But that’s not the Olympic match-up, that’s in Kandahar:
“Half of our team is in Iraq” was one of the good-natured excuses offered by U.S. troops to explain Canada’s 16-2 victory over the United States in a ball-hockey game on Sunday that had all the passion, but none of the drama, expected of the Olympic ice hockey tilt between the two countries later in the day in Vancouver.
The lopsided score was a fair indication of the play before a crowd of nearly 1,000 often deliriously happy soldiers at the smartly laid out ball-hockey rink that Canada built at Kandahar Airfield in 2006.
Honestly taken aback by a Canadian offer to balance the game by swapping a few players when the score stood 10-1 in Canada’s favour, U.S. army Col. Mark Murray, invoked the immortal words of Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, commander of the 101st Airborne, who responded to a Nazi ultimatum to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge, by replying: “Nuts! It will be a cold day in hell before we do that.”
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“Management Measures”, and good measurements (and by definition good managers) include quantifiers.
What WAS the temperature in Kandahar yesterday?
Comment by Chris greaves — February 22, 2010 @ 05:43
Whatever it was, they should have heated up the arena in Vancouver to the same extent . . . apparently we’re a better ball hockey than ice hockey nation.
Comment by Nicholas — February 22, 2010 @ 10:35