The hardcore fan has to express his devotion to his team somehow. A man cave is one way of going about that in the extreme. But lord, these guys must hurt bad when their team loses. And hysterically rejoice when they win!
This one almost looks like a bar.
This guy is more into the beer than the team.
But the best one is in good old Winnipeg. A Winnipeg Jets man cave!
Another classic hit where the 6’5″ 260 pound Buff sent an Edmonton Oiler into sandman land.
Number 42 Nathan Gerbe, 5’4″. Winnipeg Jet, Blake Wheeler 6’5″.
Some guys just go a bit too far.
Winnipeg Jets White-Out!
Jets Stadium game in Winnipeg.
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What will Luke Bryan be wearing when he starts singing the U.S. national anthem? (Bovada)
How many times will Trump be said on TV during broadcast?
Will “Houston, we have a problem” be said on TV during live broadcast? (Bovada)
What color will Lady Gaga’s hair be when she comes on stage for the halftime show? (Bovada)
Which song will Lady Gaga play first during the halftime show? (Bovada)
Will either team make a field goal in the first quarter? (Westgate)
Will either team score three straight times? (Westgate)
Will the opening kickoff result in a touchback? (Bovada)
Will there be a penalty for excessive celebration? (Bovada)
Bill Belichick’s hoodie color
Victory Gatorade colour
For all you betters out there, don’t get carried away, we know how a betting addiction can take off:
Swine across China are jumping or being shoved off platforms and splashing into pools and ponds, where they bob around before paddling to shore.
Images on the Internet and reports in newspapers suggest that creating a leaping, amphibious pig is another realm where China, which raises more than half the world’s pigs, can claim global pre-eminence. Online photos show piglets prodded to dive off a bridge into a lake. Others show a spotted-pig triathlon of diving, swimming and hurdling.
Aquatic swine are not exclusive to China. Australia has a family with diving pigs, and in the Bahamas you can frolic in the surf with them. But China’s rural entrepreneurs have turned the pursuit into a tourist draw and a selling point for pork. Proponents say that diving pigs are healthier, leaner and tastier.
“We wanted to make the pigs grow healthier, because usually they’re too lazy,” said Zou Wei, a manager in the planning department of Tuhe Black Pork, a company in Shandong Province that puts some of its hogs through a routine of diving and swimming. “To start with, the pigs don’t like it, but you force one onto the diving platform and it slides down, the others see that and follow.”
The Piggy Kingdom Family Amusement Park in Zhejiang Province has taken the amusement factor to new heights. Pictures and video from the park show pigs being heaved off a platform and thrashing in the air until smacking into water 39 feet below. That’s about six feet more than the tallest Olympic diving platform.
“The Piggy Amusement Park is a bit smelly,” one visitor said, according to a report on the local government’s website. “But the piglets were cute diving into the water and the kids loved it.”
This dark-haired porker has the technique down pat.
Judges give this red-haired piglet tens all-around!
As with human athletes, it’s a matter of mind-set, said Yang Shiliu, a former researcher in the Hunan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Institute, who is considered one of the foremost experts on pig diving.
“The occasional divers will be hesitant,” Mr. Yang said in a telephone interview from Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province in southern China. “Once they’re used to it, they don’t mind.”
Besides, he said, pigs are more adept at swimming than other athletic activities. The Salon pig-breeding company in Hunan considered making pigs jog for exercise, he said, but found that their trotters were too dainty for their bulky bodies. Moreover, he said, “aquatic exercise is a bit more intense.”
Some people have been appalled by the spectacle of pigs being pushed into ponds. “Making pigs dive into water is abusing them,” one person said. “Our citizens have no heart.”
Animal rights advocates, however, have been restrained in their criticism. Jeff Zhou, a China representative for Compassion in World Farming, which campaigns against animal abuse, said pigs in China’s factory farms suffer worse fates than diving, including castration without anesthesia and immobilization in sow stalls and farrowing crates.
But platform diving was not necessarily a pig’s idea of fun, he added.
“It can bring a certain kind of stress to them at the very beginning,” he said. He said farmers should base exercise regimes “on the needs of animals, not the amusement of humans.”
Pig-diving proponents insist that they are doing both.
I checked out the skating trail today as the weather was very agreeable. Warmer temps allowed a skate without having to wear astronaut-like clothing. The trail is well groomed and the ice was smooth as glass. For a Tuesday afternoon there was a surprisingly large turnout.
The trail isn’t as long as past years. But it does cover areas of the two rivers, Red and Assiniboine. It has been a few years since the Assiniboine River segment has been open, strong currents and mild weather the cause. There is also a couple hockey rinks right at the Forks harbor.
Different perspectives of the city from the rivers.
Blue shows current skate trail.
Get to see graffiti otherwise hidden from the public.
Some people just can’t read.
Howard William Meeker, C.M. (born November 4, 1923) is a former right winger in the National Hockey League, youth coach and educator in ice hockey and television sports announcer as well as a former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born in Kitchener, Ontario. Meeker is the last surviving member of the Maple Leafs 1947 Stanley Cup team and the inaugural NHL All-Star Game.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Meeker became known to a new generation of hockey fans as the squeaky-voiced analyst on Hockey Night in Canada. He began analyzing plays in greater depth than previous colour commentators, using the telestrator to demonstrate his points. He also worked on Vancouver Canucks telecasts on BCTV. When TSN gained NHL cable rights in 1987, Meeker joined their broadcast team, where he stayed until retiring in 1998. Meeker popularized the phrase, “Keep your stick on the ice”, made during his educational segments on Hockey Night in Canada.
Meeker spent two years as a Progressive Conservative MP while playing for the Leafs. In June 1951, Meeker won the federal by-election in the Ontario riding of Waterloo South. He did not seek re-election in the 1953 election.That’s different, having your first line NHL center-man being a member of parliament. Where did he find the time?
This photo is from 7 years ago. Howie at the time was a sprite 88 years old.
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