random SPORTS thoughts

[RayRay]

Wiscy -5' 2h

 

[bacon]

It's nice to actually be in a tie hockey game with a good team because we actually started a competent goalie this time.

That's right Mason. I'm sorry, you suck now.

 

[bacon]

Wait, no.

We just suck.

 

[roguejuror]

FSU lose today and they out the playoffs?

 

[Mudcat]

 

[bacon]

yap

 

[Tron]

You guys see Hugh Freeze giving an interview after Ole Miss won?

His name is Hugh Freeze.

Hugh.


Freeze.


Then a a guy named Urban Meyer.

Urban Meyer.


His first name is Urban.

Urban

 

[Mudcat]

Guys with adjectives for first names, whether real or idiomatic, especially when followed by a last name which is a noun ---> for the win.

 

[Mudcat]

Does NFL ref Ed Hochuli have the nickname, Leaping? Or did I make that up? I say it every time I see him but I'm not sure how it started. Leaping Ed Hochuli.

Sounds like something I prolly made up

 

[bacon]

I think his nickname is "The Big Cheese"

 

[roguejuror]

derrick rose ot 3pt buzzer

double ot

 

[Mudcat]

So no more Buffalo Bills games in Toronto for the foreseeable future. Unhappy with giving up a home game every year to play in front of smaller, indifferent crowds at the Rogers Center, they negotiated out of the remaining years of the existing agreement and that shaky chapter in sports history is dun.

 

[Matty]

I always think there is some weird convoluted story behind quirky American names like Urban Meyer.

But you're telling me that no, his parents just wanted to name him Urban.

Hey Urban. S'up Urban.

Okay.

 

[kato]

named after the pope(s)

 

[Matty]

So no more Buffalo Bills games in Toronto for the foreseeable future. Unhappy with giving up a home game every year to play in front of smaller, indifferent crowds at the Rogers Center, they negotiated out of the remaining years of the existing agreement and that shaky chapter in sports history is dun.

I guess it made sense as an experimental just-the-tip penetration of the Toronto market.

There has to be a hugh market for it here.

Give us a team you teases.

 

[Matty]

named after the pope(s)

That's even worse.

 

[bacon]

The Toronto just-the-tips

 

[Matty]

Trivia time

53 players have maintained an average of at least a point per game in the NHL (min. 500 career points)

Of those 53, how many are American? Bonus points if you name them.