Finally, The Important Issues
By King Kaufman notes the most important insight to be derived from the Olympics:
It never occurred to me how important the horizontal stripes on the stockings are to the aesthetics of a hockey uniform before I got a load of the Nike-designed suits worn by most of the teams in these Olympics.
Yeah, I don’t know what Nike’s labor practices are like these days, but those socks deserve at least a 6-month boycott. However, it could be worse. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Cooperall:
And the Flyers haven’t won anything since the Ford administration, and the Whalers were forced out of the Nutmeg State. Coincidence? I think not!
While at the NHL level those things only lasted a year on two teams, at lower levels it lasted longer. At least half of my minor hockey league teammates wore the things for several years. It’s nice that sheer inertia prevented me from committing grievous aesthetic crimes for once…