As many of you are probably aware, very few people in Ghana are familiar with hockey, let alone even know what it is. Given that the Bruins are in their first Stanley Cup since the first Bush was in office this presents a considerable problem for a Bay Stater. With the Bruins down 3-2 in the series going into game 6 on Monday night it was imperative for my buddy, Liam, and I to watch the game. Our first thought was to go to the Vodafone internet cafe and attempt to stream the game; however, because of the four hour time difference from MA to Ghana the puck wouldn't drop here until after midnight when the Cafe is closed. We do have a 3G connection so we scoured Google (searched "watch Stanley Cup in Ghana" and scanned the first two pages of results) but to no avail. Liam posted a question on Yahoo Answers asking if anyone knew how to watch the Stanley Cup in Ghana but those fascists at Yahoo promptly took it down without explanation. At this point we were lost, frustrated, and filled with unadulterated rage. We resigned ourselves to streaming the radio and painting mental pictures of the game.
12:15: The Puck Drops.
We listen to the first few minutes of the game when I Was suddenly struck by the most fantastic realization since Newton's lame-ass apple. Big Daddy Straus has Slingbox. So I called his ass in the States and told him to hook a sucka up with some Bruins. Big Daddy Straus obliged. We had to say our location was Spain because Slingbox, those profit-driven Capitalist thugs, decided it would be more cost effective to not cover any of the African continent. Through this means, though, we were able to watch he Bruins on a comically small and terribly pixelated screen for nearly three hours. It was great.
Game 7 in four hours.
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