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Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

Gurtholfin said:
No worries. I asked last minute. We were only up for the one night as our first game on Saturday was at 5 PM. Weird timing on the tourney overall as our last game was yesterday at 5 PM. We were the only team (of like 18-20) that travelled in from out of the area though, so the organizers weren't worried about the late starts.

Still... even if I was local, I wouldn't be thrilled about a 7 PM game on a Sunday night which is when some of the last games were played.

We got to the championship, but fell to a Woodbury team. Their parents were even worse than the Eagan ones... and they beat us. News flash parents... every once in a while, something that one of your kids did was actually a penalty/infraction and not EVERYTHING that ours did was. Wish we would have brought our full varsity team instead of the varsity/jv mix that we did. Still had them 3-3 late in the third quarter. Oh well.

I was a coach throughout youth hockey, so never had to listen to that crap. I often wonder if the whiners actually ever played a sport.

I was really close to taking a kleenex to one of the Wayzata dads in the semis. I seriously wanted to pull off one of his arms and cram it down his throat to shut him up. Luckily he got quiet once we pulled away.


Overall though, very nice although short visit to the area that we almost chose to settle in after college. Always reminds me of why we wanted to move there and why we liked it so much.
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Woodbury and Wayzata are fairly affluent suburbs. Eagan has portions that are fairly affluent too. Then you add in the living-vicariously-through-your-children aspect, and I'm seeing a trend emerge here.

You were here for Lacrosse, right? If so, then the vast majority of the parents have never played it. Until recently, Lacrosse was often played by multiple high schools coming together to form a single team. It might still be that way in some parts of the metro area.
 
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St. Clown said:
Woodbury and Wayzata are fairly affluent suburbs. Eagan has portions that are fairly affluent too. Then you add in the living-vicariously-through-your-children aspect, and I'm seeing a trend emerge here.

You were here for Lacrosse, right? If so, then the vast majority of the parents have never played it. Until recently, Lacrosse was often played by multiple high schools coming together to form a single team. It might still be that way in some parts of the metro area.
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Makes sense. We certainly have some of those groups of parents down here too. There have been a parent or two on my boy's teams over the years in lacrosse and recently since I stopped coaching, in hockey also that I just had to not sit/stand by.

And yes, we've actually discussed how lacrosse is a rare thing in that most of us never played it. Much like soccer when I was a kid in the late 70s and 80s.

I've gotten pretty good at playing lacrosse "catch" though and will even put on the helmet and elbow pads, grab a d-pole (the long one) and beat on my kid in the back yard while he tries to shoot on the net. It's good practice for him to go against someone who is bigger than him and far meaner. ;):cool:

My hockey experience definitely translates to lacrosse.
 
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REDRocket said:
One or two. Ever dealt with Union or Cornell fans? Yeesh.
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I believe the #26 Onion and St, Clouuud memes on this site came from an SCSU/Union thread. It's been a while, so I could very well be wrong on this point.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

After playing pickup hockey in Brooklyn Park, usually on Saturday nights, we hit the local bar for a couple hours. In that bar they have a TouchTunes jukebox, and it turns out that TouchTunes has a smart phone app out there where you can buy credits and get the songs played on the local box. This Saturday we started finding the corniest songs to play in retaliation to some really horrible 70s pop songs that the older folks were playing (60s and early 70s in age). It was funny to see them get going, dancing in their seats and getting the wait staff involved during some of the bad songs they played and the really horrible songs we'd play. I queued up "Fat Bottom Girls" - a fun song, IMO, but one that usually gets certain reactions from people, and not a one of them was willing to go along with that one. :D One guy in our group likes death metal, and will play a song or two each night that only he likes while the entire bar pretty much goes quiet and just endures.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

St. Clown said:
After playing pickup hockey in Brooklyn Park, usually on Saturday nights, we hit the local bar for a couple hours. In that bar they have a TouchTunes jukebox, and it turns out that TouchTunes has a smart phone app out there where you can buy credits and get the songs played on the local box. This Saturday we started finding the corniest songs to play in retaliation to some really horrible 70s pop songs that the older folks were playing (60s and early 70s in age). It was funny to see them get going, dancing in their seats and getting the wait staff involved during some of the bad songs they played and the really horrible songs we'd play. I queued up "Fat Bottom Girls" - a fun song, IMO, but one that usually gets certain reactions from people, and not a one of them was willing to go along with that one. :D One guy in our group likes death metal, and will play a song or two each night that only he likes while the entire bar pretty much goes quiet and just endures.
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I wonder if that's what happened when we were up at Giant's Ridge. The box in the bar was playing the most off-the-wall punk stuff and finally one of the staff went over and unplugged it because so many people had complained about it.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

Looking at the FB posting of the Scholarship Luncheon for my alma mater. Mother of Pearl! What these people think are acceptable business casual or even appropriate outside of their room is :eek: A cleavage down below the boobs dhort dress, painted on skirts, etc. You don't need to wear old lady clothes but HOLY COW don't look like you are going out to work your corner after you eat lunch.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

goldy_331 said:
I wonder if that's what happened when we were up at Giant's Ridge. The box in the bar was playing the most off-the-wall punk stuff and finally one of the staff went over and unplugged it because so many people had complained about it.
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Probably. TouchTunes likely isn't the only line of jukeboxes out there that has an app to run it, so something like that should be increasing in popularity as they take up very little space and can bring at least a little cash into the bar.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

Done in New York. We got the engine fixed by 1PM after the distributor had been working on it since May. Always good to impress the $100M+ customers. (This is one you'd all recognize, computer company, 3 letter acronym...)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

bigblue_dl said:
done in new york. We got the engine fixed by 1pm after the distributor had been working on it since may. Always good to impress the $100m+ customers. (this is one you'd all recognize, computer company, 3 letter acronym...)
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hal? :)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

Re: Cornell fans: I've met quite a few over the years at F4s. They are quirky, but fun.

Re: TouchTunes: I am aware of that app. stateofhockey abuses that app. I just put in the extra money to access the internet on the jukebox, because I don't care. I play what I want to hear, which is usually some really odd stuff. Nothing like hearing Ana Tijoux's "1977" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7S38nKog ) in a redneck white trash bar. :D
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

Brenthoven said:
IIRC, bbdl was hitting on one, at a past F4. :D And we knew exactly which one, even though we weren't there.
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Nice. I was present for some of that, I think. :) One of the posters/hosers from the Denver FF got married last weekend (10/17) to a girl he met at the DC FF who is also a Cornell fan (not the one bb was hitting on).
 
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bostonewe said:
Nice. I was present for some of that, I think. :) One of the posters/hosers from the Denver FF got married last weekend (10/17) to a girl he met at the DC FF who is also a Cornell fan (not the one bb was hitting on).
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Who was the tall lanky bearded guy? He was the one fan that stood out, besides the female Cornell fan that bbdl hit on.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

bostonewe said:
In Denver or in DC?
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He was in Denver and Mpls, IIRC. Def in Mpls, but I swear he was in Denver, too, he seemed familiar. VERY quirky. Sent you a link to his pic on FB.
 
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