Sticks, skates, a little puck

What I don’t know about certain sports being very popular in Texas right now is not going to come as much of a surprise. But I’ll be brutally honest about a sport I really don’t understand: hockey. Ice Hockey. Sticks, skates, a little puck that flies through the air with the greatest of ease. Violence. With the hue and cry about video violence, I wonder why no one even considers doing anything about the real violence, the stuff at the ice hockey game. And the rules? What rules? It seems to be pretty arbitrary, as near as I can tell. What looks like a fight in some cases is okay, whereas other times, some guy has to go and sit in the “time out” box for two minutes. Really makes this look like a mature sport, too, what with the time out box. I would have been personally offended by all the violence except I was stuck in trailer in South Austin, surrounded by a gaggle of mostly male friends, all cheering at various points, and talking excitedly about the amount of violence on the screen. Regular pro football is really tame compared to this stuff. Go Stars.