Now that it's over...

... and Canada has crashed out of hockey at the Olympics [sniff], folks up here may be trying to figure out what to watch on TV to fill-out reading week. Well just in time comes Tyler Williams and his essential movies of 2005 for theologians.

At any rate, watching them is probably more edifying than listening to the sports pundits make excuses--though I find that hard to resist. Was it leadership? Can a bunch of overpaid bums team of great individuals overwhelm a team playing greatly as a team? Would Mario's presence have made a difference? Why, with sharpshooters like Sakic, Iginla, and Thornton, couldn't we score? Our goalies kept it close. Russia was better. Hell, Switzerland was better...

But let's not forget that this is a fabulous day in other competitions--competitions, alas, that don't feature so highly in legitimizing Canadian identity: a gold and two silvers today in skating, a gold in skiing, and a place in the finals in men's curling, and still a chance for a bronze in women's curling.