I had all but given up after a disastrous first half. Bad kicks and powerful Roughriders play made me doubt it was possible to come back. So much that I stopped watching, and instead headed out to Cinema du Parc to see another horror show, the amazingly mad and thought provoking Antichrist. Well, little did I know, I missed an amazing roller-coaster ride second half, culminating in a razor thin victory aided by an unbelievable mistake made by the Roughriders: being one man too many on the field.
I didn’t know this, but apparently the Roughriders are a religion in Saskatchewan. Read this interesting article from our beloved national daily (thank Globe and Mail) and you’ll see what I am talking about.
It’s their only professional sports team, so people in Regina and Saskatchewan have built-up their love of the Roughriders up to a new level. And I thought we had it bad with only one NHL and one CFL team in Montreal. It seems the Roughriders sell tons of memorabilia merchandise and have huge “on the road” following, and the team is as old as the province. That’s a sports culture I love. The fans seem all in, and that’s cool. Just take a look at that:
Well, too bad for all the Roughriders fans because the Alouettes are still going to win.
Again, on other Montreal-related news, the Montreal Alouettes, our CFA darlings, are playing at the Gray Cup final, this Sunday, starting at 6:30 PM Montreal time. Their opponents will be the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and we’ve already beat the twice this year, so I cross my fingers.
In the last 8 years, the Alouettes have been at the Grey Cup final 5 times, that’s over 75% participation rate (I don’t feel like whipping out my calculator to double-check this), but they’ve won only once. So yeah, I think we’re due for another Grey Cup parade through downtown Montreal. Cause one thing’s for sure, the Canadiens wont be making us parade on Sherbrooke Street this year.
We already had the Impact win their championship this year, to not much fanfare, but if the Als win also, that will make 2 out 3 our “professional” teams winning. Not bad at all.
On a side note, tomorrow the 21st of November, St-Catherine Street in downtown Montreal will host the Santa Claus Parade.
While if you’re a kid this might be a big event for you, for the rest of us it will only mean that traffic will be disrupted downtown and hordes shopping crazed parents will invade the streets of downtown; eventually to return home carrying heavy shopping bags with items that will be forgotten right after Christmas as quickly as they were bough.
Really, it is just plain ridiculous that the Santa Claus parade is held so early. It’s not even December yet, Christmas is in over a month time. The parade just goes to prove how Christmas has lost its celebration spirit to turn into a shopping frenzy fueled by guilt and societal and marketing pressure.
This is really not the Santa Claus I was dreaming of as a kid.
Some news here on the huge Celebration 2010 party to be held at the Bell Center. Just like in 2006 when Tiesto graced Montreal with his presence and played at Celebration, well this year we’re getting another mega-star of electronic music, Paul Van Dyk.
It’s difficult to get extra info because the site of Celebration 2010 has very little but a flash splash page on it (for now).
Maybe I enable comments again on this blog, and let you readers post whetever info you might have. Hopefully we don’t get spamed to death.
Or maybe I’ll just do some more research and post it up here.
In the mean time, some hard base beats from Paul Van Dyk:
