What a Brier Final!!!

To anyone who doesn't follow curling (which is most people)the final of the Brier yesterday night was awsome!!

It was a rematch of Friday's game between Ontario and Quebec. Interestinly enough, Ontario the favorite came out nervous, and Quebec the underdog came ou very calm and collected. They built up a 4 point lead in the first two ends, and led the game the retst of the way.

This was a big upset, Ontario had only lost one game the entire Brier, was the heavy favorite and was playing awsome the whole week. The team from Quebec comes from a province where curling is not that big, they have not had the access to sponsorship money and thus were unable to get into as many competitions. They are now the first team from Quebec to win the Brier in 20 some odd years.

Congratulations to team Quebec, who are also now team Canada.

It was really nice to see, although I think one thing that's funny, is the inability of the announcers to sort of deal with the fact that these are people from Quebec and they speak French. I have to say the skip. speaks very good English, but the stupid comments by the CBC announcer about how they switch from English to French and other little comments make me realize how little some people come into contact francopohnes in Canada, especially I would guess, Westerners.