BREAKING: Hockey on New Year’s Day?
CBS’ Bryan Fischer directs you to the seven-minute mark of this CBS Sports video, where you will find NHL commissioner Gary Bettman making the following statement regarding the Winter Classic: “To have imagined that the event would be this spectacular, particularly when you’re there, to imagine that we would own New Year’s Day, which used to be for college football, nobody could have imagined it.”
Securing “ownership” of Jan. 1 became a little easier, we suppose, when no college football games were played on New Year’s Day 2012. Hockey’s case is somewhat weakened, however, by not having played on New Year’s Day 2012 either for fear of competing poorly against Sunday NFL games.
