Toronto Hockey - Welcome to the Colosseum

Dion Phaneuf sends the city into a tizzy of pleasure as he bulldozed through a game. Everyone thinks he's the next captain. They brag that he plays with belligerence.

What's it like to get punched in the head about 8 times as an entire stadium of people cheers the guy on?
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Dion Phaneuf sends the city into a tizzy of pleasure as he bulldozed through a game. Everyone thinks he's the next captain. They brag that he plays with belligerence.

What's it like to get punched in the head about 8 times as an entire stadium of people cheers the guy on? Originally Posted by Lauren Summerhill
If you are the "punchee".... trust me.... the cheers are the LEAST of your worries.

When I was young & ignorant (not old & stupid... like I am now!) I had the misfortune of winding up in a Texas Two-Step with most of an entire minor league hockey team one night. That one hurt for a while!

One of them said, "Shut up!" I thought he said, "Stand up!" & it was on!!!

I didn't feel so bad when I saw a couple of them were skating & dropping the gloves in the NHL a year or so later...
I've been looking for a "clean" version of Chuck Brodsky's Hockey Fight Song to post. Unfortunately this is the best I can find (there is sound from the two guys "acting" out the song.

It's loosely based on the Broad Street Bullies (the Philadelphia Flyers of the 70s) with a little “Slapshot” reference thrown in; down with tongue in cheek.

http://www.thefilter.com/Music/Chuck...ong/MusicVideo

I'm going down to the Garden - with a couple of my buds
Gonna sit up in the cheap seats - I wanna see a little blood
I wanna get my money's worth - eat some dogs & drink some beers
Yell all night at the referee - "Go on you bum, get outta here!"

I wanna see a hockey fight - a donnybrook, a little brouhaha
And if our team should score tonight - we all can yell "Hoorah! Hoorah!"

I didn't come to see Gretzky - I didn't come to see Lemieux
Or any of those other pretty boys - and all that fancy stuff they do
I came to see the Hanson Brothers - take on Dave "The Hammer" Schultz
Drop their gloves & do the tango - beat each other to a bloody pulp

I wanna see a hockey fight - a donnybrook, a little brouhaha
And if our team should score tonight - we all can yell "Hoorah! Hoorah!"

Send in the goons, coach - c'mon, get rid of these clowns
Let's kick some ass, team - hey you, in front, yeah you, sit down!
I wanna see the benches empty - garbage raining from the stands
Wanna see 'em climb the glass - start a little something with the fans

I wanna see a hockey fight - a donnybrook, a little brouhaha
And if our team should score tonight - we all can yell "Hoorah! Hoorah!"

My boy's a hockey player - my boy, he's pretty tough
I'm awfully proud of my boy - he ain't afraid to mix it up
You shoulda seen him whup that Nichols kid - gave that boy a bloody nose
Shoot, by the time he's ten years old - my boy'll be ready for the pros

I wanna see a hockey fight - a donnybrook, a little brouhaha
And if our team should score tonight - we all can yell "Hoorah! Hoorah!"