This is my first blog post from my phone. We’ll see how this goes.

I’m sitting here at the Wranglers hockey game between periods. First of all, they won’t let you bring in cameras. Lame.

This is my fourth or so hockey game, and this sport never fails to amaze me. It’s very strange watching a game where ramming your body into an opposing team member with the intent to slam them into a wall is encouraged. A few minutes ago, I saw the entire team get into a fight. Really. And the crowd was cheering the whole time.

I have seen my completely sweet friends turn into frenzied fans. I’ll never forget seeing one of the sweetest people I know scream, “Kill him!” while pumping her fists in the air.

The announcer also encourages the fans to scream at the referees that they “suck.”

One of the weirdest things at these games to me is that when the home team scores, people with young kids lift them in the air above their heads as if offering up their first born to the hockey gods.

It probably doesn’t help that I never understand what is going on until someone scores a goal, but hockey is one of the strangest sports.

And there’s a heck of a lot of rednecks here. Ha ha.