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As you may have heard, around 80% of Canadians watched on TV as their country beat the Americans in the Gold Medal game this year. But they didn't just watch—if this graph's any indication, they didn't want to miss a minute. Look:
As you can see, the water usage went down dramatically throughout the game, spiking only as the game hit intermission, when everyone scurried to the bathroom. With all the toilets flushing at once and (since Canadians are so polite) everyone washing their hands, you have three spikes in water demand. Otherwise, those polite bastards were glued to the couch. A few other thoughts while we're here:
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Only time I ever watch a hockey game is in the Olympics and college games. Way to many fights in the pro game and it does take away from the game. A lot of people say fighting is part in part ingrained into the game. This is a lie. Look how the viewership in Canada was attrected to the game 80 % of the TV’s were on the games. Add to this how many people were over other peoples homes to watch the games on TV. It is time to take fighting out of the games. How to do this at first. 10 game ban for starting a fight. If a player is injured because of the fight the other player is banned from playing until the injured player comes back to play but still has that 10 game ban added to that time. The team that the player who started the fight does not have the abillity to call up a replacement player during this entire time. On top of this the team with the player who started the fight has to pay the other teams costs for rehabbing the injured player. At this point I would watch the pro game of hockey.
by jerseyjoehaven on Mar 9, 2010 1:44 PM EST reply actions
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