Another reason to be proud!!
Subject: NBC Thank you note
After tonight’s broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we’re going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.
Thank you , Canada :
For being such good hosts.
For your unfailing courtesy.
For your (mostly) beautiful weather.
For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.
For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.
For your unique TV commercials — for companies like Tim Hortons — which made us laugh and cry.
For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.
For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games — you’ve made wearing your name a cool thing to do.
For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.
For not honking your horns. I didn’t hear one car horn in 15 days — which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.
For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.
For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.
For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.
For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.
For always saying nice things about the United States …when you know we’re listening.
For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.
For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.
For all those who wondered….I know my wife and I did……
A fascinating story you may not have heard. . .
The (odd-looking?) bouquet of flowers presented to each medalist on the podium – 1,800 in all – are all the same, made up of green spider mums with hypericum berries surrounded by leather-leaf fern, monkey grass, and aspidistra leaves.
What’s really interesting? They’re all made by Just Beginning Flowers, a non-profit company in Surrey that employs women who are just out of prison, abused, fighting addiction, or with special needs, and teaches them how to be florists.
Really miss those great games!! What emotions and memories!
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One of the best moments in Canadian Sport!!!
Continue reading about Team Canada’s Winning Gold Medal Goal and Reaction 2010 Winter Olympics
“We do a pretty good job of stealing players from other countries and I think their fans deserve a chance to see a tournament like this,” said Team USA head coach Ron Wilson.
“I think the best players in the world should have an opportunity to compete in the Olympics,” said Babcock. “This is a great showcase event and players are thrilled to be here. I’m a big fan of the ice surface being the same as well because think the game is so much better.”
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Why???
Because I Believe
Because it was the most watched sporting (or any) event in Canadian History
Because of the emotion
Because it was the USA
Because Team USA beat us earlier and we knew they were so good
Because Canada owns the GOLD MEDAL Podium
Because we won the Most Gold Medals
Because the USA tied the game with 20 seconds left in regulation time
Because it was the last day of the Olympics
Because it was overtime
Because Canada was ready for a party
Because it was the perfect way to end the Olympics
Because the greatest hockey player in the world scored the Golden Goal
Because the whole nation was relieved
Because the whole nation celebrated at the same moment
Because what would we do if Team Canada lost
Should be 14 by tomorrow afternoon after Canada defeats the USA in men’s Hockey Finals.
Today, the tie could be broken with men’s and women’s curling finals.
