To Quote Wayne's World: Game On!
The hockey strike is over, my friends. While most of you will not care, I will care enough for the all of us. The players' association and owners finally reached an agreement (it only took them a little over 300 days...) and though no one (especially joe hockeyfan) is getting as good a deal out of it than if they had gotten this done, say last February (when they could have salvaged last season) at least there will be a 05-06 hockey season starting up on time this fall (wow, this sentence really enjoyed the parenthesis).
I'm stoked. I've really needed my fix. To the point I was TiVo-ing highlights/reliving the glory days of the Stars 99 championship season on Fox Sports Southwest. As fun as they were, the days of living in the past are ovah! Well, starting in October. I'm a try hard to get tickets to the season opener. I think it's important that they know they haven't lost all their fans through this ordeal (although I'm sure they haven't made any new ones from it). Plus did I mention I NEED MY FIX! Unfortunately, hockey is the fourth popular (of four) of the professional sports leagues in North America (apparently soccer doesn't even make the list). But what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in rabies. Er, that is to say, the fans are very rabid. Like U2 and Joss Whedon fans. Hey, wait a tic...I sense a pattern there. I think I have rabies!
But I digress...so in celebration of this day I give you a video of Marty Turco, goaltender for my Dallas Stars, which depicts what he did on his time off last year...mocap (motion capture for the uninitiated...like how they did Gollum in the LOTR movies) for an upcoming hockey video game. Depending on where you come from on the tech spectrum, or techtrum, this will be cool, silly, or a little of both. And therefore soooo fitting for me and my blog, don't you think?
Turco's Got Moves You Haven't Even Seen *
Did I just paraphrase a Julia Roberts movie??? Man, hockey can not come back soon enough!
* ok, so can't get a better link than this to work so click there and SCROOLLL waaayy down to the bottom for some reason and click the watch it now... it's hardly worth it now...i mean it's so aLLIesome! well maybe only if you like hockey AND videogames. hey, c'mon! it's hard to find a fitting geeky link sometimes so I force it, ok. i admit it! are you happy? ...i sorry baby...
I'm stoked. I've really needed my fix. To the point I was TiVo-ing highlights/reliving the glory days of the Stars 99 championship season on Fox Sports Southwest. As fun as they were, the days of living in the past are ovah! Well, starting in October. I'm a try hard to get tickets to the season opener. I think it's important that they know they haven't lost all their fans through this ordeal (although I'm sure they haven't made any new ones from it). Plus did I mention I NEED MY FIX! Unfortunately, hockey is the fourth popular (of four) of the professional sports leagues in North America (apparently soccer doesn't even make the list). But what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in rabies. Er, that is to say, the fans are very rabid. Like U2 and Joss Whedon fans. Hey, wait a tic...I sense a pattern there. I think I have rabies!
But I digress...so in celebration of this day I give you a video of Marty Turco, goaltender for my Dallas Stars, which depicts what he did on his time off last year...mocap (motion capture for the uninitiated...like how they did Gollum in the LOTR movies) for an upcoming hockey video game. Depending on where you come from on the tech spectrum, or techtrum, this will be cool, silly, or a little of both. And therefore soooo fitting for me and my blog, don't you think?
Turco's Got Moves You Haven't Even Seen *
Did I just paraphrase a Julia Roberts movie??? Man, hockey can not come back soon enough!
* ok, so can't get a better link than this to work so click there and SCROOLLL waaayy down to the bottom for some reason and click the watch it now... it's hardly worth it now...i mean it's so aLLIesome! well maybe only if you like hockey AND videogames. hey, c'mon! it's hard to find a fitting geeky link sometimes so I force it, ok. i admit it! are you happy? ...i sorry baby...
5 Comments:
At 4:18 PM, Anonymous said…
wow...ADD much?
At 4:47 PM, Anonymous said…
Need I mention that my state team is the AVALANCHE! So excited they're back! Yet, I feel they probably shot themselves in the foot by taking a 300 day negotiation break! I think many fans (at least in Colorado) have realized that college hockey is just as exciting (if not more) and WAY cheaper!
At 8:12 PM, Daryel said…
Cool clip. It does add much. I'm not a hockey fan, and I can see after a few specialty drinks how I could get into it. Same with NASCAR, but I respect the sport and its fans. What's funny is after watching the news, I wondered if Coy was going to write something about the negotiations being over.
At 9:00 PM, PostHaste said…
courtney: meant to but never made it out to a fort worth brahmas game last season (to get my forementioned fix). that's minor league. cheaper and more fighting. but also less finesse. and we stars fans know the avs very well. i predict some great games betwixt those two teams.
daryel: while i don't know if the clip "adds" much i do know that I "Attention Deficit Disorder" much on this post. i'm playing shad and explaining my random jokes. or maybe you got it and were just saying the clip adds much, i don't know...what i do know is your dang right I was gonna blog about the news. one thing though, NASCAR fans? Even I don't get them. But I do respect them cuz...have you seen em?
At 9:43 PM, Daryel said…
When I reread my previous comment, I realized that I said I respected NASCAR fans. Well...I meant to say I respected the hockey fans.
Don't get me wrong, NASCAR fans, well let's just say they're a different breed. Or they may be of all the same breed. The in-breed. HaHaHaHa.
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