fox: curling stones: i love this game (curling)
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2008-04-11 10:09 pm

SCOTLAND!!!

First:  Heia, Norge!  Norway won the 3-4 match vs. China this afternoon in fine form; the Chinese team lost their mojo and the Norwegians never really lost theirs -- particularly the second, who was groovin' out to the music they were playing between ends.  Note:  they are all quite a lot shorter than (a) they look and (b) I remember.

And then:  Scotland 7 6 Canada in the 1-2 page playoff!!!  Down 6-2 and battled back to win with a deuce and three steals!  Go on, boys!
me:  So can we sit with you all again on Sunday?
Scottish gentleman sitting next to me:  Oh, please do!
WOO-HOO!

(I may have had two or three frozen margaritas during the game and thus be a little buzzy in addition to flying high.  For the record, in the first- or second-end break during the 3-4 match, the PA was playing "Friday I'm In Love" by The Cure, because at this event playing on Friday is the equivalent of playing on Sunday at a bonspiel; and after the 1-2 match, it was playing "Walking on Sunshine", which I am, and the Scots and their families are even more.  Woo!)

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2008-04-12 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
But what have you got against Canada?

Not a thing. They have been very gentlemanly all week, two v. classy examples of which are Martin congratulating Kapp of Germany on an excellent high-pressure draw for one (when Martin was looking at stealing four), and their fifth man shaking everyone's hands when he came in late in one game I can't remember when. Good guys. Just, they're not my boys Team Scotland, and they're not my secondary boys (and [livejournal.com profile] flt's boys) Team Norway. In baseball terms, Team Scotland are for me the Cleveland Indians, and Team Norway are the Red Sox, and Team Canada are ... the Cubs, I guess. Not that it's been 100 years since they won -- far from it, obv. -- but that I'm happy to get behind them winning provided they're not playing one of my preferred teams, which in this case, they are. (Earlier, when I was saying I'd like to see that they could be beaten, you may read in New England Patriots or similar.)
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[personal profile] thalia 2008-04-12 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
OK, that was just mean. [g]