Ahhh, Russia. Home of borscht, vodka, and... ice skating bears?
Apparently, grizzly bear ice hockey is something of a national past time in Russia. According to a write up in The New York Times, it works much like traditional hockey, replete with sticks, pucks, numbered jerseys, a jam-packed arena, and a (brave) human referee. Admittedly, the bears spend the bulk of their time looking for the regulation-sized puck, which seems downright diminutive beneath their large legs.
This may be news to us, but bears balancing their burly frames on ice skates dates way back to 1962 when the Moscow Circus on Ice played a bear ice hockey game at New York's Madison Square Garden. Watch these grizzlies get all Gretzky on the ice:
Apparently, grizzly bear ice hockey is something of a national past time in Russia. According to a write up in The New York Times, it works much like traditional hockey, replete with sticks, pucks, numbered jerseys, a jam-packed arena, and a (brave) human referee. Admittedly, the bears spend the bulk of their time looking for the regulation-sized puck, which seems downright diminutive beneath their large legs.
This may be news to us, but bears balancing their burly frames on ice skates dates way back to 1962 when the Moscow Circus on Ice played a bear ice hockey game at New York's Madison Square Garden. Watch these grizzlies get all Gretzky on the ice:
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I think this was cruel sorry didn't find it amusing at all.
I found this to be horrifying! Those poor bears. I agree that this is cruel and not at all funny :-/