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Hockey for pizza

Posted Sunday, August 19, 2007, at 10:05 PM
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See if you can find me in this photo.

Most people who have played sports can relate to being

in the so-called zone. When as a basketball player every shot seems to go in as a golfer you seem to make every putt. My time in the zone came when I was a 13 year old hockey player in Wayne, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Our second game of the year we got new uniforms. The coach asked me what number I would like. I chose number 9 as I was a great Gordie Howe fan. Gordie Howe was one of the all-time great hockey players for the Detroit Redwings and wore number 9. My father told me if I ever scored 3 goals in a game he would buy me a pizza. (Three goals in a hockey game is like scoring 30 points in a basketball game.) I wish you could have seen the look on my father's face when the first game I wore number nine I scored nine goals. The coach being alot like myself wanted to give me number 10 the next game. But I was definitely in the zone that day.

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this is a guess but your #5 from the left or next to the coach.

and I to know THE Zone... one day it was so commical the other Basketball players started pushing me as I shot--still hit, I switched to my opposite hand to shoot and still did... alas my ONE time in that Zone was not during a real game just practice. That day I never missed any shot from any place on the floor until quitting time... YES FOLKS IT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOUR DREAMS!

-- Posted by silerCityDude on Sun, Aug 19, 2007, at 11:30 PM

this is a guess but your #5 from the left or next to the coach.

-- Posted by silerCityDude on Sun, Aug 19, 2007, at 11:31 PM

Junior year, third start, I was one hit away from pitching a no hitter, a single to third, still remember it to this day, 2 outs, 2 stikes, top of the ninth, heart breaking, no pizza, but I was in the ZONE!!!!

You are 2nd from the right

-- Posted by CranialMan on Mon, Aug 20, 2007, at 11:32 AM

I'm pretty sure that Gordie Howe was a much better hockey player than Gordie Howell, whoever that is.

-- Posted by Bruther on Mon, Aug 20, 2007, at 11:45 AM

I feel the need to clarify. It was tied 0 to 0 in the top of the ninth, extra innings, we won the game in the bottom of the 10th with a walk-off homer, I left the game after the hit but was doing all I could to get the not hitter.

-- Posted by CranialMan on Mon, Aug 20, 2007, at 3:10 PM

In the zone, ah yes, not long ago I was in there. A nine iron on hole number 1 flew straight and true to the middle of the green and then one hopped into the hole. Then on my second shot to hole number 2, I one hopped it again into the cup. As I drilled my drive off of hole #3, it became evident that it was sailing some three hundred yards right down the middle of the fairway and then...then...., I woke up..

Yeah Joe, you're all the way on the right.

-- Posted by simmons on Mon, Aug 20, 2007, at 6:01 PM

You must be the guy just left of center.

Did the other team have a goalkeeper?

-- Posted by Wiglund on Mon, Aug 20, 2007, at 9:52 PM

I'll tell you something that is a rather illuminating factoid, which really amazed me when I looked at the picture, and it jumps right out at you, they had electric lights when Joe was just 13 years old. Wow, who would have imagined that? :>)

-- Posted by simmons on Tue, Aug 21, 2007, at 7:20 PM

So which one are you?

-- Posted by CranialMan on Mon, Aug 27, 2007, at 4:24 PM

CranialMan,you got me early.I was

second on the right with white tape

on stick.

-- Posted by joehart on Tue, Aug 28, 2007, at 9:55 AM

You might try that tape trick on a wedge Joe, it couldn't hurt. :>)

-- Posted by simmons on Tue, Aug 28, 2007, at 7:28 PM

Come on Joe, write something new so we can pick on you some more. How about something about the evils of casinos, or riding with Wigs during a flashback, or all night painting jobs, just anything to get this thing moving again. I'm tired of that hockey picture, I'd rather look at a good field of soybeans.

-- Posted by simmons on Thu, Aug 30, 2007, at 11:34 AM

It is a good time to revive this blog. While Simmons is looking at soybeans for no apparent reason. It comes to my attention that not only does Joe's stick have tape on it. The stick looks as if it has pine tar too. Should this feat be voided. All the other sticks look like they follow the rules. Joe owes us all a pizza.

-- Posted by Wiglund on Thu, Aug 30, 2007, at 10:34 PM

Someone revive old Joe, he's got writers block or he can't bear to get that silly 50 year old hockey picture out of the paper. Don't worry Joe, it will go to the archives, a place they should put old fogeys like you who can't write more than one article a month. Can't you write something, cat got your laptop.

Say it ain't so, Joe.

-- Posted by simmons on Wed, Sep 5, 2007, at 6:36 PM

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