You guys would know I am an avid Hockey fan, Ice Hockey that is, from the early days of me catching glimpses of the Red Wings playing with Yzerman, Federov and Hasek on ESPN, I have always been intrigued by the sport and follow it more because of the massive hits dished out on a regular basis, its like Football with the hard tacking of Rugby.
Often I troll about the internet searching for various clips of hockey, best plays, best dekes, best saves etc. To my surprise I found this list with the title "TSN Sportscentre Top 10 Shootout goals", for a minute I thought, the spelling is incorrect, its "SportsCENTER" like the Indian version we get on ESPN, which again is not even close to the awesomeness of the few American editions I had seen ( a throw back to the 2000's, when between 2 -3 PM every weekday the American sportscenter would be on air, I got my daily fix of hockey, NBA etc from that). This Sportscentre in fact was the one which airs on TSN, a channel in Canada , its their flagship program so it basically is run around 10 hours a day , everyday , like CID for Sony in India.
Even before the countdown/top 10 started, they had the presenters make a few jokes on themselves and others, Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole, these two gentlemen have taken presentation to a whole new level, the madness and the quirkiness is expected from most Sportscenter's but this CenTRE was totally off the hook.
So for the past 4-5 days all I have done in my past time is watch their unlimited videos on youtube, they even have a top 10 Jay Dan segment where they poke fun at the Coyotes, Maple Leafs head coach, Thanksgiving, random Red Wing mascot who was holding up play, nothing is off hands for them, they have a go at it all, even Jay mailed Dan's wife to ask if she watched the show or not and the reply was broadcast on air, no one in the Indian media can even think of doing such crazy hilarious things on live TV. Unfortunately I may be one of the few thousand in India who tries to keep up with hockey, TSN is primarily a hockey channel with a few splurts of the NBA and the BPL.
Plus the guys at TSN seem to be decent enough to give people a chance, MrLogue was this guy who would post a lot of the top 10 videos on youtube but recently his account was blocked and removed since all the videos were "copyright infringements" so with all the backlash and anger online, TSN HIRED HIM!!!!, he is now part of the crew who uploads the Top 10 legally.
I just wish I was in Canada to be able to witness this show regularly, for now I would just have to do with the clips on youtube, damn I could have actually worked at TSN if I did some copyright infringement myself.
Oh well, here is a glimpse of what I was talking about, Jay and Dan, funny on tv personified.
If you are watching TSN, you got love here in Calcutta, give me a chance as well to work with this awesome team!
We all know by now i am not the sporty type,sure i watch a ton of sports,especially football....GO LIVERPOOL GO.....but i was never cut out to be a sportsperson especially due to one freaky accident i had in class 1 when in me old school Our Own English High School Dubai ,we were having trials for the Relay dash,and we were asked to run from one side of the small field to the other side,now since it is Dubai ,the small field was made of concrete,not grass but con-fucking-crete,BANG!.....went the gun i started running and by some freaky weird incident my leg got entangled with another kid's,i fell straight down,my faced scrapped the good old concrete,when i got up i was a bloody mess,the entire right side of my face was destroyed,i mean skin was dangling off and all,me teeth became loose and i couldnt eat solid food for like 2 weeks.That one incident got me shit scared as well as me family and they never forced me into sports ever again,they made me play the keyboards which is far worse......
So i spent 7 years in Dubai,skipping any and every sports meet possible,which means i got to be good old fatty boy,i have reduced a good bit now but back then i was a Big Mac.....so i came back to me home town Calcutta the city of joy and all that,STB well you must know what STB is like by now,check out my older posts if you dont have any idea at all,all is going fine,i mean day in day out i was getting abused the first year,name calling and all that .....but one day during an assembly a teacher yells out there will be march practice and so the last two periods will be reserved for that...and then after the march practice there would be trials for certain events.
So after the 6th period the bell goes off,i am a new kid dont know nothing bout the school and i see almost all the students heading off into the huge field that we have,i mean its like 3-4 football fields if not more....and we had like the many buildings of our school surrounding it with a few benches to sit on,the field has all these track markings with white chalk and all,10 minutes pass but no one is marching at all,all i see are 6 groups of people standing about,a few teachers per group and the group contains just the house captains and a few blokes who do wanna march,everyone else is standing at the sides of the field for God knows what reason,which i am gonna find out soon.
You see no one ever wants to march,we are FORCED to march,so the march mayhem begins,i see from a distance that around 50-60 students come running from one corner of the field ,zoom by us and hide in the technical block,i wonder what is going on,the i see a similar no of boys run in another direction from the opposite side and hide in some classrooms,a few minutes later a prefect comes up and asks me "Hey you are Lytton?????" I reply "No i am Reading"
Lytton,reading,wescott,vyse, and 2 more names were there i cant remember,these were the houses in our school,our school had so many fucking students we needed 6 houses just to accomodate em,so now i understood,guys were running away from their own prefects coz if you were caught by your prefect you were made to march your ass off for like an hour and 30 minutes,with constant slagging off and abuses by the prefects coz we "coudlnt march right" and that "we suck" the moter fucking prefects would never march in the heat just chase us guys around.
Oh and we did have some incentive to march about for like 3 weeks day in day out....we would score like 100 points in the sports day and we would get a large cake to be eaten by all us marchers,the reality was that the ake would get eaten by the prefects with us getting absolutely nothing,so the best way to avoid getting caught was to remove our belt and wear some other house's belt, "Are you wescott????" "nope reading" "Are you reading????" "nope lytton"
On and on and on we would go,i never did take part in any of the school sports days at all.....never even attended one to support my house,in fact we had a douche as out house captain QAM......that mofo would often catch hold of me and first of all demand that i go march and when i would refuse he would come and tell me that i would be the "anchor weight" in the tug of war competition,fuck off randi ,was my response on all of the occasions......
The sports day wasnt all about the marching tere were all those athletic events and all,most of these events were won by either the kids from Mizoram and all or by some anglo christian bloke,Lal Sangamanga Riki,Riki Junior,Riki Senior,Lalamapunga, and all.....so the sports day was actually some freak get together of the "other people" in our school........oh yeah i remember
Lal San Puiyaa....Saiyaaaan mann Guiiyaaa.....me pals know whats this about!
