I’ve been thinking a lot about how I got into hockey lately.
Partly, it’s because of this job. Telling people I’m a sports blogger now raises eyebrows for pretty much anyone who met me at any point before college. I studied public law and playwriting, a theatre kid and absolute nerd who had never expressed interest in team sports. I always have to explain, no, see, I was in the hospital a lot and had nothing better to do and, ah, fuck it, sports are really just theatre, aren’t they? and if I’m lucky, they get it, or at the very least pretend to, and we move on.