No apologies necessary. I’m flattered by the homage.
Are you one of the people who yells, “Go back to your farm, you hick!” at the Islander fans? They always crack me up. As if acid-washed jeans and a stained 1983 Rangers sweatshirt is such a cosmopolitan getup.
You must be kidding. Maple Leaf fans are the drunkest, most rabid sports fans I’ve ever seen. They’re also the dumbest and most homeriffic fans in pro sports, but there it is. They don’t have much to cheer for, of course, but when they do, they’re nuts.
Funny Monkey. But it is a hockey game not the VH1 Fashion Awards. The insult is not made towards their dress code but where they are from. They just happen to dress like a hick too. Its a regional thing and you should know that since you are in BKLYN. But I thought the 1983 sweatshirt would be on the Ilander fan since that was their last cup. Or are they now wearing the Fishstick jersey? No, it looks like the Pumpkin jersey will be the new fan favorite. Good, it makes it easier to spot them as morons. And just think the money they’ll save on lighting the house by hanging the jersey in the living room can go towards their over priced cable bill (which help pays for the Rangers payroll).
If you ever been up in the blues and it sounds like you may have, we come down hardest on our underadchieving players. We also have no problem telling our own fans that they suck. We know the old red seats are filled with corporate scum but when we see fans leave early around us we let them know we don’t approve. Hell, we even have Dancing Larry who gets nothing but abuse from us. Of course the morons in the lower seats think he’s great.
I have the issue right here; the August 1975 issue of National Geographic. After a passage describing the authors presence at a Leafs game with the club vice president William Ballard, the article continues:
However, this was written almost 30 years ago, as I stated before; MMV after that long a period, for sure.
Wasn’t enough in LA. They had a death there
They didn’t put up nets. As Elwood says, the law of diminishing returns.
JoeK,
AFAIK there is no rule about breaking glass. I haven’t noticed a lot more this year, is it just one team you’ve noticed? Teams switch suppliers and type of glass (seamless to the kind with the metal guides) and sometimes there is a transition. IIRC a few years ago the MSG glass popped out a lot more than it does now. [sub] right, Janet G? Watch the game! [/sub]
** NYR407 **,
That your section? Used to share a pair in 422. Directly across the blue line from Larry. We were starting to plan to smuggle in a sniper rifle..... [sub] Potvin's hit was clean. Hell, wasn't that long before we had someone who KILLED a guy, and busted Espo up. [/sub]
** RickJay **,
You, sir, have never been to Philadelphia.
I will admit your radio talk programs are ten times nastier than NY ones.
Well, some third jerseys aren’t bad. Toronto’s are pretty nice, and Ottawa’s are alright. However, I concur as far as Boston goes - Winnie Must Die.
And hey, at least the Leafs are starting to…uh…suck less.
Looks like I struck a nerve! You don’t have to explain to me the semantic aims in calling the Islander fans hicks. After all, I grew up on Long Island, and many of us do come from towns named Hicksville or Farmingdale. (note to outside observers: these are real towns). I just meant that if you are going to tease someone for being “rural”, you need to be minimally dapper. Don’t even get me started on your team. We could go on forever about that.
Waiting for TB to score,
Monkeypants
As it happens, several people have been killed or grievously injured in numerous small towns in Canada as a result of deflected pucks. This is not to say that the NHL isn’t right to want to take steps to lessen the inherent risk involved in watching hockey; merely that they’ve gone about it - as usual - in a completely bass-ackward way.
The main reason people - especially those of tender years, as the poor girl in Ohio - are more likely to get hit these days by pucks has nothing to do with the Synergy stick or any other improvement in equipment technology. It has everything to do with the myriad pointless and distracting shit that goes on in American hockey arenas: cheerleaders, inflatable remote-controlled dirrigibles dispensing prizes, etc. All of these things have exactly sweet fuck all to do with the game on the ice, and serve only to distract the attention of those who are already dangerously unaware of the (admittedly low) possibility of getting hit by errant pucks.
The NHL needs to learn:
- that the entertainment part is supposed to be happening on the ice, and
- that the reason it’s not is that they’ve expanded too much and too far to allow the talent to catch up, or the audience to gain clue one as to what’s going on the game.
Gary Bettman is such an asshole.
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No, that happens everywhere, even in well-established cities without the distractions. People who get seats at work who aren’t real fans and don’t pay attention sit down near the ice.(** NYR407, ** Can I get a “Red seats s***” ?) A while back, a friend got a hold of some corporates about 15 rows up in the NJ Swamplands. Pretty similar to Ms. Cecil’s seats. We went with a newbie, and told him “Do NOT look at us when you talk if the puck is in play. You CAN get hit, and hurt.” A lot of people where we were were not always paying attention, they were talking on cell phones, looking away, etc.
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When you’re right, you’re right.
This is totally a non-sequitir, but every time I see this thread title I think it says Various Hockey Pants and the mental image it brings up is priceless.
Go Sharks!
Understood Monkey although I never thought of being “urban” the same as being dapper. Thanks though you just reminded me that I have to get my tuxedo out of the cleaners for Friday nights Buffalo game. 
Oh and only Ranger fans can complain about their team. The others already get the satisfaction of us losing.
Lurker, yeah that’s my section. Don’t get me started on Larry.
Red seats suck!!! BTW a guy in our section won the Seat Upgrade contest and we tried to get him not to go or send Larry in his place. He went any way but the seats weren’t even that good. They weren’t even red seats and 1/2 the ice view was behind the new netting.
To the people in the Canadiens head office:
I hear that you are considering trading Jeff Hackett.
Are you on fucking glue?
Jeff Hackett is 5-3-2 / .931 sp / 2.41GAA while a struggling Theodore is 5-7-2 with an .887 sp and 3.52GAA.
Sure, Theodore won the Hart and Vezina and you just inked a $16,000,000 deal with the phenom BUT he hasn’t been playing anywhere near his potential.
Hackett has been saving your asses.
Don’t make me come down there…