OT: One More Off Topic Off Season Thread

[Drivesaitl]

I didn't watch the fight tonight, but Tyson looked slow and cooked 20 years ago. I can't imagine why people thought he would look any different.

But anyways, all these Jake Paul fights are lax exhibition matches to make two fighters easy money.

Yeah, this. Was an easy bet Tyson was going to lose this to a much younger opponent. Tyson hasn't been top rung for ages. In anycase Tyson hasn't had the explosive speed and ability to get inside for decades.

Mike Tyson is 58yrs old. Who could even imagine climbing into the ring at that age? He's within years of being a senior. Jake Paul is 27yrs old, prime of life, not even HALF of Tysons age.

I watched extended highlights. Honestly for his age Tyson did well and even got some head shots in. What were people expecting?

 

[Drivesaitl]

I think that at 50 he would've won. 58 is a whole different ball game. I wonder what a rangier fighter like Lewis would look like in this kind of a fight?

Lewis 59 now but with more range. Its interesting and for some reason I hadn't given it much thought till now but Lennox Lewis is OLDER than Mike Tyson. It never looked that way in the fights. Yeah, Lewis has a better chance with the lethal jab and range Just his size and wingspan could corner Jake more. It would be over. Doesn't need to get inside to win.

 

[timekeep]

Tyson didn't have his legs under him. Whether it was age or an injury it wasn't a good thing for him.

It was great for him, Jake got him $20m according to the rumors.

 

[TheGingaNinja]

It was great for him, Jake got him $20m according to the rumors.

Jake got $40 million apparently. So so boxer, but the kid is a great promoter.

 

[oilers'72]

Siblings revive one of Alberta's oldest general stores

One of Alberta's oldest general stores, Johnny's Store in Namao, served as a gathering spot since 1902, Owner Julie-Ann McNeilly says it's coming back strong this month.

calgary.citynews.ca

"It’s a brisk, bright autumn morning when Julie-Ann McNeilly comes barrelling down a dirt road, steps out of her van and dives deep into the history of Johnny’s Store.

Built in 1902, the shop is believed to be one of the oldest in Alberta and has long served as a gathering spot in the hamlet of Namao, just north of Edmonton. At one time, it also housed a post office, and McNeilly’s grandmother worked as one of Alberta’s first postmistresses.

Its ownership changed hands a few times, she says. Her family took possession in the 1930s after her great-uncle became shopkeeper."

 

[timekeep]

Jake got $40 million apparently. So so boxer, but the kid is a great promoter.

As much as I wanted to see him get knocked out, I have to give him credit. Scary part is that he probably could himself elected.

 

[Stoneman89]

I haven't come across the Channing version, but I did hear snippets from Cass Elliot, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Liza Minnelli, The Bachelors, Jim Nabors, Kelsey Grammar (as Dr. Fraser Crane), Sonny & Cher, Thog (from the Muppets Show) singing to Julie Andrews, Pepe the King Prawn and Fozzie Bear (from the Muppets Show), Captain & Tennille, Kaye Ballard, Rob Reider, Betty Chung, Nini Rosso, various amateur cover videos, instrumentals (including ukulele), some dance videos and karioke.

Consider yourself fortunate Don't go down that rabbit hole.

 

[Slats432]

Next up for Jake Paul: Larry Holmes.

 

[Stoneman89]

Next up for Jake Paul: Larry Holmes.

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And then when he wins that one, he and George Foreman can go at it with electric frying pans.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Or about as long as the Maple Leafs will wait between Cups.

 

[bellagiobob]

Loved that show. Balls to the walls, they beat themselves up pretty good. The documentary on the show is really good too.

 

[timekeep]

Loved that show. Balls to the walls, they beat themselves up pretty good. The documentary on the show is really good too.

It was a good documentary.

 

[bellagiobob]

Pretty much every kid took a frozen orange Esposito ball to the nuts during street hockey at least once in their life. It was a right of passage.

 

[Fourier]

Pretty much every kid took a frozen orange Esposito ball to the nuts during street hockey at least once in their life. It was a right of passage.

For us it was old frozen tennis balls. Those orange balls were for rich kids only!!!

Street hockey today looks very different in my area. Fancy nets instead of chunks of ice or if you were pushing it garbage cans, and goalies have equipment. Kids with expensive sticks too. Nothing like a blade half ground down from taking slapshots off the asphalt.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Pretty much every kid took a frozen orange Esposito ball to the nuts during street hockey at least once in their life. It was a right of passage.

I had my nose completely shattered and flattened requiring emergency surgery on my 18th birthday by a frozen orange hockey ball shot by my late brother. Blood everywhere and a several days in hospital. Happy birthday….

 

[Fourier]

I had my nose completely shattered and flattened requiring emergency surgery on my 18th birthday by a frozen orange hockey ball shot by my late brother. Blood everywhere and a several days in hospital. Happy birthday….

Its amazing that anyone older than 50 is still alive.

 

[bellagiobob]

For us it was old frozen tennis balls. Those orange balls were for rich kids only!!!

Street hockey today looks very different in my area. Fancy nets instead of chunks of ice or if you were pushing it garbage cans, and goalies have equipment. Kids with expensive sticks too. Nothing like a blade half ground down from taking slapshots off the asphalt.

For our crowd it was mainly tennis balls as well, and goal posts were usually just built up piles of snow that would get flattened by the various neighborhood parents driving by, oblivious to what they stood for. They always got a Bronx cheer as they drove by. Usually had two sticks, one with a fuller blade for winter, and the beloved and perfectly filed down toothpick stick for spring grass hockey, where we moved up to the big time with home made nets. Was always crushing when someone stepped on your toothpick stick and cracked the blade, and you’d use whatever resources were at your disposal to salvage it. Would never be the same though, and you’d have to start the long process of breaking in the next one.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

For our crowd it was mainly tennis balls as well, and goal posts were usually just built up piles of snow that would get flattened by the various neighborhood parents driving by, oblivious to what they stood for. They always got a Bronx cheer as they drove by. Usually had two sticks, one with a fuller blade for winter, and the beloved and perfectly filed down toothpick stick for spring grass hockey, where we moved up to the big time with home made nets. Was always crushing when someone stepped on your toothpick stick and cracked the blade, and you’d use whatever resources were at your disposal to salvage it. Would never be the same though, and you’d have to start the long process of breaking in the next one.

I still have a couple of toothpick sticks in the garage from my boys and I when we would play street hockey out front. A bunch of kids who played on my two eldest sons teams lived down the street and around the block so it was street hockey central on our front street for ages, and the metal garage overhead door has the dents from many a frozen hockey ball hitting it. I think we lost 1,000 tennis balls in the snow over the years as well.

 

[timekeep]

For our crowd it was mainly tennis balls as well, and goal posts were usually just built up piles of snow that would get flattened by the various neighborhood parents driving by, oblivious to what they stood for. They always got a Bronx cheer as they drove by. Usually had two sticks, one with a fuller blade for winter, and the beloved and perfectly filed down toothpick stick for spring grass hockey, where we moved up to the big time with home made nets. Was always crushing when someone stepped on your toothpick stick and cracked the blade, and you’d use whatever resources were at your disposal to salvage it. Would never be the same though, and you’d have to start the long process of breaking in the next one.

I remember the let down of having the tennis ball pop over your toothpick blade on an open net to win the game.

 

[TheGingaNinja]

We used to use the plastic blade attachments for our street hockey sticks. Lasted so much longer. Many hours were spent with a lighter getting the curves just right, lol.

 

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[Bryanbryoil]

Those are awesome!

 

[brentashton]

Those are awesome!

That was the one ride at the annual fair I would ride again and again.

I recall a time I was too short and got into the car and couldn’t reach the pedal. Stood still for 3 minutes and got the shit rammed out of me from all directions.

The lap belt save me.

 

[brentashton]

We used to use the plastic blade attachments for our street hockey sticks. Lasted so much longer. Many hours were spent with a lighter getting the curves just right, lol.

When I was older (probably in my 20s) the Gretzky Oiler era Titan stick was a good road hockey stick because it had that plastic insert that ran the length of the bottom of the blade. Was a durable as hell. I played university intramural league hockey and a lot of shinny at Saskatoon ODRs but every so often a good road hockey game in the apartment parking lot would also break out. Usually a couple flats of something cheap like Olympia beer sitting in the snowbank.