I’ve been watching hockey for roughly four decades now, and I can’t shake the feeling that I’m doing it wrong.
Well, not wrong, necessarily. But weird. Whenever I’m watching a hockey game, especially one I’m emotionally invested in, I find myself doing some odd stuff. And I’ve always wondered how much of it might be going on with other fans too.
For the record, I’m not talking about all the stuff I do that’s I know is pretty much unique to me. I’m well aware that most of you aren’t buying a good luck bag of chips for the playoffs or having your kids construct small shrines for international tournaments. And that’s fine, because I'm sure that when it comes to that level of fan angst, you have your own strange habits and traditions, so I don’t feel bad.
I’m talking the much more run-of-the-mill stuff that’s weird. Or maybe it isn’t, and we all do it, and we just don’t talk about it. I’m genuinely not sure, which is why I put together today’s post. Maybe we’ll find out that we all have a lot more in common than we think. Or we might find out that I’m an unfortunate outlier, and you’ll all side-eye me while awkwardly shuffling away.
Either outcome seems fine, so let’s give this a try. Here are five weird things I do when I watch hockey; let me know if any of them sound familiar to you.
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