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Post by PW on Sept 16, 2004 20:25:48 GMT 1
A slightly more lighthearted topic-nicked shamelessly from the Steelers forum-what's your funniest Blaze-related moment? Here's a few to start you off...
The most famous 'fishing trip' of all-Mike Torchia being well and truly verbally hammered by 250 or so Blaze fans in Guildford at play-off semi time the year Blaze won it, and waving at the crowd every time 'he's got a pair of beach-balls in his pants' began
Danny Lorenz playing for Guildford, anytime...
Last season-Chris Slater being clobbered by Schlender and thrown out of the game, before responding to the taunts of Block 15 with the excuse 'he had a visor', and someone hurling back 'What's that on your helmet then, clingfilm?!' prompting Slater to turn round and head back toward the stairs and offending Blaze fan to soil himself...
Tony Hand's reaction to 300 dummy-waving Blaze fans...
The day we replaced GSTQ with Sweet Chariot in Cardiff to commemorate the Rugby World Cup win, prompting Dennis Maxwell to almost kill himself laughing, and several threats of violence to come from the balcony above...
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Post by King Rich on Sept 16, 2004 20:41:30 GMT 1
The time after Fife's zamboni broke down and I was on the Scotland trip, and the "Fife have no Zamboni" song started up outside the arena ;D
There's loads but I can't think of any more at the mo...
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Post by JAC on Sept 16, 2004 20:58:12 GMT 1
Oh Wheeler please get it right - it was actually the league game in January of that season which was midweek and a 6pm faceoff (very dubious time - and lots of blaze fans having to get out of work early) - firstly the faces on the guildford fans faces when they saw the number of blaze fans that had made the game - and then the catch of SUMO.... Mike Torchia who all credit to the guy reacted well at the end of the game and got one of the biggedt cheers of the night. Unfortunately the play offgame was a bit of a let down as it just took the one start of the circus music chant and he bit.
And we can't forget the coach trips now can we wheeler.
Unfortunately I missed this one. Going to see the London Knights (in the ISL challenge cup games) at the docklands arena with the coach traveling through London people are asking where is the millenium dome and someone on the coach says they are near it - to which wheeler replied we are nowhere near the millenium dome, only for the coach to round the corner, and guess what was slap bang in view - the millenium dome.
There are plenty more stories such as a certain newcastle trip on a friday, I believe another London one, and other generl trips and comments. Enough requests and these can be told in detail. Or as much as I know anyway.
Wheeler how much is it worth to you for me not to mention any more of these? (and the newcastle one will undoubtedly have to be separate in the negotiations) ;D
The panthers mascot the dodgy rat (paws) getting its tail tied around the post in the away supporters section by a blaze fan was absolutely hilarious. and was funny to see him get his own back with a water pistol the following game.
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Post by PW on Sept 16, 2004 21:36:00 GMT 1
Leave the Newcastle one alone! Otherwise...oh, hang on, you haven't really done owt stupid, have you...  The second London 'round and round Lee Valley' trip was also a laugh-and spawned the 'Lee Valley's rink' verse of Oh When The Blaze-just hoping Whiskey doesn't spot this one as then it will all go to hell. By the way, I think what I actually said was 'there's no water near the Millenium Dome' just as we passed it-on the other side of the Thames. Still-was hilarious  James, do your worst |
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Post by JAC on Sept 16, 2004 22:01:30 GMT 1
There was the one I heard about when you went to play the rec team in London. I believe the comment was we are nowhere near buckingham palace.
Into view comes Buckingham Palace. Which if what i was told was correct you had actually been going round.
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Post by JAC on Sept 16, 2004 22:26:53 GMT 1
Now the Newcastle trip. Play off game schedule joy o joy on a friday night meant another early finish for many at work. On the coach up there Wheeler goes to the toilet and absolutely stinks the coach out, managing to block the thing as well, unsuprisingly as coach toilets aren't designed to cope with that. He then spent 5-10 mins trying to sort out this problem. By now everyone on the coach is suffering with the stench emiting from the toilet. Wheeler finally exiting to quite a few shouts and some piss taking.
We stop not long after at the services and low and behold there is a shop selling car accessories and stuff including air fresheners, so wheeler thinking he can maybe try and make things a bit better buys some air freshener and we get back on the coach and head off. Wheeler then opens the air freshener to find it is only the container and doesn't actually have any air freshener in it. Causing raptious laughter from everyone who saw him trying to figure out how it worked.
A song exists to commemorate this occasion - as we had Ron Shudra - it went
When the sh.. hits the pan its not jody lehman its paul wheeler (shouts of wheeler blocked it)
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Post by Bicks79 on Sept 17, 2004 15:54:56 GMT 1
The findus cup w/end in Newcastle when, after the semi-final win over Dundee quite a few of us went to a little bar down the road from the hotel. On the way back a few people decided to remove the 'for sale' sign in someones garden, and place it in a random garden further up the street! Childish, but amusing! ;D
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Post by King Rich on Sept 17, 2004 16:13:37 GMT 1
There was the time at the play-off finals just gone I was chasing the balloon DaveyBoy let go and fell quite spectacularly over a chain...
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Sept 17, 2004 17:03:58 GMT 1
Now the Newcastle trip. Play off game schedule joy o joy on a friday night meant another early finish for many at work. On the coach up there Wheeler goes to the toilet and absolutely stinks the coach out, managing to block the thing as well, unsuprisingly as coach toilets aren't designed to cope with that. He then spent 5-10 mins trying to sort out this problem. By now everyone on the coach is suffering with the stench emiting from the toilet. Wheeler finally exiting to quite a few shouts and some piss taking. We stop not long after at the services and low and behold there is a shop selling car accessories and stuff including air fresheners, so wheeler thinking he can maybe try and make things a bit better buys some air freshener and we get back on the coach and head off. Wheeler then opens the air freshener to find it is only the container and doesn't actually have any air freshener in it. Causing raptious laughter from everyone who saw him trying to figure out how it worked. A song exists to commemorate this occasion - as we had Ron Shudra - it went When the sh.. hits the pan its not jody lehman its paul wheeler (shouts of wheeler blocked it) I actually missed this one as was watching Harry Hill live!! However I got updates from people and caused Brutha Paul much consternation when he found out I knew ;D Highlights on the ice include Mark Pallister trying to stay upright. The Welsh anthem one the day of the Rugby WCF was the best collective fans moment. As pour moi... well nobodu has yet mentioned my stuntman roll down seven rows of seats at the NIC aided with full backpack. Generally the coach trips cause the most mirth but have too many cases to list. Maybe the old "Diary moments" should be done again on a regular basis to include the like |
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Post by PW on Sept 17, 2004 17:53:12 GMT 1
Is it worth a 'diary' section of the forum so people, should they wish, can keep up with the happenings on away trips? I also seem to remember, back in the BNL season, pulling a Hull cheerleader...after we'd all tought them the Heaven dance and got them to perform it the next break in play, much to the surprise of Hull players and crowd alike-on the same game 3 young locals decided to try and give the Blaze fans some stick, before being stopped in their tracks by 100 Coventrians singing 'do your mothers know you're here' and far worse... Then there was a certain poster to this forum (not me), on a trip to Pantie-land, running through the fixtures of all the other teams before asking the whole coach 'hang on, who are Panthers playing today?' Cue a thunderous outburst of laughter, and the poor sod with a very Irish look of confusion on his face, to be sure Also the time waving carrots in Guildford, and having the stewards solemnly confiscate everyone, prompting Andy Barlow to say to one 'that must be a f*cking big Sunday roast you're cooking!' |
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Sept 17, 2004 18:58:41 GMT 1
Then there was a certain poster to this forum (not me), on a trip to Pantie-land, running through the fixtures of all the other teams before asking the whole coach 'hang on, who are Panthers playing today?' Cue a thunderous outburst of laughter, and the poor sod with a very Irish look of confusion on his face, to be sure This reminds me of the time when myself and two others were coming back on the train from the NIC after the last ever ISL play offs (You shall remain nameless PW...whoops) when one of them commented on the Steelers vs Belfast game by asking "Who were the Sheffield fans cheering for in that game" In fact the train journeys on that weekend (3 of us on the Saturday and 4 on the Sunday) held so many memories that a Hollywood script couldn't have done it justice. The smelly toilet on the train with everyone pushing past some poor wheelchair bound guy to see this cringefest! The practice game with tiny plastic hockey sticks in B'ham station where PW (Oops named him again) manageged to open up a young girls lip! Team W taking on about 5 Manchester Storm (Remenber them?) anklebiters downstairs in the NIC near where the stalls were that year The hardcore hooligan Panthers fans we sat with (None of them were below 70) and how they reacted when we did the dance for RAOTW (My shame) and when we cheered the House goal with .02 seconds left against a stunned home crowd. The mad rush to get a pizza back to the dancing crew in between the two semis and many many more |
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Post by Carpo on Sept 17, 2004 20:25:27 GMT 1
Getting given a bottle of champagne for some reason when we won the league!
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Sept 17, 2004 23:05:19 GMT 1
Yeah I seem to recall a bottle of champers or to being merrily passed around on the walk from Dundees rink to the nearby pub which the Barmy Army took over for the rest of the night. As each player walked in one by one they were serenaded with their own signature song.
Wouldn't it be nice to repeat this next March
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Post by PW on Sept 20, 2004 15:08:21 GMT 1
Just thought I'd get this in before anyone else-Pavol Mihalik connecting with John Craighead last night in one of the most glorious hip-checks I've ever seen, causing the Panther to turn a full somersault in the air (thankfully he landed on his front and not his head) as his stick spun one way, his helmet went another, and his hair showed itself in all its glory-only improved by the confused 'what the hell was that?' facial expression as he stood up and tried to work out which player to go for-Pavol, meanwhile, skating away as if this was an everyday occurence...
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Post by PW on Sept 20, 2004 15:19:16 GMT 1
The practice game with tiny plastic hockey sticks in B'ham station where PW (Oops named him again) manageged to open up a young girls lip! (I should add to this that Pip took revenge immediately with a beauty of a left uppercut to the side of the head-I was seeing stars after that... (The first victory of a BNL team vs ISL-it was again with the miniature hockey sticks, and we beat them 7-3 with me getting 3+4 and Whiskey getting 4+3-happy days) A bit of history here-we had been getting on well with them up til then, particularly as we naturally supported Belfast v the Steelers. However, for some reason, Craig Whiskey and I went for the Knights, as the underdog, in the second semi-was highly amusing as the Knights scored and we leapt up, saw the looks we were getting and leapt back down twice as fast-however, with the famous 0.2 second goal, as the Knights pressed Craig actually said 'they'll score here' and we all went 'as if-it's overtime' Then Maxwell banged home the puck in a scrimmage in front of the net, and we went ballistic, leaping up, cheering (there may even have been a hug or two) like we'd just seen the Blaze win the BNL (hang on...  Anyway-after about ten seconds of unbridled joy and even a shout or two of 'Get in!' we came back to earth-to find 800 shocked, disappointed and angry Panthers fans staring at us with murderous expressions-our feet spat sparks as we headed for the nearest chip-shop.... |
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