Canadians really do love hockey

This article makes me laugh and proves that some stereotypes (in this case, "Canadians love hockey") are based in fact!

Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying
Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday. The airline was forced to delay a flight from Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games because passengers watching the end of the gold medal final on airport televisions ignored repeated calls to board.

"We incurred a flight delay for a reason Air Canada had not yet encountered in over 72 years of existence," chief executive Calin Rovinescu told a business gathering.

The Canadian fans were rewarded for their delay, as the nail-biting end to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics saw Canada beat arch-rival United States 3-2 in overtime.

There are also a couple of good vocabulary words and an idiom, which are in bold type.

to trump: If you trump what someone has said or done, you beat it by saying or doing something else that seems better.

to take a back seat (figurative): to become less important than someone or something else.

nail-biting (adj): If you describe something such as a story or a sports match as nail-biting, you mean that it makes you feel very excited or nervous because you do not know how it is going to end.