It is a blunder to regard hockey only as an ice game. It is more just than a match in the US. It is a beautiful combination of sports, ads, patriotism, rivalry, entertainment, and fanaticism.
I felt goosebumps every time I saw a stadium of folks briskly standing up and simultaneously reacting to a scored goal in harmony. (another goal was scored just when I was crafting this message) I saw them unconditionally root for their teams, donning symbolic jerseys, coalescing into a well-prepared group of family fans, and furiously yelling “no” for an unsuccessful attack.
It is an entire city that unites in support of their favorite teams. It is a battle of pride and neighborhoods. It is a patriotic war in which everyone stands up for a national anthem before a match kicks off. It is an entire stadium flooded with disparate cultures, ethnicities, and nationalities that share a single purpose - defending their respective teams.
We are viewing a match between the Sabres (New York) and the Flyers (Philadelphia). As of now, the score on a table board is 4:0 for the Flyers’ side. What makes it even more exciting is how the cold and heat are integrated at the same spot. The stadium is freaking cold, but every time visuals of fire come up on a big square scoreboard, the heat rushes to my seat directly from the heating machines.
What I grasped is unless you do something crazy or cringe, the cameraman won’t never show you on a screen. and some random woman yelled at me, saying i was rude. i literally went outside and came back and got called “disrespectful”, lol. no idea what actually happened.
@ozodiiy