Women's sports are and always will be in the shadow of their male sport counterpart. It's just the way it is, sorry girls, your sports just suck to watch. With that being said, there is a huge Olympic hockey game tonight, that being the gold medal game between USA and Canada. But guess what? I bet you that half of the NC readers had no idea the game was tonight and the other half had no idea there was an actual game. The only time people cared about a woman's sport was back in '99 when USA beat China in the World Cup and Brandi Chastain took her shirt off. The moment she did that every dude in the US collectively went "Is this what always happens in women's sports?" I guess that sounds sexist, but it's the truth. I was 13 years old at the time, when my teenage hormones really started kicking in and I'm pretty sure I thought Brandi Chastain was one of the best looking women I had ever seen.
Anyway, after this whole sports bra situation died down people stopped caring about women's sports all over again. They're just so boring to watch. Can anyone tell me who won the WNBA championship last year? I could easily Google it right now and have the answer for you but I really don't care. Now when you involve an entire country in a sport, people do take some interest. The keyword in that sentence is SOME. The hockey game tonight is clearly not that big of a deal because the game is being played on MSNBC (6 ET if you're really interested, but there's also The Office reruns on TBS at 6:30). I'll tune into the game tonight, strictly because I love rooting for America and who knows, maybe there will be a Chastain-esque celebration again.
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