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Newark, NJ
-- Danny "The Dangler" Cahill was all but ready
to say the words that would change his life forever -- the words
his longtime girlfriend Gina DiMato had been waiting for since
they met eight months earlier. But then, as Cahill watched in
horror as his hometeam New Jersey Devils become eliminated from
the Stanley Cup finals a few months ago, he just couldn't go
through with his romantic vision of the perfect marriage proposal.
"I remember sitting there with Gina with the ring in
my pocket and just waiting for the words to magically appear
on the Jumbotron, as I had arranged earlier that day,"
Cahill said. "Then those fucking guys just choked on
the ice and I spent the rest of the game screaming and trying
to figure out what went wrong."
The evening had a much different ending then planned because
Cahill just wasn't in the mood to propose after that.
"When the jumbotron display was about to come on I went
to go take a piss and told her to go get me some nachos so
she wouldn't see the words on the screen" Cahill said.
"She got all in my face and told me to 'fuck off and
get my own nachos.' If she only new the amount of thought
and planning it took to come up with the whole Jumbotron thing,
I don't think she would have acted like such a cunt. Anyway,
I just ignored her crying and concentrated on the game."
The story is similar for thousands of would-be fiancé's,
who abandon plans for a Jumbotron marriage proposal because
their team is either losing, or during the excitement of the
game, they forget to look up and point out the big moment
to their girlfriend.
Then, as the season ends, so do the weddings. New Jersey
County Clerk Miles Hurley, in charge of issuing marriage licenses,
said that when the hockey season ended a few months ago and
Tampa Bay Lighting won the Stanley Cup, nobody seemed interested
in a quickie marriage. We basically have to wait until the
season opener before our office gets busy again. If it wasn't
for hockey, I don't think we'd be in business."
A recent study showed, in the United States alone, more than
93% of men propose marriage or consider proposing marriage
at a hockey arena. An additional 5% of men plan marriage proposals
at baseball or football games. The remaining 2% are a mix
between professional wrestling matches, rock concerts and
the few men who opt to propose marriage during a romantic
dinner, vacation or expensive evening on the town.
In Canada, the percentages are even greater.
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