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On 5/7/2020 at 4:56 PM, Taro T said:
Saw the title of the thread and actually addressed it in my 1st post in this thread.
Was merely adding info. Doubt all that many people realize that the Habs took a chance in the 6th of '83 hoping that someday the Soviets would let him out.
Not nearly as dumb as wasting a 1st on a Czechoslovakian in the 1st 2 years earlier.
WHAT - no love for Jiri Dudacek?
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2 hours ago, Taro T said:
You graduated college by 19? Impressive.
Should have read student, not grad.
It was a long time with much heartbreak, especially 72
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13 hours ago, Neo said:
Before there was Belicheck and his smug surliness, before there was Johnson and his outsized Texas celebrity, before there was Parcells and his condescending hubris, there was Shula. Arms folded across his chest, hands on his hips, he presided over teams that stood in our way. Often, the obstacle was their fifty being better than our fifty. Occasionally, the obstacle was their one being better than our one.
Don Shula went to Canton as Noll and Landry did, granite faced stoics. They walked the sidelines with little animation. Their faces live in my memory like Rushmore busts. There were no sneers or shouts. There were no thrown clipboards. There were only leaders of men.
I wonder, from time to time, how we would have known men of that era had there been 24/7/365 multi-media non-stop quotes, quips and film. There wasn’t. And so, I know them as quiet Field Marshalls, masters of the gladiators of my youth. They are who I believed they were, not who they revealed themselves to be. I was a boy. They are Titans.
The first Bills game I attended was against the fish in '69 at the Rockpile. I was 8 and the Bills won. Then they went "0 for the 70's" and I was a college grad before they beat the fish again
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It was a different era of junior hockey. Making the Jr. Canadiens was the most difficult cut those players survived in their careers!
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45 minutes ago, dudacek said:
He’s going to return this fall, spirited away by Don Luce and Alex Mogilny from seclusion in the Klondike where he pulled dog sleds loaded with the carcasses of Tim Murray’s blueline through the Chilkoot Pass, in temperatures colder than Gary Bettman’s heart.
He will be sporting a prospector’s beard thicker than the fog in the Aud in the spring of ‘75, carrying a wooden Victoriaville stick carved from an oak tree planted by Tim Horton and presented to him by Gilbert Perreault in a secret ceremony performed in a Japanese shrine owned by Taro Tsujimoto. He will be wearing the fedora Dodie gave Punch prior to that fateful first meeting with Seymour and Norty.
He will bear an uncanny resemblance to Kurt Russell in The Thing and we will call him YukonJesus.
Greatness will follow.
Great Natural/Sabres history lesson
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On 3/17/2020 at 5:56 PM, tom webster said:
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Stage One was a bar on Main near Transit.
i was at both concerts you mentioned at Clark Hall. Also, remember seeing Southside Johnny and the Asbury Park Jukes at Springfest on North campus in either 80 or 81.
Do I correctly recall that the first time I saw UB40 was on campus at UB around 78/79?
I’ll always consider Linda Ronstadt the greatest female vocalist.
i’ve had a crush on her for about 45 years now
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3 hours ago, tom webster said:
No,
Stage One was a bar on Main near Transit.
i was at both concerts you mentioned at Clark Hall. Also, remember seeing Southside Johnny and the Asbury Park Jukes at Springfest on North campus in either 80 or 81.
Do I correctly recall that the first time I saw UB40 was on campus at UB around 78/79?
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15 hours ago, tom webster said:
Yeah, went to school with ole Harv. Can’t tell people that much anymore.
Better story about Stage One, I ran in their one night to grab some Mighty’s and about 50 people were in their listening to some new band doing maybe their tenth Anerican show. I think their lead singer went by Sting......
I was one of those 50 or so. Spring 1979, a couple months before HS graduation.
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13 hours ago, Tondas said:
It was only last year that I learned that the Harvey in Harvey and Corky Productions was Weinstein. As a proud UB alumni, it pissed me off.
Same here. I had no idea that I had met "the Harvey Weinstein" until it came out that he got his start as 1/2 of "Harvey & Corky Productions"
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On 3/14/2020 at 4:51 PM, tom webster said:
How is Paul Rodgers or Roy Orbison not mentioned.
Truth is, if he wanted to, Prince could have been the best on all instruments.
But, since I decided to post, I will modify the question with those I’ve seen.
Justin Hayward
Eric Clapton
Joe Strummer
Billy Sheehan
Carl Palmer
Producer Todd Rundgren
Love the Billy Sheehan vote!
Takes me back to the days of hanging out at Stage One before Harvey was infamous
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6 hours ago, gilbert11 said:
You probably are too young to remember Gil Perrault. He scored goals like that frequently. Many times he started behind his own net and weaved through the whole opposing team. Guy LaFleur was similar.
I think it was Larry Carriere that said something like - get the puck in your own end, take it behind the net, wait for Bert to circle back, pick it up, skate through both teams and score. Easiest plus 1 possible"
I remember LaFleur flying down the wing and getting a pass, not waeving through both teams with the puck, but he was a Hab and it was a long time ago!
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I was a freshman at UR at a concert on campus. Can't recall how, but learned the score at the end of the second period during an intermission. Went to the student center where both tv's were tuned to the Olympics. Typical Olympic broadcast even then - switching to several events, but once Mark Johnson tied it the last 10 minutes were shown live.
A special feeling that can't really be duplicated because the "cold war" and changes in Olympic eligibility. They'd never play the tournament in a 7500 seat arena today
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Bernie Parent is the sole reason the Sabres didn't win in '75
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Get 3 out of 4 points before the break and we'll all fee good
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Apparently last night's loss was the death knell for their now former staff
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For my sanity, I hope I can ignore this game
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13 hours ago, Radar said:
Oh Holy Night, Silent Night,Drummer Boy pretty much in that order.
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Anyone else remember the gray seats? Used to have a blue and a gray section, all became blue
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5 hours ago, tom webster said:
The Who definitely ranked up there.
The Braves-Celtics playoff game that Darell Garettson(six) ruined for me. Not ashamed to admit that I cried on the way down.
The Aud Club.
Sabres-Flyers in 75 maybe, six guys thrown out 23 seconds in. Doug Favel throwing his stick from bench as Luce broke in on empty net.
Oh, and getting robbed when I was 12 by six kids during golden gloves boxing. One was very nice and yelled at his friend for making me spill my pop while he fished through my pockets looking for more money.
Braves games - Tops tickets in the oranges
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Favorite Aud memories include Little 3 doubleheaders - didn't realize how special it was to see Calvin Murphy and Bob Lanier play in the first college basketball games I attended;
The Who on Dec. 4, 1979;
Sabres good memories include Schoeny's 3 fights and beating the Bruins; "Thank you Sabres" as the Habs eliminated us; 12-6 over the Russians
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6 hours ago, Tondas said:
I've got an answer
I'm going to fly away
What have I got to lose?
Will you come see me Thursdays and Saturdays?
What have you got to lose?CSN 1969
Brilliant - many verses describe the state of being a Sabres fan since 1970!
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Memphis Tiger season ticket holder. Tiger basketball is very important
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48 minutes ago, phil_soisson said:
Milt Ellis, Norm Wullen, and Tenor Joe Byron,...it doesn't get any better!
Slightly better because the Earl of Bud was there!
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50 years ago today: The best hockey photo ever?
in The Aud Club
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Another for consideration