Behind The Awkwardness: Hockey Mom
January 21st, 2010
“This is a photo of my mom, my brother, myself, and my soon to be born younger brother. I’m awkwardly in the hockey equipment on the bottom left. A family friend talked mom into having us all pose for this photo. It went on to win some sort of award in a Newport, RI photo show. It also hung in our house while I was growing up, which made for some awkward moments when friends came over.”
(submitted by Sean)
This has to be one of the most awkward photos I’ve seen in a while. I mean, I’m all for being proud of being pregnant, and I even found Demi Moore’s Vanity Fair thing very artistic. But…my brain hurts.
I think this is hilarious – both for its awkwardness but also for its composition. The stereotype of a hockey mom building a team. I’m not sure if she is looking exhausted or bewildered… Awkward factor goes way up in actually hanging it where visitors could see it!
Wow, That’s all I have…WOW.
this is so wrong in so many ways.
I think I saw this in a “Highlights” magazine…one of those “What’s Wrong with this Picture” installments. This is obviously Goofus and Gallant’s Mom.
LMAO!!!
I may be wrong but I think I see nipple.
You are correct!
oh please sean, explain why your brother has no arm?
Those boys should have cross-checked the cameraman before he could take the photo.
Pun intended???
God bless her. Pregnancy hormones can make you do some weird stuff…and commemorate it forever on film.
This photo scares me.
Dad shoots….HE SCORES!!!!
Mom’s preggers and older bro has his catching mitt on – ready set …. push!
Well, the average American family has 2.4 children, so this snapshot is right on time …
Please, please tell us what award did this photo win?
I am dying to know this too!!
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Wrong on so many levels….creepy
The explaination is not enough…what award? What was the photographer going for in the shot? It is so strange I have to know more!
Anybody notice that there’s only one big, hulking shadow on the sheet behind them? I guess it could be preggo mom, but at first glance, it looked like someone behind the sheet to me. Totally weird!
That’s the shadow of the photographer it looks like whatever lighting source they used to take this monstrosity was actually behind the photographer.
No, I’m pretty sure that someone took a photo of the framed original photograph; that’s a reflection, likely of the now-grown Sean, in the glass of the frame. You can see the head, the two hands, and the camera.
I guess Mom didn’t let him take the car that night.
..oh yeah, Mom? I’ll show YOU!
Awwwww
poor little boys, there is no way to fix this
this ‘family friend’ who concocted this photo shoot- has he ever spent any time in prison?
hahahahahahahahaha! And yes. Yes he has.
I just noticed there’s an explanation under it by one of the boys in the picture. It doesn’t ease the pain any though. Even more awkward that it hung in their living room while they were growing up. I’m surprised he had any friends over!
At least it wasn’t in the Dining Room!
Why? Just… why?
What the puck?
NICE!!!
Really? These kids have to be hoping that they won’t be recognized under their facemasks. Oh my Lord, what were the parents thinking?
I can’t stop looking at it. I just want to understand.
Maybe a sports bra would have been more appropriate?
AGREED!!!!
A prime example of why hockey moms should politely remain in the crowd.
I am stunned, just stunned. There are no words to describe how stunned I am.
Looks like Hockey Goddess wants you to know that she begat two future stars… but forgot that preggo goddesses usually update their hairdo every century or two.
OhMyWOW!!! I just don’t even have the words!
There are no words except WEIRD.
and I must add I’m crazy about hockey but don’t see the point of just wearing the pants.lol…..in any picture.
Wow, and taking the AWKWARD award!.. the right arm thing is bizarre, and I just don’t understand the moms attire.. definite FAV..
she had to go with the bra. obviously, she lives somewhere cold where bamboo doesn’t grow.
Good one ammy!!!!!
I am all for a belly shot when you’re pregnant but this is just creepy! There is no way I’d go topless in front of my boys and yet she’s getting photos made! Who wants to see this picture anyway? I can see a picture like this maybe by herself, only to be viewed by her and hubby but this is ridiculous!
Palin family Christmas card???
HA!!
What in the name of god could have been going on here? This is the first time that I really, really need to know a backstory to one of these photos!
What The Puck???
I have two (grown) sons and I can assure you they would have taken a slapshot to the groin rather than pose with me like that!
Lipstick.
ummmmm
There are so many things wrong with this I don’t know where to being.
Just for grins, lets start with her socks.
W… T… *…?
This is a weeeeird photo! Taken at home by dad (considering the sheet in the background).
Besides, the guy on the right has no right arm. (or it was photoshopped out to add to the mysteria)
Why this?
OMG no arm! You’re right! And he’s not!
Wow. No way I would take a bare belly shot while pregnant, and certainly not like that with my two sons.
Really? Why? Now i will never look at a hockey player the same again!
…but little Wayne secretly wanted to be a dancer.
I’d be OK with this if she was topless.
You would?
With her kids? Oh my.
…and without her two sons there. I bet they were happy for the masks to (kind of) hide behind.
Kneel before me, young Knights of Areola.
LMAO!
The best comment!
Looks like someone definitely pulled the goalie.
Hilarious!
WIN!!!
FTW… still laughing…
And it’s dad with the hat-trick!!!
Bingo!!!
I am speechless…there’s so much wrong about this photo I actually don’t know where to begin. Why the bra???
I, for one, am thankful she has it on!
Why the pants? or Just – why?
I actually didn’t know they were hockey pants at first. I thought the two hockey boys supposedly went to town on her, tearing her sweatpants and knocking her up in the process. Talk about awkward.