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- 11/07/09
| Name: | J |
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| Location: | Near Toronto |
| Member since: | September 30, 2002 |
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fabulon7 has posted 4 links and 296 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 13 comments to the Locker Room.
Commentary on Zidane's gesture by Dany Laferrière: In the old, bloody fables of the Brothers Grimm, it was acceptable to have a red card ending. But today, in this strange epoch when everyone seems to have drunk Disney milk in their infancy, no one tolerates anything but rosy endings. Everything must finish happily. Our heroes must be loveable so that we can file them away in the cupboard of our happy memories. So where does that leave Zidane?
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Young rappers will surely introduce into their video clips the eight seconds where Zidane left the game to re-enter their stifling reality.
A whole different take on the Zidane incident...
posted by fabulon7 to soccer at 02:44 PM on July 20 - 70 comments
Scoring - Guy Lafleur: Scroll down to #266 -- Sept. 23.: From the anals of music history comes Montreal Canadians' skater Guy Lafleur's disastrous foray into hockey-instruction disco.
posted by fabulon7 to hockey at 09:12 AM on October 27 - 22 comments
8 Ways To Improve The NFL: It seems like everybody can suggest 8 ways to improve the NFL, and about 6 of these ways are always the same ideas.
posted by fabulon7 to football at 01:31 PM on May 06 - 11 comments
Angry soccer fans kill goaltender.: A teenage goalkeeper for Benin's national youth soccer team was killed by angry fans after a loss to Nigeria in a weekend match, officials said Tuesday. Samiou Yessoufou, 18, died Monday from injuries suffered when he was attacked a day earlier near his hotel in Benin's largest city, Cotonou, said Issa Hayatou, chief of the African Football Confederation.
posted by fabulon7 to soccer at 09:53 AM on January 18 - 12 comments
This was pretty interesting - just watched it. $30,000 on strippers, booze and cocaine in a single evening seems pretty epic to me.
posted by fabulon7 at 11:14 PM on October 20
It would be cool if they did the penalty announcements in four-part harmony. Or the "after review" announcements at least.
posted by fabulon7 at 10:39 AM on October 20
It was probably a drink menu. Or a map to the washroom. I imagine it's easy to get lost in that place.
posted by fabulon7 at 08:59 AM on September 29
Buffalo is enough to make me believe in the supernatural.
posted by fabulon7 at 10:48 PM on September 14
MeatSaber: I didn't realize that - that's really weird.
posted by fabulon7 at 02:22 PM on July 16
The NHL has to figure out how to call penalties in the finals without getting screamed at for determining the outcome of the game. Sooo much obstruction, holding, interference, etc. It made the finals more boring than it could have been. (Not that it was boring, but it wasn't the best series by a long shot.)
posted by fabulon7 at 10:12 PM on June 14
Berezin was awesome. Same move, every time. One year it worked 37 times. Other years, not so often.
posted by fabulon7 at 08:49 PM on May 18
Balsillie might be a little too confrontational about this, but I'd think he's probably guessing that he has no other choice. It's pretty clear that Gary really, really doesn't want him owning anything more substantial than Zamboni futures. So what's he going to do, ask nicely? He's already shown his hand - no one is going to believe he wants to buy a team that's staying in the USA.
Maybe the GTA can't support 3 franchises, but I think it stands a better chance than Kansas City, or whatever. Even so, I can't imagine the Sabres or the Leafs letting this happen. And maybe the league doesn't care so much what the Sabres think, but the Leafs pull a lot of water in this town. Balsillie doesn't pull shit.
posted by fabulon7 at 08:33 PM on May 07
This may be Guy's crowning achievment in disco.
I wish there were a "14 years? 2 minutes for looking so good!" joke in here.
posted by fabulon7 at 06:52 PM on May 01
I hoped the NHL would find a way to assign Don Koharski to referee it.
I was hoping for exactly the same thing.
posted by fabulon7 at 09:38 PM on April 26
So, they're replacing Madden, a guy who seemed to love everything to do with anything related to football, with Cris Collinsworth, a bitter ass of a man who seems to relish in complaining about and insulting everything he covers?
Smooth move.
posted by fabulon7 at 03:11 PM on April 16
I hope this works out for the Chiefs - they probably deserve it, but I have to believe it's a pretty big risk to take a QB who had one good year (under Belichick, with good receivers) at a salary this big.
posted by fabulon7 at 09:12 AM on March 02
I don't know. I think it almost paid off for the Jets. They looked great (often enough), Favre was playing well, people were talking about them and the Superbowl. Then he hurt his shoulder, he and the team played badly for the last quarter of the season, and they ended up barely out of the playoffs.
If he hadn't been hurt, they probably would have at least made the playoffs and the whole deal would have looked a lot more like a success.
Where they totally messed up, I think, was in not benching Favre. Mangini should have sat him. He couldn't throw. I'm sure he didn't want his consecutive game streak to end, but so what? Maybe without him they win one more game in their last 5, they make the playoffs, and he heals enough to play.
But as it stands, it looks like he retired a year too late.
posted by fabulon7 at 01:04 PM on February 13
Eating the Dinosaur
That was great. I really enjoyed it. I'm always looking to understand why I like football. This helped, I think.