Olympic Gold Hockey in Mexico...

Olympic Hockey has had a big following across Mexico with all the American and Canadian snowbirds that spend the winter, or at least part of the winter here. There were many bars that were offering big screen TV's with Olympic coverage. For any of the Canadian games or the USA games, they had a lot of patrons.

The Canada-USA game was big news for many of the cruisers and condo-ites here. There was shock after the first game and the big loss to the US. Phylo’s bar and grill was pretty much a full house with lots of cheering and jeering. When the US scored the goal that tied the game with 24 seconds left, ½ the crowd groaned and the rest cheered. Lots of tension in the bar as the sudden death OT period started but when Canada scored, the place went nuts.


Canadians were jumping up and down, high 5-ing, the Americans were unusually quiet. After we stood and sang O Canada, there were some polite congratulations but the bar cleared out pretty quick.


The general comment from the Yanks was that we should have won the game anyways because, well hockey is important to Canada and we were the host country afterall….