Canucks’ ‘Green Men’ Announce Final Season
Sully and Force, the Vancouver Canucks Green Men, have announced this is their last season in spandex.
It’s not very often that you see the fans of a team announcing retirement.
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For the past five years, both Vancouver fans and other good-natured spectators around the league have enjoyed the antics of Sully and Force, known as the team’s ‘Green Men’.
The two sit next to the opposing team’s sin bin, doing everything from dancing on the glass panes to writing out a naughty list for Santa on a giant canvas entirely comprised of Tyler Bozak and Dion Phaneuf. They wave Canadian flags at the American teams, and gyrate at the worst of the NHL‘s offenders- all to the cheers and encouragement of the crowd. The two even made an appearance at the 2011 Stanley Cup Final games at TD Garden in Boston, taking obnoxious tours around Boston and harassing Bruins fans in bars.
In a press conference released by the team on Friday night, though, the two announced that this would be their farewell season. After this year, the two will stop being the men in the ‘green spandex’, and start being the ‘men in skin’.
I would make a crack about this, but it’s genuinely upsetting. I’m still not entirely sure I’m okay with this decision- it’s really the only thing I like about the Vancouver Canucks.
They’ve promised this will be their best year yet, which makes me genuinely hope they hop into the box with Matt Cooke and try to carry him off to somewhere unsavory. (A girl can dream).
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