2008/2009 NikiMcBee Memorial NFL Thread

AVGWarhawk · 12-15-08, 10:19 AM

My dad took me to the games back in the late 70's. Back then is was Memorial Stadium and the Baltimore Colts. My very first game I watched had OJ Simpson playing

. Anyway, I remember those games with my dad and freezing my butt off. I want my girls to remember going to sporting events like I do.

ReallyDedPoet · 12-15-08, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I want my girls to remember going to sporting events like I do.

Yeah, I hope to take my three boys to an NHL game in the not so distant future, for reasons you mentioned.

The only thing that still bugs me about it is the amount of
money that professional athletes make, but when you strip away all of the bull****
and you just have the game, it's still a great experience\thing.

RDP

1480 · 12-17-08, 01:16 AM

The reason hockey will always be #1 in my eyes, proud to be a life long Black Hawks fan, and of the NHL, impeach Bettman PLEASE!

In the middle of a grueling six game road trip where a very young hockey team is away from home, the third game of the trip ends late on a cold Canadian Saturday night. This is the only break on the trip and the three days between games allow them the only break to get back home in their own beds for a couple of days before going back on the road. A scheduled commercial flight waits for them at Toronto 's International Airport for the short flight home; they could be home by midnight. This plane departs on schedule, but without a single member of the hockey team.

Back in the locker room a vote is taken after the game was complete, and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no heat and begin a journey two hours straight north into a sparsely inhabited Canada, but where hockey is its passion. They arrive at their destination to the surprise of the teams general manager who is there attending his fathers wake.

After a few emotional hours, this team boards the buses and head back for a two-hour trip back to Toronto . On the way they ask the drivers to stop in a tiny Canadian town because they are hungry. To the shock of the patrons and workers at this small hockey town McDonald's, a professional team walks out of two rickety buses and into the restaurant, which just happens to have pictures of two members of this team on its wall. The patrons know every single one of these players by sight being fanatic fans of hockey in these parts. One can only imagine their amazement of the locals seeing and entire professional hockey team sit down and have a meal in their tiny little town in the middle of a hockey season. After a while they board the buses and catch their same flight 24 hours later, giving one day to their general manager.

Have I made this up, is this an excerpt from some fictional book? No this a true story of the Blackhawks last Saturday night and they decided to attend Dale Tallon's fathers funeral. Its amazing that such a good story can be found nowhere on the internet, and not even mentioned in the Chicago papers. Had one of the Blackhawks got into a fight and punched some drunken loser in a Toronto bar it would be plastered all over papers and the television. This being said, its hard to imagine any professional football, basketball or baseball team doing this, but the members of the Blackhawks claim any "hockey" team would have done this.

http://blackhawks.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?catid=690&id=27938

magic452 · 12-17-08, 03:22 AM

Great story 1480. Only in hockey.

You are dead on about the press.
The only news is bad news.

Good for the Black Hawks, one of my favorite
teams. Right behind my San Jose Sharks. They are doing good this year.

Magic452
A west coast Black Hawks fan.

ReallyDedPoet · 12-17-08, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 1480

They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no heat and begin a journey two hours straight north into a sparsely inhabited Canada, but where hockey is its passion.

That's quite the story.

Hockey comes with the territory here. I have three boys, two play hockey. The other cannot because he has Cerebral Palsy, but loves the game all the same. I coach the two who do play and although it is a lot of work, I would not want it any other way. It's great to be on the ice with them.

There is nothing like going to the rink on a Saturday morning in the midst of a cold Canadian Winter.

Go Leafs

RDP

nikimcbee · 12-22-08, 12:41 AM

Congrats to Rick for winning the torpedo bowl I. subsim FF.

Onkel Neal · 12-22-08, 01:01 AM

Yay, Raiders!

AVGWarhawk · 12-22-08, 07:15 AM

GO RAVENS. One more game with Jacksonville=win=playoff berth

RickC Sniper · 12-23-08, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Congrats to Rick for winning the torpedo bowl I. subsim FF.

Thanks Jason.

12-17-08, 01:16 AM	#3
1480 Lead Slinger Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chitcago, Illinoise Posts: 1,442 Downloads: 74 Uploads: 0	The reason hockey will always be #1 in my eyes, proud to be a life long Black Hawks fan, and of the NHL, impeach Bettman PLEASE! In the middle of a grueling six game road trip where a very young hockey team is away from home, the third game of the trip ends late on a cold Canadian Saturday night. This is the only break on the trip and the three days between games allow them the only break to get back home in their own beds for a couple of days before going back on the road. A scheduled commercial flight waits for them at Toronto 's International Airport for the short flight home; they could be home by midnight. This plane departs on schedule, but without a single member of the hockey team. Back in the locker room a vote is taken after the game was complete, and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no heat and begin a journey two hours straight north into a sparsely inhabited Canada, but where hockey is its passion. They arrive at their destination to the surprise of the teams general manager who is there attending his fathers wake. After a few emotional hours, this team boards the buses and head back for a two-hour trip back to Toronto . On the way they ask the drivers to stop in a tiny Canadian town because they are hungry. To the shock of the patrons and workers at this small hockey town McDonald's, a professional team walks out of two rickety buses and into the restaurant, which just happens to have pictures of two members of this team on its wall. The patrons know every single one of these players by sight being fanatic fans of hockey in these parts. One can only imagine their amazement of the locals seeing and entire professional hockey team sit down and have a meal in their tiny little town in the middle of a hockey season. After a while they board the buses and catch their same flight 24 hours later, giving one day to their general manager. Have I made this up, is this an excerpt from some fictional book? No this a true story of the Blackhawks last Saturday night and they decided to attend Dale Tallon's fathers funeral. Its amazing that such a good story can be found nowhere on the internet, and not even mentioned in the Chicago papers. Had one of the Blackhawks got into a fight and punched some drunken loser in a Toronto bar it would be plastered all over papers and the television. This being said, its hard to imagine any professional football, basketball or baseball team doing this, but the members of the Blackhawks claim any "hockey" team would have done this. http://blackhawks.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?catid=690&id=27938 __________________ Last edited by 1480; 12-17-08 at 01:27 AM.

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nikimcbee Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Patroling the Slot. Posts: 17,952 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Congrats to Rick for winning the torpedo bowl I. subsim FF. __________________

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,291 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	GO RAVENS. One more game with Jacksonville=win=playoff berth __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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12-15-08, 10:19 AM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,291 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	My dad took me to the games back in the late 70's. Back then is was Memorial Stadium and the Baltimore Colts. My very first game I watched had OJ Simpson playing. Anyway, I remember those games with my dad and freezing my butt off. I want my girls to remember going to sporting events like I do. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

12-17-08, 03:22 AM	#4
magic452 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Reno Nevada USA Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Great story 1480. Only in hockey. You are dead on about the press. The only news is bad news. Good for the Black Hawks, one of my favorite teams. Right behind my San Jose Sharks. They are doing good this year. Magic452 A west coast Black Hawks fan.