Hockey Fight!
Okay, we’re about one million views behind on this one, but it’s just too good to pass up. I mean watch that Mazza player drop those gloves! Artwork!
Tag: Sports
Odd Sports News: North Korea in World Cup
I wonder how many people know that North Korea will be having a team in the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. We sure didn’t. It’s only the second time in history that they’ll be in the tournament, and the first time was all the way back in 1966. Fascinating.
The Great Hockey FLUSH OFF
Looks like Uncle John’s going to have to get himself a ticket to Pittsburgh, PA:
The Pittsburgh Penguins are looking for 250 students to help with an important task and there’s only one major requirement: You must know how to flush a toilet.
Uncle John totally knows that!
Construction is near completion on the NHL team’s new arena, the Consol Energy Center. But like with any new arena or stadium, officials need to simultaneously flush all the toilets and urinals to make sure everything is working. The Penguins are calling the June 10 event the “Student Flush,” a spinoff of their popular ticketing program known as “Student Rush.”
And they can each take a copy of Uncle John’s Shoots and Scores Bathroom Reader with them when they…go! Woo hoo! Pittsburgh here we come!
May 3 in NASCAR History: The Allison Crash
Today is the anniversary of the crash that changed NASCAR. It was 1987, and Bobby Allison was just twenty-two laps into a race at the great Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, when he blew a tire, went airborne at roughly 200 mph, and nearly went through the fence protecting the fans from the track. Several spectators were hurt, and the crash resulted in NASCAR beginning the era of the restrictor plate, slowing the racecars down on the big tracks like Talladega.
The video is guaranteed to give you chills:
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a shortstop!
Holy cow, don’t know how we missed this YouTube clip. Here’s to Fordham University’s Brian Kownacki, and the “Safe!” heard ’round the (YouTube) world. (1,193,475 views…in two days.) Here’s a quote from Kownacki to set the clip up:
“I got about halfway between third and home and I knew I was in trouble, but there was no turning back,” he tells the Daily News. ” When I was about five feet away, I saw the catcher kneel down in a crouch.”
96-Year-old Becomes World’s Oldest Bungy Jumper (Updated)
I don’t know about you, but if I was 96 years old I’d be afraid that bungy jumping might, I don’t know, make parts of my body fall off or something. But not South African Mohr Keet. And holy cow, watch the video—that’s a really high bridge. (216 meters, or 708 feet high!)
Our favorite part: After Mr. Keet jumped, his daughter did, too. She’s 72 62. (And they both said they were “poop scared” before jumping.)
