[lit-ideas] Re: "Facetitious factitious ficticious" or feverishly fantastic football?


On 22-Jun-09, at 8:14 PM, Paul Stone wrote:


[very humourous mal-dream expurgated]
IIRC, in the 1975 NHL (National Hockey League) playoffs -- affectionately labeled the "fog series" because of very humid May weather in Buffalo, NY which caused the players to be skating around blind in the arena. To combat it, they periodically skated around the arena (about 40 guys) quickly to cause a cyclonic action to raise the fog to continue the game -- The philadelphia fans decided that to further discombobulate the opponent, they would throw numerous pucks on the ice in the middle of play (of course, only during Buffalo's possession) often resulting in mayhem and confusion. The refs had no recourse but to blow the whistle. I wonder if they added some sort of forfeit rule for that happening in the future, because I've never seen that happen since.
Thanks for this anecdote, Mr Stone. It just goes to show you, that truth is more often than you think stranger than the most feverish fantasy. 

Karl Trogge
Hamburg
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