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Old 04-16-2012, 11:18 AM   #3181
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Bro your team is a bunch of pussies. Flopping and crying all over the ice, it's pitiful. I understand you are a fan and you're going to stick by them no matter what, but if I were you I'd just shut up here...you're way overmatched and have nothing to back up the crap coming out of your mouth (or keyboard). Your QB is a rapist, Sid the Kid is a crybaby with a glass jaw, the Pirates suck and your college basketball team couldn't even make the NIT this year. Time to start thinking about tennis lessons.
Our QB was an accused, never convicted rapist that has won 2 Superbowls. Mike Vick's good though, he can win and he actually never spent time in jail and was never convicted of fighting innocent animals. The Pirates suck but I am not a baseball fan, I think it's boring. I also do not like Pitt.

Crosby doesn't whine another misconception, he asks for calls just like anyone else. Go re-watch 24/7 and maybe that will show you. You'd also kill to have him on your team.
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  • Old 04-16-2012, 11:21 AM   #3182
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    Flyers have class? Since when? The hair pulling was way over reacted he tried getting him to turn around since Hartnell is a pussy and wouldn't face Adams in fear of getting his ass whopped and grabbed his hair. Pulling someone's hair isn't too comparable to someone biting someone else (Hartnell bit Letang's finger a year or 2 ago). The series still has atleast one game left, don't get too high on the horse....remember what you guys did to Boston.
    Mateo2k said it well. Also, Schenn would of destroyed Miss Crosby, but didn't because he doesn't want to hospitalize the guy. That was a classy move. Hartnell had Adams in a headlock after drifting to the boards from mass accelerative of two big guys in hockey skates on ice. Simmonds is going to wipe the ice with Neal on Wednesday. And if not Neal, Simmonds is gonna wipe the ice with someone. Now as far as the bolded is concerned. The Flyers are going to sweep the Penguins...get your brooms out Flyers fans. The Flyers out-score the Penguins overwhelmingly when they play each other.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:22 AM   #3183
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    Actually I wouldnt kill to have Crosby on my team, he's a shitty captain with unbelievable talent but we still have a top 3 offensive team in the league so we dont need him. Plus he wouldnt last a month in Philly's media market.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:29 AM   #3184
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    Mateo2k said it well. Also, Schenn would of destroyed Miss Crosby, but didn't because he doesn't want to hospitalize the guy. That was a classy move. Hartnell had Adams in a headlock after drifting to the boards from mass accelerative of two big guys in hockey skates on ice. Simmonds is going to wipe the ice with Neal on Wednesday. And if not Neal, Simmonds is gonna wipe the ice with someone. Now as far as the bolded is concerned. The Flyers are going to sweep the Penguins...get your brooms out Flyers fans. The Flyers out-score the Penguins overwhelmingly when they play each other.
    Like he wiped the ice with Engelland? If the Flyers sweep, good for them it will be fun to watch them lose later anyway like 2010. Alot of shit talk from a team that hasn't won anything since 1975....
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:32 AM   #3185
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:33 AM   #3186
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    Like he wiped the ice with Engelland? If the Flyers sweep, good for them it will be fun to watch them lose later anyway like 2010. Alot of shit talk from a team that hasn't won anything since 1975....
    HAHA. I always love the "X team hasn't won since 1975!" stuff. Because clearly, this is has been the same exact team for 40 years.

    Boston won last year, and they're the exact same team right? So, clearly they'll win again this year.

    Silly argument for people who can't defend the actions of their own team members.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:33 AM   #3187
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    Giving some love to the bruins here, let's start putting pucks in the net...
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:35 AM   #3188
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    Giving some love to the bruins here, let's start putting pucks in the net...
    or be like the sharks and put them in your own net
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:36 AM   #3189
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    Giving some love to the bruins here, let's start putting pucks in the net...
    Can't get 'em past Holtby. That guy's been a beast so far.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:45 AM   #3190
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    HAHA. I always love the "X team hasn't won since 1975!" stuff. Because clearly, this is has been the same exact team for 40 years.

    Boston won last year, and they're the exact same team right? So, clearly they'll win again this year.

    Silly argument for people who can't defend the actions of their own team members.
    I'm actually pretty sure the Stanley Cup is awarded to an organization not individual team members. Which would mean the Philadelphia Flyers haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1975.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:47 AM   #3191
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    Can't get 'em past Holtby. That guy's been a beast so far.
    No kidding. Should be a tight series me thinks.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 11:57 AM   #3192
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    What's the name of the keyboardist that collaborated on 2-3 album tracks? And who's the guy that is rumored to be touring with DMB again?
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    HAHA. I always love the "X team hasn't won since 1975!" stuff. Because clearly, this is has been the same exact team for 40 years.

    Boston won last year, and they're the exact same team right? So, clearly they'll win again this year.

    Silly argument for people who can't defend the actions of their own team members.
    to win a championship, you need a solid organization, not winning since 1975 or whatever says a lot about a front office and ownership.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:02 PM   #3194
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    What's the name of the keyboardist that collaborated on 2-3 album tracks? And who's the guy that is rumored to be touring with DMB again?
    I'm sorry, this is the NHL Playoffs Thread...please find another thread to talk about the album in.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:03 PM   #3195
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    What's the name of the keyboardist that collaborated on 2-3 album tracks? And who's the guy that is rumored to be touring with DMB again?
    http://antsmarching.org/news/2012/03...-least-1-guest
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:09 PM   #3196
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    to win a championship, you need a solid organization, not winning since 1975 or whatever says a lot about a front office and ownership.
    That's a stupid argument. There are plenty of great organizations that have not gotten over the hump. The Flyers are consistently in contention year in and year out. They rarely have that down of a year. The Eagles have never won the Superbowl and they are regarded as one of the top organizations in the NFL.
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    I'm sorry, this is the NHL Playoffs Thread...please find another thread to talk about the album in.
    What album? The whole DMB releasing a new album has become such a joke. No news, nothing at all to get excited about. Just week after week with nothing but radio silence.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:12 PM   #3198
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    hockey ey? must have taken a wrong turn into the Canada thread
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:26 PM   #3200
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    That's a stupid argument. There are plenty of great organizations that have not gotten over the hump. The Flyers are consistently in contention year in and year out. They rarely have that down of a year. The Eagles have never won the Superbowl and they are regarded as one of the top organizations in the NFL.
    wow, shocker, you're from philly, and saying how great two philly organizations are...
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:26 PM   #3201
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    hahaha yesss!
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    So I just called the Warehouse asking when the annual packages will be sent out (they are waiting for the CDs then mailing out soon) and i asked if she knew anything about davematthewsband.com crashing last thusrday. She said it was a test page for an upcoming change with the site. I asked if she knew what the change would be and told me she wasn't at liberty to say. So i think the announcement is coming sooner than later. I don't think that test page was up for any old reason. My guess is we will get the announcement before April is over. Just thought I would post this instead of hockey news. No offense. I like hockey too.
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:32 PM   #3203
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    Go Rangers.... DMB Rocks... I like movies.... I enjoy pizza.... Really lost in this thread and where it may or may not be going, so there I think I covered the possible grounds for this....
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:33 PM   #3204
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    So I just called the Warehouse asking when the annual packages will be sent out (they are waiting for the CDs then mailing out soon) and i asked if she knew anything about davematthewsband.com crashing last thusrday. She said it was a test page for an upcoming change with the site. I asked if she knew what the change would be and told me she wasn't at liberty to say. So i think the announcement is coming sooner than later. I don't think that test page was up for any old reason. My guess is we will get the announcement before April is over. Just thought I would post this instead of hockey news. No offense. I like hockey too.
    Appreciate it! Finally someone with some sense... shouldn't hockey be discussed in the threads that is meant for sports?
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    Old 04-16-2012, 12:37 PM   #3205
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    Isn't nDMBc really useless now since we have this thread?
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    The SEC is the best and all other college football conferences might as well move down to division two.
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    Actually, on two occassions Crosby asked Schenn and Giroux if they wanted to go clearly...Schenn wouldn't, Giroux looked afraid and Crosby forced him to. Neal wasn't fighting for anyone and Neal didn't step in for anyone, Simmonds went up to Neal after he threw a few cheap shots. I'm just helping you get facts straight.
    Nah man, crosby's the one that wouldn't take his glove off to fight, he just kept his mouth moving like a cock-sucker. Go back and watch the game, he clearly pulls Hartnell over to the boards by his hair, and then has another douche come over and rescue him from the real fight. Go home to shitsburg.
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    75 viewing. No news. > . <
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    Hot damn, I never miss an excuse to talk about Ken Patera!

    This former Olympic weightlifter and American powerlifter sure has an incredible life story! He competed at Brigham Young University and won several medals at the Pan American Games (including gold, way to go Ken!), and finished second in the 1971 World Weightlifting Championships. He was the first American to clean and jerk 500(503˝) lbs (227 kg), which he accomplished at the 1972 Senior Nationals in Detroit. He is also the only American to clean and press 500 lb (230 kg), and was arguably the last American to excel at weightlifting on an international level. He was a serious competitor to the Soviet legend Vasily Alexeev at the 1972 Summer Olympics, but he failed to total and was not among the medal recipients. After the press (a lift in which Patera was disproportionately talented) was eliminated from competition, Patera retired from weightlifting.[3] He also competed in the Shot Put, finishing 6th in the 1968 Olympic Trials.[4]

    Patera's career best lifts were all achieved in a meet in San Francisco on July 23, 1972 and should in no way be confused with items on the menu at a gay bar:

    Snatch - 387.5 lb (175.8 kg)
    Clean and press - 505.5 lb (229.3 kg)
    Clean and jerk - 505.5 lb (229.3 kg)

    When measured for the 1972 Olympics, he weighed 340 lb (150 kg) at a height of 6 ft 1.75 in (1.8733 m) (Wilhelm, 1994). Patera also competed in the first World's Strongest Man contest in 1977, finishing third behind Bruce Wilhelm and Bob Young. Patera also performed feats of strength during his wrestling career. On an episode of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, in 1978, Patera and Tony Atlas performed various feats of strength, including driving nails through boards, blowing up a hot water bottle until it popped, bending spikes wrapped in a towel and bending bars over their necks.[5]
    [edit] Professional wrestling career

    Patera became a "strongman" in professional wrestling in 1973, following his weightlifting career. After a stint in the AWA, his first major feud was in the Mid-Atlantic territory against then-United States Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine, with Patera as the babyface.

    The Patera-Valentine house show runs were set up by a TV angle in which Valentine would draw a name out of a fishbowl every week, and the next week wrestle the man whose name he drew. For the first few weeks, Valentine drew the names of one jobber after another, all the time voicing his opposition to wrestling Patera. Finally, Valentine drew a name - and it was Patera's. Patera then appeared on screen and revealed that he had replaced every slip of paper with one that said "Ken Patera".

    The next week, the two men met in a 10-minute time limit match on TV, with Patera putting Valentine under with a headlock/chinlock when the bell rang to signify the time limit had expired. Officially, the match ended in a draw, but with Patera on the verge of defeating Valentine (who had been portrayed as nearly unbeatable) on television. The two were matched in a series of house show main events, with Valentine always coming out on top and retaining the U.S. championship.

    He wrestled mainly as a heel for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and American Wrestling Association (AWA) during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976, he challenged Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship. This was a huge draw around the northeastern part of the United States and at Madison Square Garden, and was one of Sammartino's last great challengers before losing the title to Superstar Billy Graham, which ended his second, shorter WWF title reign. When Bob Backlund later won the title, Patera also unsuccessfully challenged him.

    At the height of his career, in 1980, he simultaneously held the WWF's Intercontinental Championship, and the NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship, two very prestigious titles of that era. He was one of the most hated heels in wrestling (winning Pro Wrestling Illustrated's "Most Hated Wrestler" award in 1977), and often used his Swinging Full Nelson to "injure" babyface opponents during matches (most notably Billy White Wolf in August 1977).[6]

    Patera returned to the Mid-Atlantic territory as a heel, defeating area legend Chief Wahoo McDaniel for the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship in April 1978. Patera would hold that title, off and on, for over a year, losing it to, and regaining it from Tony Atlas. Patera then lost the title to fellow AWA alumni Jim Brunzell, in Richmond, Virginia.

    Patera was an integral part of The Heenan Family in the AWA (1982–1983), and later in the WWF (1984–1985). While in the AWA, he feuded with Hulk Hogan, Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell. During Heenan's absence in 1983, caused by a back injury, Patera joined forces with manager Sheik Adnan El-Kaissie and formed a tag team with Jerry Blackwell known as The Sheiks; both men wore Arabian-style garments and feuded with the High Flyers (Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell) over the AWA World Tag Team Championship, winning the belts in June 1983. Patera and Blackwell later lost the titles to Baron Von Raschke and The Crusher. In the WWF, Patera resumed his feud with Hogan, and also assisted Big John Studd in his feud with André the Giant, most notably helping Studd cut Andre's hair after both had attacked him.

    On April 6, 1984, Patera and fellow AWA heel Masa Saito were denied service after hours at a McDonald's restaurant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, prompting an angry Patera to throw a rock through a window of the building (Patera claims that a former employee threw the rock but he received the blame). He and Saito assaulted the policemen sent to arrest them later at a hotel. Sixteen months later, at which point Patera was in the WWF, he was sentenced to two years in prison.[1][7]

    The WWF brought Patera back to the company in the spring of 1987, airing vignettes on WWF TV and releasing a Coliseum Video cassette entitled "The Ken Patera Story", which chronicled his career and his return. He was in top physical condition at this point, and his appearance had changed, as he wore natural brown hair, rather than his previous bleached blond look. On the "Right After Wrestling" program on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 98, Patera told hosts Arda Ocal and Jimmy Korderas that his natural hair color was blonde and he had decided to wrestle in his natural hair color later in his career.[8] To ensure he would be accepted as a babyface, he claimed that former manager Bobby Heenan had abandoned him and "sold him down the river" while he was in prison. Patera and Heenan held a debate to air their differences, which naturally turned into a physical confrontation between the two that culminated in Patera swinging Heenan with a belt around his neck, causing Heenan to appear on television with a neck brace for months. Patera then began feuding with the Heenan Family (at the time composed of Paul Orndorff, Harley Race, King Kong Bundy and Hercules). In his first match back at Madison Square Garden, the final match of the night, he defeated The Honky Tonk Man via submission with a bearhug, to a huge ovation. Some wrestling publications speculated that Patera would reunite with Heenan to face Hulk Hogan in the main event of WrestleMania IV. But his push was short-lived. Shortly after his return, Patera ruptured the biceps tendon in his right arm, which led him to miss some time and re-emerge afterward with a stiff and bulky full-length brace for protection. Within six months, Patera was being defeated by newer, younger talent and found himself floundering in a mid-card tag team with fellow Oregonian Billy Jack Haynes. In his final televised WWF matches in late 1988 (losses to Bad News Brown and "Outlaw" Ron Bass), commentators Gorilla Monsoon and Lord Alfred Hayes remarked on-air that Patera's skills were in decline and that he should consider retirement.

    Patera returned to the AWA in early 1989 and unsuccessfully challenged the new AWA world champion Larry Zbyszko for the title. He then teamed with Brad Rheingans as "The Olympians." The team defeated Badd Company for the AWA World Tag Team Championship shortly thereafter, but their reign was brief. Fellow weightlifter-turned-wrestler Wayne Bloom challenged Patera to a "car-lifting challenge" in order to get a title shot for him and his partner, Mike Enos. When it was Patera's turn to lift, Enos and manager Johnny Valiant attacked and (kayfabe) injured Patera and Rheingans. This led to the AWA stripping Patera and Rheingans of the title. Rheingans left wrestling for several months in order to have a legitimate and unrelated knee operation. Patera continued to feud with Bloom and Enos until he left the AWA. Upon his return to the AWA in early 1990, Rheingans resumed the feud until the AWA's demise.

    Patera went on to wrestle for Herb Abrams' UWF, as well as PWA and on independent cards primarily in the Minnesota area well into the 1990s, sometimes even promoting his own events.
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