"Sport is part of culture and a good way to learn about another country… To discover why people are so passionate about it, it's like, 'Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are,' " he said.
This is actually a good perspective. They aren't wrong. Americans have football or baseball.
In addition to the class, Bauer has launched an essay contest asking the question, "Are the Montreal Canadiens a religion?"
I would like to read some of those essays and the reasoning behind their opinions.
When we learned about the 100th anniversary, we thought it was a good time to talk about the relationship between sport and religion,
never honestly thought there would be a connection between sports and religion. Maybe dedication and the worshiping of a player/sport?
Therewere shouts, invective, a rumbling in the Forum. The tear gascame 30 seconds later.
Scary for the people not involved and just wanted to be there for a good time.
An instant after the slap, Orlando spun the fan aroundand socked him in the jaw, scattering teeth like jujubes.
Sounds like karma to me.
No athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal, my home
shows true dedication
“If they hadn’t pampered Maurice Richard, built him up as a hero until he felt he was bigger than hockey itself, this wouldn’t have happened.
athletes have way too much influence.
Boston police come to the locker room. They want to arrest Richard for assault, to throw him in jail for the night. Montreal coach Dick Irvin blocks the entry to the Canadiens’ dressing room.
Police should have arrested the coach for interfering!
The punishment is worse for Richard. Udvari kicks him out of the game
that doesn't even seem like that would be enough of a punishment.
Then Richard snatches a stick from the ice and swings it wildly at Laycoe. He cuts him below the eye.
The use of their sticks as weapons is scary, the damage they could do with those is endless.
Laycoe, the Bruins forward had nailed Richard in the first period. He served two minutes for charging. But the hit lit the fuse of Richard’s infamous temper.
I understand being competitive for the sport and having a love of the sport but there comes a point where it goes to far.
However, nothing may have happened if Campbell hadn't made a tactical error — he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place
seems to me like he was instigating the problem.
The NHL was a provincial, parochial six-team affair in 1955, featuring barely over 100 players. Many of them hated each other with the type of passion only love can understand, as paleontologist Steven Jay Gould once observed of 1950s New York baseball.
This shows some pretty strong and serious feelings.
How Francophone players in the NHL, almost exclusively the property of the Montreal Canadiens, believed they were more harshly treated by league president Clarence Campbell — especially Richard — when it came time to dish out suspensions and fines.
Seems like this would cause some pretty serious tension.