Post #121,526
10/16/03 7:17:07 PM
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What's this BS with the unis? Dark at home? Huh???
-drl
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Post #121,555
10/16/03 9:07:06 PM
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Just to be a pain in the ass methinks
No, actually it's so the home team can wear their third jersey, thus spurring more jersey sales and so that the visiting team only needs to bring one jersey with them. It's going to take a bit of time to get used to.
lister
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Post #121,556
10/16/03 9:12:51 PM
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Sports is like Chopin
If you ruin the continuity, you ruin the music.
Hockey teams have been wearing home white since the Ice Age. To change it for whatever reason is just pointless and destructive of tradition.
Who MAKES these idiotic decisions?
-drl
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Post #121,560
10/16/03 10:05:37 PM
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Re: Sports is like Chopin
Bettman and the owners made the decision.
Actually while it has been home white, visitor darks for quite a while, it was apparently the reverse like now at the start for a long time until the switch to home whites. Don't know the reason for the switch.
CFL teams up here have darks for home games and I've never gotten used to it. I doubt I'll do the same for quite some time with hockey. Hard to shake something you've been used to all your life... :-)
lister
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Post #121,562
10/16/03 10:11:35 PM
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Hmm, musta changed in the 50s
If you image-google "Rocket Richard" he's mostly in red. If you image-google "Bernie Geoffrion" he's about half red and half white :)
My sort of bad. My film vault from the 50s is sketchy :)
-drl
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Post #121,565
10/16/03 10:15:43 PM
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nope - search sez 70-71 season
(..trying to imagine Bobby Orr's flying goal..guess he was in black..memory's fading, fading, fading..I was put into existence in 1959 and I'd like to sing you a song..Daisy, Daisy..)
-drl
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Post #121,579
10/16/03 11:35:14 PM
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As I said...
...been home whites my whole life. :-)
Wish I could have seen the magic of Bobby Orr but at least I was around for Gretzky and Lemieux, not to mention the high flying Oiler days.
lister
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Post #121,581
10/16/03 11:52:44 PM
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I missed almost all of Gretzky
When the Flames departed Atlanta in 1980, hockey coverage dropped to trace levels.
Then I moved to Denver in 1989, where there was little interest in NHL hockey (but a thriving fan base for the DU Pioneers) - and games on cable or network were rare.
So, from 1980 to 1996, I was essentially hockeyless, missing the entire Gretzky era :(
In the early 70s, NBC had a regular Saturday afternoon game, and that's where I got my first taste of hockey - so I do actually remember Bobby Orr playing. When we got the Flames in 1972, I was already a fan.
-drl
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Post #121,584
10/17/03 12:24:00 AM
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Re: As I said...
Wish I could have seen the magic of Bobby Orr but at least I was around for Gretzky and Lemieux, not to mention the high flying Oiler days. I followed Lemieux from about 1988 onward, and I thought he was just awesome. I followed him through all his comebacks, injuries, and retirement, and back to the team again as owner and then player, and I have 2 completely full 3 inch 3-ring notebooks on him. I wasn't big on Gretzky, don't know why, but I wasn't. And I still believe that had Mario kept playing all this time and at healthy strength, he would have beaten all of Wayne's records. :) Nightowl >8# "I learned to be the door, instead of the mat!" "illegitimi nil carborundum"
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