DE: Did it have to be Monday already?

[bjornwilde]

So not ready for an early day and definitely not ready for work. That one extra beer last night isn't helping matters either.

Anyway, less griping more entertaining. From jjprobert comes this gem (a little late but I think Wimbledon just wrapped up yes?):
It's Wimbledon fortnight. Which means, here in the UK, BBC TV is dominated by coverage of the tennis.

So, Sports: How do your pups feel about professional sports? Do they play sport at any competitive level? Do they just enjoy going for bike rides in the sun (or similar)?

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[gone_byebye]

Gordon doesn't care about sports. There was a a time before Black Mesa when he competed in downhill mountain bike racing, when he got the chance. He came very close to a regional championship before taking a nasty tumble at close to fifty miles an hour and breaking his collarbone; somehow he managed to get up and get back on the bike and cross the finish line before passing out. millicanon backstory created entirely to justify FPS protagonist levels of toughness and balance whut

Shephard used to pay attention to a couple of college sports teams back when such things existed. He played ice hockey and rugby in Rowlesburg and kept up the rugby thing in the Marines, although that was pretty much purely intramural, not pro. He is firmly of the opinion that if rugby were supposed to be easy they would have called it football. Also, soccer is not football, it is soccer. (Yes, I know. Character parochialism, not mun parochialism.)

Cartoon!Ray is a Mets fan, as there is at least one reference to him having season tickets during a 'but the world's about to end' scene. The Ray I've played in the Bar has been Millicanoned as a Yankees fan. Beyond that he doesn't care about sports to any recognizable degree, although he may occasionally go to Islanders games with his nephews.

Medic and Mordin don't care. Varric is from a world where professional sports don't exist.

Ellen is vaguely aware that professional sports used to exist- I'm half inclined to say that Vault 101's collection of classic films included Pride of the Yankees and maybe something inspirational about an American team beating the pants off some filthy filthy Commies- but by her time, they don't exist any more. She did once encounter a gang of raiders who had taken it into their heads that ice hockey was a nationwide form of gladiatorial combat before the Great War and that they were going to find an old Nuka-Cola formula for clear Nuka-Cola and use that to somehow bring back the glory days of the ice gangs, so, uh, yeah.

And then there's Santo. He's El Santo, for God's sake, he's a Mexican cultural icon and sports superstar. Yes, lucha libre is as fixed as American wrestling, but within his canon it's real (and capable of defeating Martians, wolfmen, Moon Nazis, and global counterfeiting rings), so professional sports have made him the most famous man in Mexico.

[md_donighal]

She did once encounter a gang of raiders who had taken it into their heads that ice hockey was a nationwide form of gladiatorial combat before the Great War and that they were going to find an old Nuka-Cola formula for clear Nuka-Cola and use that to somehow bring back the glory days of the ice gangs, so, uh, yeah.

...if we were talking about any other canon, I'd be able safely to assume you were making that up. But since it's Fallout, I have to ask if that's canonical, and moreover to ask knowing there's a significant chance that the answer is along the lines of "yes, this one's all on Bethesda".

[gone_byebye]

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sudden-Death_Overtime
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ledoux
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Dubois_(Fallout_3)
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Gervais
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mercier
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Just_for_the_Taste_of_It

[gavin62truck]

Someday Ellen is going to have to tell Tommy about the ice hockey gangs.

[gone_byebye]

Oh, I'd be happy to, if we could figure out a way to have the subject come up in the first place!

[gavin62truck]

Hah, I was thinking of that, too. Actually I've always wanted him to randomly come through the door wearing full hockey gear, so that might happen.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Better "Pride of the Yankees" or "Knute Rockne, All American" than "The Longest Yard." :)

[gone_byebye]

Oooh. Yeah, "Knute Rockne, All American" is probably in there too. (And now that I think about it, although it wasn't sports related, there's probably a copy of "Code of the Secret Service" starring Ronald Reagan.)