2008/2009 NikiMcBee Memorial NFL Thread - Page 18

ReallyDedPoet · 12-14-08, 07:52 PM

Wonder how AVG is doing, it was a close one in Baltimore

Packers fell again, oh well, bring on 09'

RDP

AVGWarhawk · 12-15-08, 09:09 AM

Bum call RDP at the end. I was right at the end zone and watched the "touchdown" that will live in infamy. The ball did not break the line.

They should have gone with the original call. No matter, the squealers probably would have scored anyway. Not to mention we had several opportunities in the red zone to close the deal. We did not deliver. But, we are still in playoff contention and I'm pleased with our players. Flacco is a young budding QB. He will do well. We can only get better from the experience against the toughest defense in the league.

Opening madhouse show to start the game:

My two Ravens fans at the game yesterday!

ReallyDedPoet · 12-15-08, 09:34 AM

Nice pics there AVG. Must have been neat to be there and for your two girls to share in the experience.

I'll have to check out the highlights, the game was not televised
in my area. There were 3-4 games to pick from, but not this one

RDP

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

Quote:

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

Quote:

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

Aramike · 12-22-08, 07:33 AM

Cool thread. HUGE hockey fan here. I follow the Nashville Predators and make it down to the United Center for a couple Preds/Hawks games annually.

Past that, I'm a Packers nut. This MNF game vs. the Bears is meaningless ... but next week, should we lose to the Lions, well ...

AVGWarhawk · 12-22-08, 08:37 AM

You will not lose to the Lions. Why would they want to bust up that wonderful record they have with a win? :rotfl:

ReallyDedPoet · 12-22-08, 08:47 AM

A win is a win, specially with the season we have had, go Pack

RDP

nikimcbee · 12-22-08, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aramike

Cool thread. HUGE hockey fan here. I follow the Nashville Predators and make it down to the United Center for a couple Preds/Hawks games annually.

Past that, I'm a Packers nut. This MNF game vs. the Bears is meaningless ... but next week, should we lose to the Lions, well ...

Welcome to the thread.

Cheez-heads vs Bears! I say Blago buys off the refs... Da bears by 20.

12-14-08, 07:52 PM	#256
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,886 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	Wonder how AVG is doing, it was a close one in Baltimore Packers fell again, oh well, bring on 09' RDP __________________ Back in the Day

12-15-08, 09:09 AM	#257
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,266 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Bum call RDP at the end. I was right at the end zone and watched the "touchdown" that will live in infamy. The ball did not break the line. They should have gone with the original call. No matter, the squealers probably would have scored anyway. Not to mention we had several opportunities in the red zone to close the deal. We did not deliver. But, we are still in playoff contention and I'm pleased with our players. Flacco is a young budding QB. He will do well. We can only get better from the experience against the toughest defense in the league. Opening madhouse show to start the game: My two Ravens fans at the game yesterday! __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road Last edited by AVGWarhawk; 12-15-08 at 09:10 AM.

12-15-08, 09:34 AM	#258
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,886 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	Nice pics there AVG. Must have been neat to be there and for your two girls to share in the experience. I'll have to check out the highlights, the game was not televised in my area. There were 3-4 games to pick from, but not this one RDP __________________ Back in the Day

12-15-08, 10:19 AM	#259
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,266 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, 01:16 AM	#261
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.

12-17-08, 03:22 AM	#262
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.

12-22-08, 12:41 AM	#264
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. __________________

12-22-08, 01:01 AM	#265
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12-22-08, 07:15 AM	#266
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,266 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

12-22-08, 07:33 AM	#267
Aramike Ocean Warrior Best of SUBSIM Chairman Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 3,207 Downloads: 59 Uploads: 0	Cool thread. HUGE hockey fan here. I follow the Nashville Predators and make it down to the United Center for a couple Preds/Hawks games annually. Past that, I'm a Packers nut. This MNF game vs. the Bears is meaningless ... but next week, should we lose to the Lions, well ...

12-22-08, 08:37 AM	#268
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,266 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	You will not lose to the Lions. Why would they want to bust up that wonderful record they have with a win? :rotfl: __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

12-22-08, 08:47 AM	#269
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,886 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	A win is a win, specially with the season we have had, go Pack RDP __________________ Back in the Day