I think I'm going to start following, gulp, hockey...

I hear all the time about how great hockey is. That's all some people can talk about. I mean, even though back home every person I know loves football, now I am exposed to a different demographic of sports fans. I went from knowing zero hockey fans to a whopping two, and boy do they make some GREAT points. I'm starting to finally give in to their reasoning and I find myself becoming more and more willing to embrace this unique sport.

How foolish I have been all these years following college football. I mean, now I come to think about it, it is pretty anticlimactic attending a football game at the OSU horseshoe. Watching a game with 104,000 other screaming fans really isn't all the exciting. And the team is pretty lame. I mean, they've only won a major BCS bowl championship three out of the last four years. The rivalry against the team up north is pretty boring too. I hate tradition! In the end, college football just isn't...Canadian enough for me.

I guess it's time to suck it up and embrace a real man's sport: Hockey. It will be like a true homecoming. Hockey, you and your low-scoring games with random and confusing substitutions and sell-out crowds that equal the south bleachers at the shoe on a good day, I am sorry for turning from you and loving college football instead. Will you ever forgive me?

Sorry, Jim. I've found something more exciting than your yearly placement in the nation's top teams and run for the national championship, or your almost perfect record against the maze and blue. I have found a new love. It's called hockey, and boy is it exciting.....