This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them) by Steve "Dangle" Glynn

Author:Steve "Dangle" Glynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2019-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

A few weeks shy of the Vancouver Olympics, I got word: I was going.

I could have written an entire book about just my Olympic experience. It was the time of my life. These 17 days living away from home were, in some ways, the college experience I never got as a commuter.

Laura, Darryl, Mark, and I rented a house from a family in the city. When we walked out the front door, we could see mountains to our right.

My favourite non-hockey experience was easily my Alex Bilodeau interview. A few days into the Olympics, Bilodeau, who was a Nike athlete, won Canada’s first-ever gold medal on home soil in moguls. Nike had clamped down even harder on messaging, and getting them to approve jokes, random lines, and ideas was a struggle. One day, mostly as a joke, Mark, Darryl, and I brainstormed a ridiculous Bilodeau video idea. We would use effects to make it look like we turned a van into a gold Cadillac and then we’d drive around Vancouver. And while in the car, we’d pull up to Japadog, the gourmet hot dog stand in Vancouver with 40-minute lines, and get hot dogs together.

To our shock, Nike approved everything. It’s still one of the coolest videos I’ve ever done.

I also got to reunite with Apps, Hefford, and Botterill for a video where they took shots on me and I tried to stop them. We gave them these crappy little mini-sticks with no curve and they still murdered me. We shot two takes: one where I flailed around and let them score so that the video would be funny and another where I tried my absolute hardest. I can’t emphasize enough how little of a difference it made.

For some reason, I got to talk to Canadian rapper and producer Kardinal Offishall. That was actually quite difficult. We were on our bright red Canada couch in front of the Nike store by Robson Square.

The couch was awesome. It was just a simple IKEA couch with a red cover on it. Then, we gave the couch stripes, and, I’m ashamed to say, we cut up a Canada jersey and stuck Canada’s Olympic leaf logo right in the middle. We used that couch to shoot all our post-game videos, and on a couple nights, people slept on it.

I had never interviewed a musician before, and when I spoke into the microphone, I heard my own voice echo across the street. They had fed the audio through the store’s outdoor speakers without me knowing.

I asked him about Baby Blue Soundcrew, a group he had collaborated with when I was just getting into rap. They had a hit in Canada called “Money Jane,” with Kardinal and Sean Paul on it, as well as Jully Black singing the chorus. He seemed pleasantly surprised I even knew about that, and it made the rest of the interview more comfortable. We ended up holding a push-up contest for fans to win a Team Canada jersey. It was all so surreal.

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