Canadian Culture, pt. II
Where else but in a world curling championship would the final championship game be halted by an excited audience member shrieking – because she won the 50/50 lottery draw?
Sure, she did win $16,000, but the two teams on the ice were visibly surprised by the noise. The Canadian skip (team captain) had to stop his shot until the noise died down.
Then the national television feed cut to the lady as she calmed down. Cutting back to the ice surface, the mike on the Canadian skip caught Russ Howard telling a teammate “I had to wait for that chick to quiet down.”
The hundreds of thousands of Canadians watching the Canadian and World curling championships in Hamilton and Edmonton these past five weeks have certainly noted something else about the Russ Howard’s rink (team):
They’re working hard to bring white belts back into style.
Of course, where else but a Canadian-hosted world curling championship would they actually announce the results of a 50/50 lottery during the last few minutes of the match?
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An interesting twist to this story is that the lady didn’t actually win the 50/50 draw after all. It was later discovered that she had misread her ticket and had the wrong number!
The prize is apparently still unclaimed, probably because everybody in the stadium threw their tickets away without checking after hearing her shrieking and crying.