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Nashville Predators: Hockey is the Best Sport in the World

By Shelby Prendergast

Nashville Predators goalie Carter Hutton (30) is consoled by defenseman Shea Weber (6) and center Colton Sissons (10) after game seven of the second round of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY Sports
Nashville Predators goalie Carter Hutton (30) is consoled by defenseman Shea Weber (6) and center Colton Sissons (10) after game seven of the second round of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY Sports /
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Apr 5, 2016; Nashville, TN, USA; Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne (35) and defenseman Roman Josi (59) and center Ryan Johansen (92) work to clear the puck after a save during the second period against the Colorado Avalanche at Bridgestone Arena. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne (35) and defenseman Roman Josi (59) and center Ryan Johansen (92) work to clear the puck after a save. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports /

Football: Masters of Manipulation

I bet you’re wondering how I’m going to pull this off, especially considering I’m going against a national holiday. But why is the Super Bowl one of the most watched events in our country? It sure isn’t for the love of football. It’s for the Doritos commercials. In my nearly twenty years on this Earth, I have not really watched the Super Bowl for the teams in the game. I’ve watched it for the halftime show.

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I didn’t go to my high school football games so I could watch the Walker Valley Mustangs lose again, I went to watch the marching band. Same reason why I went to most FSU games that weren’t against our rivals – I wanted to see the Marching Chiefs. And when I went to the Miami game, it was because the Canes make my blood boil and I want to see them defeated, not because I like watching football.

We think that we like football. We are super convinced that we like this sport. But we don’t. We like everything else we’ve stuffed in these games. We like the tailgates. We like the halftime entertainment. We like having capitalism shoved down our throats during the play stoppage that happens every two minutes during an NFL game.

Now, Nashville Predators hockey doesn’t insult us with a bunch of extra stuff shoved in to make us think we like the main event. We don’t go to a hockey game purely to watch the mascot’s antics. We don’t sit through seven Final Round games for the commercials. We watch hockey to watch hockey and to enjoy the game itself.

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Find a friend that doesn’t realize how wonderful the sport of hockey is and get them to a game.  In fact, if that is the case, why are they really your friend?

 

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