Know Your Swedish Elite League II

My new favourite team is MIF Redhawks, playing in Sweden's third-largest city, Malmö. (That's not a little screaming man, that's an "o" with an umlaut). They play in the 4,500 seat Malmö Isstadion. The standing room crowd has a wide variety of cheers: "[expletive]-[expletive]!" where Canadians might yell "de-fence!", cheers incorporating the Russian National Anthem, cheers incorporating everyone's favourite Romanian dance hit, Dragosteia din tei, etc.

Danish? No problem! Just take the 8 km Oresund Bridgefrom Copenhagen to Malmö. That way you can enjoy Swedish Elite League fun! (P.S. What else are you going to do in Copenhagen?)

Posted by chrisdye on October 26, 2004 with category tags of

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P.S. At the beginning of the game, they lower the lights and sing the Swedish national anthem, while the Swedish flag is held by a thin, skating elephant (below, just to the left of the giant tube of toothpaste)


In addition, the Redhawk mascot (which seems half-hawk, half-chicken) skates around the arena holding the Redhawks flag while the entire theme from "1492: Voyage of Discovery" (if you don't know it, imagine in its place "Chariots of Fire") is played. This music takes about 12 minutes to complete, and the only thing that happens during this time is the mascot skating around in circles.

Swedish Elite League: the world's premier hockey league!
   comment by chrisdye on October 26, 2004

The Oresund Bridge is no doubt another step in the march towards a borderless Europe where individual countries are getting physically closer and closer together.

Creepy... Europe is swallowing itself!
   comment by Mariana (#35) on October 28, 2004

   

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