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fotiou22 · 10-03-2013, 10:08 AM

I wish Edmonton fans could have some fun with the rivalry. While Calgary obviously has its annoying fans, there's a real darkness to how seriously people in Edmonton take this.

Walk down 17th Avenue in an Oilers jersey, you're going to take some ribbing—but if you've got any kind of humour about it, you'll probably end up having beers with a bunch of Flames fans. You wear a Flames toque on Whyte avenue, and you encounter genuine malice that can't really be diffused with self-effacing wit.

I hate to reduce that to the "white collar" vs "blue collar" culture of the cities. Maybe you grow up with the "city of champions" as your motto and that becomes internalized in a twisted way. I don't really know what accounts for such different approaches to the rivalry.

And Edmonton and Fort McMurray (and Kanata!) are the only places I ever hear the word ###### anymore. Maybe it's a big truck small dick thing.

10-03-2013, 10:08 AM	#10
fotiou22 Backup Goalie Join Date: Apr 2011 Exp:	I wish Edmonton fans could have some fun with the rivalry. While Calgary obviously has its annoying fans, there's a real darkness to how seriously people in Edmonton take this. Walk down 17th Avenue in an Oilers jersey, you're going to take some ribbing—but if you've got any kind of humour about it, you'll probably end up having beers with a bunch of Flames fans. You wear a Flames toque on Whyte avenue, and you encounter genuine malice that can't really be diffused with self-effacing wit. I hate to reduce that to the "white collar" vs "blue collar" culture of the cities. Maybe you grow up with the "city of champions" as your motto and that becomes internalized in a twisted way. I don't really know what accounts for such different approaches to the rivalry. And Edmonton and Fort McMurray (and Kanata!) are the only places I ever hear the word ###### anymore. Maybe it's a big truck small dick thing.