Re: Vancouver's Hockey "Media" (or "Idiots" as Torts calls them)

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Cornuck wrote:
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I was just a kid and my dad was a season ticket holder, he took me half the games.
I'm going to assume that was at Empire Stadium... or are you twinistioning to a younger persona? ;)
It all depends on how one defines "kid". :D

Yes I watched many games at Empire when I was knee-high to a grasshopper.

But I'm referring to BC Place right now.

How's the weather down your way Corn? :look:
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Strangelove wrote:
Cornuck wrote:
Strangelove wrote:
I was just a kid and my dad was a season ticket holder, he took me half the games.
I'm going to assume that was at Empire Stadium... or are you twinistioning to a younger persona? ;)
It all depends on how one defines "kid". :D

Yes I watched many games at Empire when I was knee-high to a grasshopper.

But I'm referring to BC Place right now.

How's the weather down your way Corn? :look:
I went to more games at Empire Stadium, first as a kid, then as a drunken lout. ;)

As for the weather - 82 and sunny right now (only 2 hailstorms last week).
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Cornuck wrote: I went to more games at Empire Stadium, first as a kid, then as a drunken lout. ;)
Yup ole Empire was famous for drunken louts! :lol:

"Welcome to East Van, prepare to die".

Maybe the crackdown on dat dere when they moved to BC Place is what killed attendance.
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Strangelove wrote:
Cornuck wrote: I went to more games at Empire Stadium, first as a kid, then as a drunken lout. ;)
Yup ole Empire was famous for drunken louts! :lol:

"Welcome to East Van, prepare to die".

Maybe the crackdown on dat dere when they moved to BC Place is what killed attendance.
not to mention the 2 beer limit... ;)

Ahh, those were the days.... start the morning downtown, pregame at the Admiral, then onto Empire Stadium- then back downtown - then a shitty bus ride back to Surrey. :D
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Cornuck wrote:
Strangelove wrote:
Cornuck wrote: I went to more games at Empire Stadium, first as a kid, then as a drunken lout. ;)
Yup ole Empire was famous for drunken louts! :lol:

"Welcome to East Van, prepare to die".

Maybe the crackdown on dat dere when they moved to BC Place is what killed attendance.
not to mention the 2 beer limit... ;)

Ahh, those were the days.... start the morning downtown, pregame at the Admiral, then onto Empire Stadium- then back downtown - then a shitty bus ride back to Surrey. :D
I'm sure we must have crossed paths back in the day.

My dad used to smuggle a mickey into every game.

He refused to let me have any of course... until I was 13. :D

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I was kicked out of The Penthouse once.

Who gets kicked out of the Penthouse?

I just don't think there is enough sports for 24/7 radio or 4-5 channels of TV.
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Strangelove wrote:
Cornuck wrote: I went to more games at Empire Stadium, first as a kid, then as a drunken lout. ;)
Yup ole Empire was famous for drunken louts! :lol:

"Welcome to East Van, prepare to die".

Maybe the crackdown on dat dere when they moved to BC Place is what killed attendance.
Doc the Hastings Park Flavour strangely enough back in the day served as a Nuclear deterrent for most of the peeps... People tended to mind their P's & Qs for if they didn't their were consequences to their actions... Given that your sports flavour essentially came out of that community Canucks Horse Racing Lions... Lions Games at Empire were more involved more fun an edge that teetered on danger at Lions games at The BC Place became more sterile
more corporate they lost their edge...

Sidenote seen more things I shouldn't of seen from the age of 10 to 17 at Playland that included fights and sex acts than anyone that age should've...
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olpaddy wrote:Sidenote seen more things I shouldn't of seen from the age of 10 to 17 at Playland that included fights and sex acts than anyone that age should've...
Do you and the Dude have the same therapist? :D
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Ever since Landy, people were looking over their shoulders at Empire.
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.

I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
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olpaddy wrote:
Strangelove wrote:
Cornuck wrote: I went to more games at Empire Stadium, first as a kid, then as a drunken lout. ;)
Yup ole Empire was famous for drunken louts! :lol:

"Welcome to East Van, prepare to die".

Maybe the crackdown on dat dere when they moved to BC Place is what killed attendance.
Doc the Hastings Park Flavour strangely enough back in the day served as a Nuclear deterrent for most of the peeps... People tended to mind their P's & Qs for if they didn't their were consequences to their actions... Given that your sports flavour essentially came out of that community Canucks Horse Racing Lions... Lions Games at Empire were more involved more fun an edge that teetered on danger at Lions games at The BC Place became more sterile
more corporate they lost their edge...
That makes a lot of sense actually Paddy.
olpaddy wrote: Sidenote seen more things I shouldn't of seen from the age of 10 to 17 at Playland that included fights and sex acts than anyone that age should've...
My apologies. :wink:
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Topper wrote:Ever since Landy, people were looking over their shoulders at Empire.
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Topper wrote:Ever since Landy, people were looking over their shoulders at Empire.
:lol:
Whatever happened to that old bronze statue anyway? Is that downtown or around the same area?
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August, 1964; I was 6 and getting ready for my first year in hockey.
Was listening to all the chaos on the old radio when the Beatles were at Empire. It was insane.
Sounded scary to a kid. People getting trampled, you could here all the screaming, Red Robinson trying to talk over it all.
Wonder what HW was doing at the time. ;)
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micky107 wrote:August, 1964; I was 6 and getting ready for my first year in hockey.
Was listening to all the chaos on the old radio when the Beatles were at Empire. It was insane.
Sounded scary to a kid. People getting trampled, you could here all the screaming, Red Robinson trying to talk over it all.
Wonder what HW was doing at the time. ;)
Probably doing what all 16 year old catholic girls did in the hay stacks during those hot August nights!
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Hockey Widow wrote:
micky107 wrote:August, 1964; I was 6 and getting ready for my first year in hockey.
Was listening to all the chaos on the old radio when the Beatles were at Empire. It was insane.
Sounded scary to a kid. People getting trampled, you could here all the screaming, Red Robinson trying to talk over it all.
Wonder what HW was doing at the time. ;)
Probably doing what all 16 year old catholic girls did in the hay stacks during those hot August nights!
It must have been hell living life when everything was black and white...
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