Tuesday, April 15, 2008

That was Unfortunate


Last night the Ottawa Senators lost for the third straight time in the NHL playoffs and while that has very little to do with comics there was this odd connection. It was the home opener of the playoff series last night and if you don't know anything about hockey or this team in particular you should know that their logo is this Roman Centurion.

Skip ahead to last night and the opening ceremonies for the home run was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. It was one of those moments where me and my wife watching at home both got embarrassed watching this thing. There was this video of the hockey players watching this centurion guy walking out and then there's this guy in a 300 Halloween costume with a wonky microphone trying to yell something. It didn't really sound like any language I've heard and well, I felt bad enough for the actor. I'm guessing he was probably some local wrestling entertainer but he really looked like he was trying out for the porno version of 300. It was ridiculous to the point of insulting Frank Miller.

I guess if this happened last year, or whenever the movie came out, it would have helped a bit by being slightly more current but I don't think that idiocy could have been saved no matter what. And he was still better than the performance put on by the team.

3 comments:

Johnny Bacardi said...

On the contrary, I don't think you can insult Miller enough. God knows he has no such scruples towards his readers...!

joncormier said...

I was going to go along those lines and say that the performance was more in the spirit of Frank Miller than most of his own work, but honestly, it was verging on insulting to everyone with eyes and ears.

Siskoid said...

THIS... IS... SUCKY!!!