Never heard this Lindros story.

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Agree. And I wouldn't hold a 19 year old kid responsible for every poor comment or stupid act he did or didn't do in a fit of anger. Plus, this story our after decades have gone by is a bit of a stretch. I can't even remember what I was mad about last week. But, I know I was right!

God bless always being right.

 

[slapshot]

I believe the missus would disagree with that last sentence

LOL. Women everywhere are thanking God they're not married to me. If I was I'd probably be the "late" slapshot.

 

[slapshot]

God bless always being right.

A heavy burden to bear eh BBB?

 

[Phantomphan]

You think he's changed

He's grown up a lot since this story. I've heard him on the radio a few times and he comes across as a decent guy now. I doubt there are many of us who could say they never did stupid things as a teenager, so why should we be surprised when athletes do?

 

[elocomotive]

He's grown up a lot since this story. I've heard him on the radio a few times and he comes across as a decent guy now. I doubt there are many of us who could say they never did stupid things as a teenager, so why should we be surprised when athletes do?

Homer!


No, that's true and a good point. The only problem is this wasn't the only time he was a jerk over the next decade after that.

 

[Phantomphan]

Homer!


No, that's true and a good point. The only problem is this wasn't the only time he was a jerk over the next decade after that.

D'oh!

Lindros was definitely a jerk (as were his parents I believe) for quite a few years. But I never pay attention to off-ice stuff - who really cares about that (except in some obvious extreme cases) so all I saw was that he played well for the most part and helped the Flyers get to the Cup finals. Would have been nice if they had won, but I think Paul Stewart was the ref in that series so............

 

[redseat]

What an asshole! Who gives a rats arse who the posters came from! They were for charity, you know the people who support you! What a dick!

 

[forty_three]

Homer!


No, that's true and a good point. The only problem is this wasn't the only time he was a jerk over the next decade after that.

I read his book, and I thought he came across as pretty decent. Yes, I know he had a writer to help, but still. Since he stood his ground (right or wrong) he faced a lot of shit. And being an arrogant guy, he could have gotten in a lot worse trouble.

One story he told was some team he was playing in Bantam or Junior (don't remember which) and the team had someone else who wore #88. And the in rink PA guy kept saying "Goal by *OUR* #88, so-and-so", etc. All game long, "*OUR #88" "OUR #88". And their #88 was chirping the whole game. So he got annoyed by it and laid out their #88. As the kid laid on the ice, he made a "gunslinger" gesture and blew on his glove and acted like he put it in a holster. The next day, the story in the paper was about the "Vicious and unprovoked attack" on their #88, how Lindros was a showboat and it suggested that Eric was just jealous that the other #88 was just as good.

If it was me, not only would I have laid the guy out, I may have fallen on him and slashed him as I got up. And then gone into the stands to slap his mother.

 

[Abe Vigoda]

If it was me, not only would I have laid the guy out, I may have fallen on him and slashed him as I got up. And then gone into the stands to slap his mother.[/QUOTE]

You sure you are not from Philadelphia?

 

[elocomotive]

I read his book, and I thought he came across as pretty decent. Yes, I know he had a writer to help, but still. Since he stood his ground (right or wrong) he faced a lot of shit. And being an arrogant guy, he could have gotten in a lot worse trouble.

One story he told was some team he was playing in Bantam or Junior (don't remember which) and the team had someone else who wore #88. And the in rink PA guy kept saying "Goal by *OUR* #88, so-and-so", etc. All game long, "*OUR #88" "OUR #88". And their #88 was chirping the whole game. So he got annoyed by it and laid out their #88. As the kid laid on the ice, he made a "gunslinger" gesture and blew on his glove and acted like he put it in a holster. The next day, the story in the paper was about the "Vicious and unprovoked attack" on their #88, how Lindros was a showboat and it suggested that Eric was just jealous that the other #88 was just as good.

If it was me, not only would I have laid the guy out, I may have fallen on him and slashed him as I got up. And then gone into the stands to slap his mother.

Yeah, but anyone can seem nice in a book they write about themselves. Check out this passage from my autobiography...

My sister had a cat, and the cat birthed a litter of kittens. Must've been 8 of them, and there was this one little runt... this little sweet little... little-engine-that-could runt... who wanted to get up there and couldn't really get access to the-- to the-- to the-- to the-- to the teat. What have you. I went in and just simply, you know, just-- into a little saucer, then took the saucer and fed it to Geppetto-- that's what I named him.

 

[forty_three]

Yeah, but anyone can seem nice in a book they write about themselves. Check out this passage from my autobiography...

True. My autobiography starts like this:

Now, on the day I was born... the nurses all gathered 'round. And gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found. The head Nurse spoke up - said "leave this one alone". They could tell right away. I was bad to the bone.

 

[Abe Vigoda]

Broke a thousand hearts....

 

[Abe Vigoda]

before I met you

 

[Abe Vigoda]

break a thousand more, baby

 

[Abe Vigoda]

before I am through.....

 

[Abe Vigoda]

Thursday afternoon and Im bored at work.....

Time for a little "Let's Go Rangers" chant.....

Hank you want to start us off since you are the newly minted Rangers fan?
Or since it's Thersday, you like the twin sisters and Vancouver today??

Why couldnt you root for the Kings?????

 

[Phantomphan]

If it was me, not only would I have laid the guy out, I may have fallen on him and slashed him as I got up. And then gone into the stands to slap his mother.

You sure you are not from Philadelphia?[/QUOTE]

Nah. That's pretty tame stuff as far as we're concerned.

 

[forty_three]

You sure you are not from Philadelphia?

Worse. I'm from Baltimore.

 

[elocomotive]

True. My autobiography starts like this:

Lmao!