HOCKEY!

@Targaryen I am also a Star Wars fan

@Targaryen @zinimusprime
/image go sports

@Targaryen @therealjrn @zinimusprime I think I found a compromise!

@meverett @Targaryen @therealjrn I’m a Bruins fan, but no biggie.

@meverett @therealjrn @zinimusprime Nice find.

@zinimusprime What part of Massachusetts or New England are you from?

@Targaryen At the southern intersection of 495 and 95 in the lovely town of Mansfield!

@zinimusprime
I live in Assonet…near Fall River…but I relocated from NC and hate the Bruins and the Pats…LOL

@tinamarie1974 That’s awesome.

LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!

@zinimusprime

@tohar1 Gotta mix them together. Try “Go Bluins?” Does that work?

@Targaryen I’ll allow that!

@tinamarie1974 I like your team. Your goalie is a dink.

@tinamarie1974 @zinimusprime Which team has that walrus as a goalie?

@therealjrn @zinimusprime This guy? Looks like he is wearing blue, soooooo

@zinimusprime not gonna discuss my goalie this close to game time. But his record speaks for itself

@tinamarie1974 @zinimusprime and he’s a ROOKIE!

@chienfou @zinimusprime a rookie who can write his own ticket!!

The horoscopes were right!

@canuk you go against Patrice Bergeron?! He’s a man amongst men!

@zinimusprime What a game, what a series. Both were deserving but OMG that was one helluva game for Binnington.

Thank you @zinimusprime! It was an amazing game. Both teams did a great job

@chienfou OK. I can live with that one (#5…)

@chienfou awesome

LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!

@f00l it’s the best trophy in all sports. Football is the best sport, but that cup is the best trophy.

@zinimusprime

The Vince Lombardi trophy is superficially kinda “crystal-pretty”, but it also looks quite self-aggrandizing and self-mythologizing
(gosh: would the NFL ever be guilty of those attitudes?)

And it also looks super-super-overdesigned-corporate.

Looks like the sort of incredibly-self-congratulatory thing you might see in a Fortune 100 corporate boardroom.

Oops. That’s kinda what the NFL management over-structure is:
a boardroom full of self-important rich people and media experts.
Who are frequently either lying, or full of shit, or both.

I don’t particularly like that Lombardi trophy.
(In case that’s not quite obvious.)

Whereas, the much-battered Stanley Cup is cool.

@f00l @zinimusprime Hey! Sports-ball players are HEROES!

@therealjrn @zinimusprime

The players are fine by me. As are most of the coaching and support staff.

/giphy “go sports!”

The NFL owners and the NFL overall-management have frequently made the error of thinking of themselves as sports-people.

/giphy NOT

@f00l @zinimusprime I see you are in a mood, well then.

Let us consider the owners and management as the real heroes here. They are the unsung job creators, offering many minority clients a job with above average wages…why should they not be well-compensated and revered?

@therealjrn @zinimusprime

Re owners: I often admire their biz sense. I don’t denigrate their financial or management successes.

I don’t particularly like it when owners hoodwink/politically-influence local citizens into over-generous tax and financial packages.
But voters will be voters. They will do as they wish.
I’ve never lived in a city that rolled over financially for an owner, so never had the chance to vote “go to hell” re that.

I only dislike their (re: some owners) quite public brazen and egoistical embarrassing buffoonery. And these “buffoon owners” apparent sometime confusion about the level of their own sports-performance insight and management skills.

My feelings on this topic might possibly be influenced by my feelings about the conduct of the current-most-famous-and-influential of our local billionaire owners.

Please note that I neither dispute, nor begrudge, this person’s business success or business brilliance.

I only dislike his public and private sports-specific egotism. Esp the idea he holds of being capable of second-guessing great coaching staffs.

But he’s the owner. I understand that he gets to do as he pleases.

@zinimusprime Awe, I’m just messing with you @f00l . : )

@therealjrn @zinimusprime

owners and management as the real heroes here.

I would disagree.

Excellent sports performance would (and does) exist completely without the modern cultural and biz-environmental enlargement of billionaire owners, major promotional contracts, ESPN, huge stadiums, and beer contracts.

Excellent sports would not exist without great playing and coaching.

A great owner might contribute to sports culture and health. A bad owner might not.

Owners do assist with big money sports-related business/jobs/etc.
But they don’t create great sports. And never will.

@therealjrn @zinimusprime

Awe, I’m just messing with you @f00l . : )

I figured.

Give your hero Jerry Jones a kiss for me. Ok?

@f00l @zinimusprime On the mouth?

@therealjrn @zinimusprime

Tongue to tongue, please. With lipstick.

The world needs more /giphies