Bandy

Saturday I was lucky enough to get a special nation-discount on a ticket to a bandy game! We had a really nice free brunch at Värmlands nation of pytt i panna and coffee, some glögg with almonds and raisins, then we all walked to the Studenternas IP stadium. It's an outdoor stadium, quite small, and everyone sort of stands on the bleachers (too cold to sit?).

Bandy is a bit like hockey, but with a round rubber ball, a funny curved stick, a giant net, less padding, and double the players on the ice. And at some points the whole team seems to crowd inside the net while the opposing team takes a shot (you can see this at 2:52 in the video below)... must read up on some rules or something before going to another game...

I must say, at some points I just really wanted to see someone get slammed into the boards, but there were no boards!! Must find a way to watch some Canucks games over here. :P

Uppsala's team is called Sirius (hence the play on words in the video below!)
Every time their team scored, they would play a clip from this song! "Wooaaaaooo.... Bandy is a Sirius game...."
Unfortunately they lost, but it was a really close back-and-forth game!
It reminded me a bit of a Whitecaps game before MLS, with a section in the top of the bleachers waving big flags and singing cheers with tunes to English pop songs but with Swedish bandy-related lyrics :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jKbctl2txQ

just a quick update for now! Must get to bed. Will post pictures after I steal them from my friend`s camera.