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Bruins logos not welcome on City of Vancouver vehicles

June 6th, 2011 · 21 Comments

What can I say to this? Hope no citizens spot any city employees eating Boston cream pie.

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  • The Fourth Horseman

    Big Referee is Watching You!

    What next: will city employees have to sign an oath of allegence to the Canucks? Afraid of upsetting the hockey team’s ownership? Two Boston flags on a city vehicle? Now THAT’S a great photo op.

    MUCH better than watching the Olympic flame being gassed up, again. Something about “don’t count your chickens”…

    Love the team, but tonight Boston pwned us.

  • Everyman

    All this Canucks stuff, and not one note on what went on at the NPA “nomination” meeting last weekend? Did I wander into the Team 1040 blog…?

  • The Fourth Horseman

    Just to remind all, there is such a thing as hockey juju-ism. That, being the necessity to prepare for each game day–especially after a win— in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY as the game before.

    Thus we see people reverently laying Burrows #14 jersey across the back of the old armchair in front of the TV, as a talisman, as if to welcome a visiting spectre.

    Or, eating a bowl of oatmeal, game day morning, with a soft poached egg and a good dose of Frank’s Red Hot sauce decorating the whole delicious mess (breakfast of champions!).

    Or, putting on that unwashed “lucky underwear” once again, much to the chagrin of lovers, or, those nice people in the condo , directly across the street from me…er…someone.

    The point is, there must be NO deviation from the “winning conditions”, pre-set, once the team wins a game. The introduction of a “new” element upsets the delicate balance created by the many hockey jujuistes who practice this black art, across this fair city, from the East Side, to the West Side.

    So, I’m just sayin’ that the Premier’s relighting of the Oly torch, just cost her 70,000 votes—minimum.

    Here is a shot of the tragic event http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcgovphotos/5805875843/

    On a personal note, if I were running for city council, I would immediately create a bylaw banning the wearing of team jerseys by anyone over the age of 22 years of age.

  • The Fourth Horseman

    Everyman,

    If you watched tonight’s game, you would understand that the Team 1040 post game coverage (or, for that matter, any other station’s post game coverage) is the iodine poured all over our bleeding souls.

    Frances would never be that cruel!

  • Glissando Remmy

    The Thought of The Night

    ‘EXTRA, EXTRA! Peter Judd is a clone..part of the management team flown down from Hollyhock and member of the Vancouver Futureworld Amusement Park.’

    They gave him a new face, then why didn’t they think of giving him real cuff-links to wear?
    I know Peter. This is a low, low blow for the civil service of this city.

    After a media gag order, after the FOI stand up comedy routine, after intimidating city staff into submission, after a media hit list, after increasing security during Council meetings (because there is so much love for Vision and Robbie), after trying to tax the right to express your opinion in front of City Hall, this takes the cake.
    There is a gang of despicable characters residing inside City Hall of Vancouver. THis gesture is a clear attack on democracy and the freedom of expression. It’s in the Constitution.

    But you won’t hear anything from David Eby’s former Pivot Legal Society on this one. They are enjoying a healthy donation flow from the Solomon-Vision related ‘charities’.

    Speaking of which I read a few days ago that in the case of a Stanley Cup loss, the Mayor of Vancouver is going to raise the Bruins flag on top of the City Hall (same with the Mayor of Boston and the Canucks flag). Now, I’m not so sure I wouldn’t enjoy that. I know, irony is lost on the hillbillies from the Island of Cortes. Phew.

    We live i n Vancouver and this keeps us busy.

  • gmgw

    Being of the opinion that Marx’s dictum needs updating to reflect the fact that professional sports is now the opiate of the masses, and given that hockey-fandom is an affliction I’d thankfully outgrown by the time I’d turned 15, I regard with horror the collective psychosis currently gripping this hapless city, as tens of thousands of blue-jerseyed, knuckle-dragging cretins pour into the city centre every few nights like stampeding oxen, bellowing their profound stupidity to the skies. If it’s true that “This is what (they) live for”, it doesn’t speak to much of a life.

    Hence I regard this attempt to railroad City employees into group-think as truly vile. Of such ham-handed tactics are difficult collective bargaining rounds born, and rightly so. One hesitates to invoke the much-overused F-word (and I don’t mean the one pertaining to carnal knowledge), but here it is, on a tiny scale.
    gmgw

  • Frances Bula

    @Everyman. Sorry, I’ve been meaning to post on the NPA meeting and a couple of other things, but have been squeezed for time. Don’t think two posts on Canucks constitute the Team 1040 blog quite yet.

  • spartikus

    Oh for gawd’s sake the stupid things we make a fuss about.

  • Everyman

    @Frances Bula 7
    Thanks (I’m suffering from Canucks over-hype)

  • Frances Bula

    @Everyman. I think there are many of us feeling that way.

  • MB

    Don’t worry, everyone. It’ll be over soon.

  • MB

    I don’t have as much of a problem with blue cretins and green men as I do the anti-tax pontificators who care not to perform a cost-benefit analysis of what we get for our taxes with what we get, say, in the equivalent in a set of playoffs tickets.

    We live in a wealthy and stable society that is, however, subject to occasional mass insanity.

  • Joseph Jones

    Canucks is a business enterprise. What is it paying to advertise on City of Vancouver vehicles? Not to mention those flashing buses? Is this a flaunting of who owns City Hall? Let’s have some decent separation between this perverted church and our municipal state.

  • The Fourth Horseman

    I am all for the city making revenue during this series in the form of sponsorships (to pay for those big screens for instance). I also support the notion of the Canucks helping to defray any costs born by the city for policing, crowd management, etc.

  • david hadaway

    The funny thing is, of course, that the Bruins are the only team with any Vancouver players as well as being far more Canadian. Not that I care, because the behavior of role models like Burrows or Rome reminds me why I watch football.

  • Bill

    @MB #12

    “I don’t have as much of a problem with blue cretins and green men as I do the anti-tax pontificators who care not to perform a cost-benefit analysis of what we get for our taxes with what we get, say, in the equivalent in a set of playoffs tickets”

    The difference is that I have a choice whether I want to purchase playoff tickets are not. Taxes are determined and spent by someone else, some of which I may agree to and others I do not.

  • John

    @david hadaway

    “Not that I care, because the behavior of role models like Burrows or Rome reminds me why I watch football.”

    LOL. Like their behaviour is any better?

    Those guys spend almost as much time getting coked up and having sex with under-age girls as the NBA players do.

  • MB

    @ Bill #16. Granted.

    But we still have the freedom to vote for those who have ultimate power to raise or lower taxes.

    But you gotta admit, there is something wrong when some Game Six tickets that result in a 3-hour adrenaline rush (or depression, depending on the score) equate to my entire property tax burden for last year, taxes that resulted in so many public utilities and services over the course of 12 months.

    Where’s the balance regarding value for money there? Where is the waste?

  • MB

    I suppose I am also referring to societal values.

  • david hadaway

    John

    I meant FIFA not NFL .

    I suppose that doesn’t change your point re coke, but to be fair our guys don’t seem to have an under age girl problem. They stick to your regular high price lady of leisure when the WAGS aren’t around, making them the paragons of professional sport!

    Also it’s just a better game, IMHO!

  • Bill

    @MB #18

    “But we still have the freedom to vote for those who have ultimate power to raise or lower taxes”

    Having the right to vote is not the same as having the choice not to spend particularly since an increasing percentage of the electorate are net beneficiaries of the tax collected through higher than market wages and benefits and through income transfers. Eventually you pass the tipping point and become Greece.

    While I may agree with you about what people will pay for playoff tickets and we are free to voice our opinions, that is where it should stop. My beef is that more and more some people, often self identified as Progressives, want to coerce me into making “good choices” – sell the SUV and buy a bike, don’t eat Big Macs, stop using incandescent light bulbs etc etc. It takes big Government to enforce these “good choices” which only leads to more people dependant on government who will continue to vote for higher taxes because they believe someone else will pay.