Have A Drink On Me

So I'm reading in the Toronto Star this morning the big kerfuffle about the Canadian Women's Hockey Team having a few drinks and smoking some cigars on the ice after their gold medal winning performance. What in God's name is the big deal?? Is it that women shouldn't be showing themselves doing such degrading things as drinking and smoking? It's called a celebration for Christ's sakes! Teams from all over the world celebrate in the same manner after winning a majour championship. Is it that they went back out on the ice instead of celebrating behind closed dressing room doors? THE PLACE WAS EMPTY!!!! Only photographers and journalists were there, no public. The same photographers and journalists would be in the dressing room if the team decided to celebrate there. Is it that one or two of the players were 18 where the legal drinking age in BC is 19? This is the one I have the biggest problem with!! How many times have we seen Stanley Cup winners, World Series winners, NBA Champions swigging champagne in their dressing rooms after a championship win? Most of those championships happen in the U.S.A., where the legal drinking age, in most places, is 21. Do you not think some of those players were below the legal drinking age? Of fucking course they were!!! Yet not one word about it. I say bravo to the women of the rink. They fought hard, they won an Olympic gold medal. They deserve to have some fun. Have a drink on me, ladies!!