Happy Hour Vid: Gibbs Sports a Canadian Hockey Jersey

John Hudson Mar 12, 2010
When Canada's hockey team beat the U.S. in the Winter Olympics, they won the right to gloat. Apparently, they also won the right to see our White House press secretary in a Canadian hockey jersey.

In the run up to the big game, there was "a crucial bet between White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and the Dmitri Soudas the spokesperson for Canada's Prime Minister," reports the Washington Examiner.  "As part of the bet the losing country's spokesperson would be forced to wear a jersey from the other country at a press briefing." Who said Canadians were too modest to win?

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