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Even Ali Would Find This One Funny!

By Ben Meisner

What makes the whole Hockey Enforcers evening out such a farce, is the fact that the hockey players will be on skates trying to hit one another with boxing gloves. That’s right, they will be wearing boxing gloves.

 That’s how they are getting around that pesky little problem of whether this fits into the mold of boxing which then could come under the umbrella of the Athletic Commission and City Hall would be powerless to act as well. 

So if you think you are going to be entertained by watching a couple of ex hockey players in full dress with a set of boxing gloves on trying to hang on to each other and punch at the same time (a feat that would be most difficult at the best of times for many of this group) then spend the money. It will be about as exciting as watching a couple of earth worms in a race.

 As for the pay for view, even the legendary Cactus Jack Wells of the old CKY days wouldn’t be able to spin this deal unless of course he sang waltzing Matilda as he called it. This gong show as it is being referred to is a joke and if we buy into it, the jokes on us and they really will think we're a bunch of hicks. 

In addition to "hocky enforcers" in full dress, we can expect the "enforcer girls"....well, let's just say  we can expect  a different kind of uniform that has nothing to do with hockey, enforcing, or boxing for that matter.

Meantime, there will be a guy standing at the sidelines laughing to death that he was able to extract a few pails of money from the folks in PG so they could watch a couple of burned out hockey players wearing boxing gloves, waltz.

If tickets to the event don’t sell well, trust me, the promoters will pull the pin faster than the crowds disappeared at last years Cougar games.  

Then what will the Mayor who’s been tramping around town trying to put the “censorship spin “on the issue do?
Well after raising sheer hell about the comments by Hedy Fry, this one may have some lasting after taste.  Fry's comments, while damaging, were so ridiculous the average Canadian  raised an eye-brow when  they heard it...this time,  it's hockey, it's a brawl, and it's northern B.C.   what better mix  do you need to make us look like backwoods red necks?  On second thought,  how about boxers, in a ring, wearing skates?  Could be the next Tyson comeback!!!

That, is one man's opinion


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