fan of hockey in the south. We have to work to get our information since the local media sucks, we have to take heat from the non hockey fans we work with and then take heat from the holier than though northern fans at places like this and still stay true to hockey. We're like the Eminem of the hockey world, as good as we may be we'll never excepted by our own people or anyone else.
I've played hockey for as long as I can remember, well before the Predators and remember the years of trying to find any game around town to play even if it meant driving to BFE to play inline in a crappy rink with wooden boards that rattled when you skated over them, or on tennis courts that had huge cracks that would grab your stick or parking lots with puck patrol set-up. Even today, with only 4 sheets of ice, I can't even get my brother a spot on my ice team until someone quits (no one quits, even a guy that is going to miss the season is paying his fee to keep his roster spot, the league isn't excepting new players this season and are in fact cutting 140 players from the adult league because the sport has grown faster than the rinks.
So yeah up north were you can roll out of bed on Saturday, read your hockey news from your local paper, listen to hockey talk on the radio on the way to the rink for the Saturday afternoon game you just decided to go play in is easy. Southern fans have to work for our passion.
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