Hiya hockey pals, and welcome once again to beautiful Vancouver British Columbia, where you'll find the home of the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League! Today the beans traveled North to see their beloved Seattle Thunderbirds take on the Giants. The beans enjoy the fast-paced action of hockey, and yes -- they do occasionally find the fighting to be amusing. But they'd never condone canned vegetables duking it out; that could be ugly. (Besides, the beans could whip canned carrots with hand tied behind their label.)

But while the beans were in Vancouver, they had the great fortune to run into a true sports stadium legend, "World's Sexiest Professional Cheerleader", (his words, not mine...) 'Krazy George' Henderson. If you've ever seen a televised sporting (or sucked it up and actually paid the $60 it takes to get through the door for pro sporting events nowadays), you've probably seen Krazy George leading the crowd in one of his cheers. He's the cheerleader for the Oakland A's and Minnesota Vikings, and he spends most of the year hopping from arena to stadium to ice rink in a quest for team spirit.

K.G. also claims to be the inventor of The Wave, the stand up/sit down/stand up motion made popular at sports stadiums everywhere in the late 80's. Of course, there are countless others (including the U of Washington) who also say that they invented this drunken-afternoon-when-the-game-is-dull pastime, but George says he has proof that he was first, so we won't get into that argument. Next thing you know, we'll be debating over "tastes great" or "less filling", and nobody really wants to rehash that again.

Anyway, the beans thought it was cool to meet Krazy George, and they sincerely thank him for stopping for a photo. Now, will you please put that tambourine away? You're giving the beans a killer migraine...

The beans were also lucky enough to meet a true NHL God, or at least the 6-inch tall bobble-head variety of a hockey deity. This is the official "Mr. Hockey" Gordie Howe bobble-head doll, won by our lucky BATW Ambassador John. Mini-Gordie is holding a plastic rendition of the Stanley Cup, which while cool, would look much better if he was sporting beans instead.

Since they've always dreamed of being immortalized as a sports collectible, the frijoles were hoping that Mattell would make a bobble-head doll out of them one day, but finally realized that it wouldn't look good to have black beans spewing every time they nodded, so that plan was scrapped. But watch for the official BATW Black Bean holographic limited-edition trading cards, coming this Christmas to a mall near you.