Friday, March 7, 2014

Sled Hockey: It Might Actually Be Harder Than Screwing the Girl Who Ordered the Pizza

Admit it. You watch porn. Most people watch some form of scantily clad, unclad or sweat clad humans. While I'm always curious about what kinda porn people like, I really don't wanna know why they like it. I'm always afraid the word "uncle" will come up in the conversation and I'll puke a cocktail onion across the room and knock out someone's contact lens.
I can tell you this about porn: You will never be hung like Ron Jeremy, and you will more than likely never get paid to have sex unless you and your significant other both get assigned to the curly fry station at a really dark Arby's.  
Ever watch sled hockey ? I'll bet you haven't. Very few people watch sled hockey.
The guys who compete in sled hockey are guys who have overcome not having the "right equipment" to play standing hockey (that's what sled hockey players call it) and actually take part in the sport as opposed to just sitting around with a sock full of hand lotion wishing they could.
{Right here it would be real easy for me to do some schmaltz waltz about "inspiration" which sportswriters like Rick Reilly and that other guy are famous for, but I'm not gonna. You don't need a gauzy filter, a Bruce Hornsby soundtrack and a backstory--as heroic as some of these guys have been}. Sports don't always have to be for inspiration, they're mostly just a form of entertainment, right ? And this shit is entertaining:

You can watch some games and other events like curling and biathlon live here http://www.youtube.com/user/ParalympicSportTV and CBC will also have some live sled hockey on the web.
The US has a good chance to compete for a medal, something their "able-bodied", weak minded and poorly coached counterparts were incapable of doing. Check it out. You'll be entertained, you won't be embarrassed by it when your roommate walks in, and someday you might get a chance to do it too.

2 comments:

  1. its good to check into worlds other people live in, sometimes because of sad things and sometimes because of good. i was just watching sheffield v oxford bike racing on mountain bikes around a tennis court sized dirt track. i dont know why i was watching it. but it was hilarious. its two on two and they block for their faster rider so each team has a chunk. theyre all going to end up as barristers and what not, but for shit twenty five heats in one day of four lap races it got brutal.

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  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_speedway

    UP HORSPATH!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwX_0uNsbQ

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