Words and Image by Anil Mungal
Is that guy on the left a "sellout"?RAMA, Ont. – According to my boss, The Editor, our status as the world's greatest curling newspaper and overall source of curling news often results in people emailing or calling us with all kinds of questions or comments about the Roaring Game... and often these questions or comments are completely unrelated to anything we have published, tweeted etc.
Apparently, when major TV curling events are broadcast, our toll-free telephone line gets blasted by curling fans who either don't like this, or don't understand that, or whatever.
Back in the 2000s, most phone calls concerned women's curling superstar skip Colleen Jones and WHY CAN'T SHE STOP CHEWING HER GUM IN SUCH AN UNDIGNIFIED FASHION??
NOTE: At this point, The Editor would like to point out that The Curling News has to pay for all of these long-distance calls you are making to our phone line, so folks, please do one of three things before calling us:
1) SUBSCRIBE. FOR GOD'S SAKE. It's the least you can do, and you should be a subscriber anyway – because you love curling.
2) Please consider calling someone else. Like, for example, the Canadian Curling Association (you can find their toll-free number at curling.ca) or the World Curling Federation (you can find their really expensive not-toll-free number at worldcurling.org)
3) Send us a "free" message through our website. This very website, in fact. Just go to the "CONTACT" tab near the top of any page.
One such message was sent and received last night, sent from a curling fan to none other than Skins competitor Glenn Howard. Ordinarily we might not publish the message, but in keeping with the theme of this posting, and assuming that the writer was actually looking for a way to pose his question/comment/etc. to Glenn Howard himself, and because the message is not impolite in any fashion, The Editor has decided to publish it, in its entirety.
Here it is:
hey Glenn... you guys are so good at your sport & appear to be really nice individuals but "really" those sponsor shirts - they're atrocious & make it look like your team really sold out....either tone them down or better yet get a new "dignified" sponsor...it can't always be about the money....mark ward
Well now! With that message, The Curling News is now cleared to post yet ANOTHER image of Team Howard's Green Machine jersey from yesterday's action – just click on the image to increase its viewing size.
But we also want to ask you, the reader, some questions: do you agree with the writer that the jerseys are atrocious? Are they ugly? Are they indicitive of a sellout? Or do you think the jersey is attractive... perhaps even beautiful? Is it effective? is it necessary?
Let us know what you think via the "Comments" area below...