ICE HOCKEY

Yep, it's almost time for hockey season to start up. And I'm ready.

Long time reader(s) know my strong feelings about the sport. How I have to change batteries in my remote. To pass right on through all the NHL games avoiding them at all cost.

I don't mean not to like hockey. I just don't. Incredible athletes who perform great athletic moves at full speed on ice. What's not to like? I don't know. I just don't like it.

Some of my friends are huge fans. I'm even friends with a former owner of an NHL team and a Hall of Fame coach. Not that the coach and I are close friends, but I believe he's still a coach in the league--Scottie Bowman. And he has tried to get me excited about the sport he loves. It's just not there for me.

But they have one of the coolest traditions. When a player scores three goals in one game, it's the hat trick. All kinds of hats get thrown out onto the ice. One more. But I can't remember when it's done. Maybe playoffs. They throw a live octopus onto the ice.

If they did that more often. And maybe threw them at a player who had messed up, then maybe I'd like it more. Naugh. Just kidding. Even that wouldn't do it for me.