bLAME CANADa |
SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 3 The athletes are gone
but not the awards. In a final shadow ceremony today before
the 19th Winter Olympics came to a true close, officials gathered for a
secret meeting. The topic: Blame Canada. Sitting beneath a life-sized poster
of ![]() One leading official sounded especially bitter. Its always been so easy. A few of us got together ahead of time to decide whod win what. Thats called efficient planning, OK. ![]() Zeal to blame Canada is uniting traditional Olympic rivals like the United States and Russia. Look. It started with Jamie Sale and David Pelletier crying over their silver, said one U.S. judge as his Russian colleague nodded in grim agreement. So we give em a gold. Then, with not so much as a thank you, they kick the U.S. hockey teams ass as theyre walking out the door. So much for the worlds longest unguarded border. On the heels of the U.S. judges comment, came a follow up complaint from a French official throwing up her hands. I mean, I can not even give my opinion on a glass of wine anymore without the waiter telling me I probably made my decision before the bottle was open. ![]() ![]() Anger is spilling beyond official Olympic ranks. Executives at NBC Sports are described as miffed by what theyre calling Canadas total disregard for our need to make some cash. One NBC executive sounded especially exasperated about what he called that damned hockey thing, referring to Canadas Womans and Mens hockey gold medals. Hello - in case no one noticed, were a U.S. network, broadcasting U.S. victories. Our audience is a traditional one. They expect melodramatic, nationalistic build-ups, finished off with a nice Stars-and-Stripes medal ceremony. Not a bunch of foreigners leaping up and down, waving strangely colored flags. The executive was not at all mollified by the high U.S. total medal count, second only to Germany. Hey - we could have delivered a heck of a lot more if the damn Canadians had shown some manners. Lots of calls came in from viewers very upset by all this. As he helped wrap the molding maple syrup in a COD mail-package, marked melt down some of your damned gold to pay for this Canuk, a Russian official muttered. I think theres going to be a lot of soul searching after all this settles down, deciding how to make sure it never happens again. |
Yours Truly,
Xandor
Copy Boy In-Chief