Picture it. It's 6pm on a Monday night. Do you know where your husband is? Common sense would dictate that he should be on his way home from work or sitting around the table with his family enjoying a scrumptious meal. But, ladies and gentleman, if he's from the "Left" Coast then he's most likely enjoying another Monday Night Football game. Welcome to Pacific Standard Time.

After being "promoted" by the boss to expand the FourSport.ca offices in the West Coast everything has been a little bit of an adjustment. Don't get me wrong; this is Canada's best kept secret: the Pacific Ocean splashing against our doorstep, the Rocky Mountains in the backdrop and the 2010 Olympics soon on the way. But watching football at 6pm on a Monday evening? Boss, come on now, doesn't that sound a little ridiculous?

This problem first hit me when I had just arrived in beautiful British Columbia and was watching one of the games of the World Hockey Championships. It was 4:00pm and I kept looking outside wondering why on God's green earth was I watching hockey in what felt like the middle of the day. No one around me of course seemed to mind as beers and cheers filled the room. I just sat there hopelessly in the middle of it all very confused. When I asked my new found Vancouverite friends if they had a problem with it many of them just shrugged their shoulders rudely at me, perhaps because I interrupted their hockey watching, and passed me a beer to shut me up.

You see being born and raised on the east coast meant that I was in the center of the world. With Toronto, New York, Washington and all the other major cities along the eastern seaboard in my time zone, it pretty much meant that all major events were coordinated around us and to hell with the rest of the country. Heck, even the upcoming Oscars will be timed earlier in the afternoon so that it fits into the prime time schedule of the East Coast. Of course money has a lot to do with this, as a large majority of North Americans live kitty corner to the Atlantic Ocean and because of that, the networks cater to our every whim.

	The Patriots Super Bowl win was shown in a different light in Vancouver. (Source: NFL.com)

The Super Bowl was an excellent example of where some of us got together to watch the game and pre game ceremonies at 2:30 in the afternoon. Watching the game on television was weird because I was seeing Jacksonville in complete darkness when Vancouver's grey clouds were yet again preventing the sun from shinning through. I know I know a lot of you probably think that I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and nothing is going to change. Well partly you're right. Nothing much can be done. There's no way in the world the networks are going to start re-scheduling games to 11pm just to appease the population of a few on the west coast so that we can actually enjoy a Monday "Night" Football game as opposed to an evening one.

But revenge is sweet folks. Five years from now, we on the west coast, are going to start seeing things go are way. With the advent of the 2010 Winter Olympics soon on its way the Games are to be scheduled around our time and not Toronto's. I'm looking forward to the fact that I'll be able to see the Canadian Olympic team beat the Americans again during prime time as opposed to during my naptime in the afternoon. So can I wait till then? Probably. The boss has told me that I should get comfortable in my new home as he sees me here for the near future. I like my job so I guess I really have no choice.

So if you'll excuse me it's a weekday afternoon and somewhere there's a game on. Does it matter who's playing? Nope…. but it's a damn good reason to get out of work early.