Optimus Prime Hockey Jersey Available For Preorder

I think its ugly.... =X

Should have been a baketball or football styled jersey instead. Maybe Im just saying this cause Im from the South, but does ANYONE even watch hockey ???

Rated X wrote:...Maybe Im just saying this cause Im from the South, but does ANYONE even watch hockey ???

You're just saying it because you're from the South.


I'm stoked. If the quality is there I will endeavor to pick this up.

Rated X wrote:Should have been a baketball or football styled jersey instead. Maybe Im just saying this cause Im from the South, but does ANYONE even watch hockey ???

I love ice hockey, if you must know. I've actually been to quite a few Dallas Stars games in the American Airline Center

Rated X wrote:Should have been a baketball or football styled jersey instead. Maybe Im just saying this cause Im from the South, but does ANYONE even watch hockey ???

Clearly you've never been to the north. Here in Canada (Toronto in particular) hockey dwarfs b-ball, baseball, and even football in popularity. Hell, with the lockout over i can't turn on a tv or radio without some talking head blithering on about it endlessly.

As for the jersey, its ok, but too much like the Habs jersey for this be-Leafer.

Well, you kind of left yourself open to ardent Puckheads. That said, I understand the indifference to hockey from the South. You don't get much snow and ice down there and thus really never have the chance to play the sport as it should be played, on a frozen pond. I, for the life of me, don't understand the popularity of baseball or football in the US, but having not grown up there, I guess I will never know what it means to Americans.

OptimusPayne, Stars fan here. I also own several NHL games. Probably the reason why baseball and football more popular here than Canada is the weather. Baseball in particular is extremely weather influenced. Precipation just messes with the game's physics and the ball travels farther in hot weather. Also the extra down in American football also helps .

The jersey is alright from the pictures, but I would be worried about the price tag.

Dual purpose...also works as pussy repellent.

Humor: it's not for everybody...

Optimus Payne wrote:Also I don't see how naming teams after fish is better than birds. All birds are significantly more intelligent than fish BTW. In fact aren't a lot of baseball teams named after birds too? Hell, my hometown Jays are birds. Which reminds me, sorry about the fleecing my team gave yours this off-season...not.

I specifically said "dumb birds". There are plenty of powerful symbolic birds to use such as the eagle, hawk, falcon, vulture, etc. No need to use ducks or penguins. Do they have a doves team too in hockey ?

On to the fish. Have you ever seen the size of a Marlin AKA swordfish ? It's got a huge 3 foot spear capable of stabbing a man in the chest Steve Irwin style. It's not like we used the Miami Blowfish or the Miami Clownfish or some other fish associated with kids cartoons. And on football, Dolphins are extremly smart and they arent even fish.

NHL Games are played in a climate controlled arena so not having snow or frozen ponds in sot the issue. I think the reason hockey gets such a bad rap in the South is because it does not have a diverse group of players. If More Latino, Black, and Asian players would get signed, the populariry of the sport might increase in the South and West Coast.