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Letter of the day: Lyrical ode to Jets

Posted: 09/7/2011 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

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Tragically Hip lead singer Gord Downie performs at Winnipeg’s Shaw Park July 7.

Re: Out of line (Letters, Aug. 30). Maybe Susan Labossiere should cancel her Free Press subscription and use that money to buy a Creed album.

I have to agree with Rob Williams and Bartley Kives. Do not bring Nickelcrap for the Jets opener. However, a lot of people don't get Arcade Fire. Sad but true. I say bring on the quintessential Canadian rock band, the Tragically Hip, and I will explain why using Hip songs in quotations.

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True North Sports and Entertainment had the "courage" to "fight" over the last 15 years to bring back our Jets. When they left, thousands of Manitobans felt "so hard done by." All along "the 100th meridian," from the city of "wheat kings" to "Thompson Girl," there was a feeling that the Jets were "locked in the trunk of a car" and being driven to Phoenix and were left sitting at "the lonely end of the rink."

It's been "a long time running" but 15 years later a team in Atlanta was "looking for a place to happen," and turns out it was "a beautiful thing."

Winnipeg was "on the verge" and, finally, when Mark Chipman made the announcement the Jets were coming home, there were "butts wigglin' " at Portage and Main.

The Jets are back with a new logo featuring a "silver jet" that will be sure to leave "vapour trails" across the Winnipeg skyline. "Are you ready" for the "fireworks"?

DEREK Walsh

Marquette

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 7, 2011 A13

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