Hockey is a rite of passage in Canada. Most people eat, breathe, and sleep hockey and is so much apart of the Canadian culture that the one of the largest TV channels carries games every Saturday night. So, this post from The Vancouver Observer could be a telling change in Canadian culture.
Is Hockey Losing Its Popularity To Ultimate Fighting
↵↵On a recent Saturday night my friend and I went out to watch the Canucks play during CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada. Normally you’d assume every pub in the city would be playing the Canucks on every TV but that night was different. When we arrived we were surprised to see a completely packed pub with 6 out of 8 TVs showing Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The sound in the pub was also tuned to the UFC match so that every punch and submission hold could be heard loud and clear. At the second pub we went to it was the same story. How, then, to explain this shift in allegiances from one apparently violent sport to another?
↵↵ Hockey is nothing like it used to be back in the rough era of the 1970’s and may be missing the edge that it used to have, but what is the world coming to when Canadians seem to care more about UFC than hockey.
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