[Vision2020] The Hockey Mom and the Referee

[Tom Hansen]

"Someone Watching Sarah Palin's Campaign Tactics Imagines How She Might 
Challenge a Referee's Call In a Sixth-Grade Hockey Game"
By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet

Hockey Mom:
But ref, there's no way that's a goal that he made.
Remember that spitball that in second grade
Caromed off the teacher's nose? This little bird
Was close with the thrower, or that's what I heard.

Referee:
The puck's in the net, and when that's where it lands,
The only call possible's "Johnny's goal stands."

Hockey Mom:
They rode the same school bus, he and that thug.
So don't get misled by this kid's pretty mug.
The puck's in the net - at least somewhere near it?
It still wouldn't count.  He's got no school spirit.

Referee:
The puck's in the net, and when that's where it lands,
The only call possible's "Johnny's goal stands."

Hockey Mom:
That Johnny's not from here.  He's transferred.  Remember?
His mother is foreign, and she's not a member
Of one of our churches.  So what's to discuss?
I've just said he's foreign. He isn't like us.

Referee:
Go sit down, lady.

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Seeya at Farmers' Market, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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