Gary Nickle's blog
So the Toronto Raptors kick off their 13th season tonight, and to celebrate, I decided to share my list of my 5 favorite Raptors of all time. The picks were solely based on likability, not athletic ability, so this list is not the 5 BEST Raps ever, alright, now with that being said, prepare to take a wonderful trip down memory lane, and enjoy!
Number 5
Mugsy Bogues
Alright, Mitchell Blair has written a blog about our Rawlco Fantasy Hockey Pool, and more importantly, taken some shots at yours truly.
Before we get started here, the title has to do with one of my favorite songs / videos of all time, to see it click on my main man Aldo Nova's guitar -
Alright, if I'm a Vancouver Canucks fan, ( which I am not) I am not very happy right now. The team has just named Roberto Luongo their team captain. That's right, they named their goalie captain, but since he can't rock the "C", defenceman, and assistant captain Willie Mitchell will do all the talking with the officials.This means that the team will have three players with "A"s, and no official "C".
So the Riders got me in trouble again, for those of you scoring at home, that makes it Riders 3 - Gary 0. So what happened this time? It was your typical formula, 8 pm kick off, a good buddy's wedding, vodka, wedding ceremony tailgating = trouble.
So the wedding started at 3pm, so the celebrating started around noon, (thanks to Brewhouse for sponsoring the pre wedding tailgate party) then it was off to the church. After my good pal Patrick took the dive, and married his beautiful wife Nicole, it was back to business.
I am not a Tom Brady fan, never have been, I was a huge Drew Bledsoe fan, or as my buddy Pete calls him, the Human Statue, ( Because he was really really slow, and got sacked alot.) and in my eyes Tom Brady ended my man Bledsoe's career. So how good did I feel Sunday, as I watched Brady go down for the season? Pretty good.
So Chad Johnson is my new favorite NFL football player. I love guys who realize that entertainment in football is just as important as winning. Ok, I understand guys who don't like the showboating, you know, the old school traditionalists, but man I love watching Ocho Cinco score touchdowns, because you know something awesome is going to happen. (I'll be loving him more now since i got him in my fantasy football draft.)
So how about this. A nine year old pitcher in a co-ed little league in the States has been told he can no longer pitch. Why you ask? Is it because he keeps beaning little kids in the head? Nope. Is it because he threatend someones life? Try again. Did he start a huge brawl by threatening another kids life, then beaning him in the head? If he did that, he would probably still be pitching. Instead, the nine year old child has been banned from pitching because he throws TOO HARD!! So this leaves me with one question, where were these people when I was a kid??!!!
Finally some NEW exciting stories to come out of the Olympics.
So Aquaman has done it all right? Michael Phelps, the super human, half man, half fish is the proud owner of 14 Olympic medals. All the big money experts are saying he could be worth over 1 billion dollars over the rest of his life. So what is the next step? Wheaties of course.
I am so sick of the freaking Olympics talk, it reminds me of that Adam Sandler/Chris Farley skit, with the Zagats food guide, you can see the skit here.
