Getting to Know the St. Louis Blues

One down, one more team to go this weekend. The Preds will leave Columbus in their dust and take their talents to St. Louis. But as we like to do (I know this is only the second time, but you'll see we really like to do it), let's take a look at our friends to the west and see what's going on in their neck of the woods. Sorry we didn't have a bunch of posts later in the week everyone. Work really sucks when it interferes with fun doesn't it?

Name:

The St. Louis "Blues" were named for the famous W.C. Handy song of the same name. The song was made because St. Louis really sucks and gives you the blues. I mean why else would W.C Handy say that? It's a bunch of farms and then an arch. Seriously! There's NOTHING out that way. Have you ever driven west of Tennessee? Yeah neither have I, there's a reason for it. All my friends that have had to drive that way always complain about how boring it is. W.C. Handy was made famous when his band moved to Memphis and started playing Beale Street.. So congrats St. Louis, your name was adopted from a song by a famous Tennessean. Nashville 1 - St. Louis 0. Just another reason why we own you. 

Origin:

St. Louis was part of the first expansion in the NHL and owns it's total existence to Chicago and the Wirtz family. The only reason the team was founded in the first place was because the Wirtzes owned the arena in St. Louis as well. Although they were the owners in Chicago, they wanted to put some use to that property they had in St. Louis, so we got the Blues. And Baltimore's still pissed! That's right everyone, we could have had hockey in Baltimore if it weren't for those stupid Hawks (just wait for that one... I hate the Hawks). So what can we learn from this? If your hockey team is founded on the fact that you're a little brother, you're probably screwed. Nashville 2 - St. Louis 0. There's no other city like Nashville on the planet. 

City: 

So the actual population of St. Louis is 319,294, but they pull one of those shitty things where they count their "whole metropolitan area" so they can inflate their numbers. So on a technicality, their population is 2,845,298. Many large corporations actually call St. Louis home... Really?! There wasn't any other place to go? One of these is Energizer, so the Blues can keep going and going and going and going without ever once winning the Stanley Cup. Oops sorry St. Louis. Is that a sore subject? As you can see from the picture below the only cool thing about St. Louis is the Arch. But seriously, if the most redeeming quality about your city is an arch, wow. Look to the left, see I told you... NOTHING. The best part of Missouri is the part that have the signs that say "Welcome to Tennessee" Nashville 3 - St. Louis 0. 

Famous People:

They're stacked here. Actually this is the only category that they can actually compete with Nashville. I mean, Bob Costas, Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, Mark Twain, and Nelly just to name a few. I mean Nelly dropped some "country grammar" on us and let us know that everyone in St. Louis thinks it's hot in herrrre. But they have an ace-in-the-hole with their most famous person, Scott Bakula. We all know and love him as Paul Blake in Necessary Roughness (if you haven't seen it check it out. It's an underrated movie). Here's a picture of him with Sinbad... Enjoy! You guessed it, I'll give this one a draw. They have some famous people in their arsenal. 

Hockey Team:

So they've made their playoffs once over the past six seasons. Yeah, enough said. Their best player may be their goalie Jaroslav Halak. I don't think I've ever been to a Preds game where we pronounce his name right when we tell him he sucks though. Their other "shining star" is David Backes who had 31 goals and 31 assists last year. I'm not going to spend a lot of time telling you about their hockey team though... They're really shitty. Nashville 4 - St. Louis 0

Fans:

There's no good fan videos or music video parodies. But we don't have music video/songs either. Why don't we? Come on Nashville, let's make some songs about our team! We're all talented. Oh well I'm giving us this one too because we just care more than their fans do. 

Final score 5-0 Nashville. Look for the Preds to go to 2-0 tonight. Go Preds!