http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/tmr/comments/throwing_an_octopus_i...
"if you throw an octopus at Joe Louis Arena, during a Red Wings game, you will be ejected, fined $500, face a court hearing, and possibly sent to jail if you do not pay $150 to the Detroit Police department"
The NHL/Bettman are rediculous. Octopus throwing has only been going on for 15 years without any kind of incident.
Fuck Gary Bettman
guy just called into 97.1
apparently the NHL officials were the driving force of all of it while local police and Red Wings officials (a ticket taker actually acknowledged it as he brought it in) haven't cared. he'll be made a martyr figure and be more than fine in the end but this is def NHL overstepping.
An octopus
An octopus can feel pain and pleasure. While I enjoy the tradition, unless the octopus exits the ice unharmed (thrown through the air to land on a sheet of ice?), I must support the preventative measures. The enjoyment gleaned simply isn't worth the sacrifice.
Edit: I've just realized that dead octopuses can also be thrown. Oh well, I laughed at myself.
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Are the octopi being thrown
Are the octopi being thrown alive?
I can understand your
I can understand your position and would support the NHL if this was their reasoning. Although, the NHL says it poses a danger to the players from the residue/slime left over from the octopus. Which over 15 years of tossing them is obviously incorrect. Finally, I am nearly 100% certain all the octopus thrown are dead.
Somewhere Roll Damn Tide is lurking...
Oh yes
Wouldn't want those sharp blades to slip on all that residue.
They aren't throwing live
They aren't throwing live octupi ffs.
Generally the octopi are
Generally the octopi are boiled before taking them to the game....
Oh yeah...and Bettman is still an ass...
and think
And think of the little octopus' kids! Think of the kids people!!
Please, think of the children!
How exactly would one even go
How exactly would one even go about sneaking a live octopus into the stadium?
If an OSU fan divorces his wife are they still brother and sister?
Don't ask...
But it should bring to mind your father's watch, a Vietnamese POW camp, and Christopher Walken.
Comprehensive
guide here that goes through the cooking, lore and execution of the process
http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/TCP/faq/TCPfaq2b.cfm?ID=59
Go Blue! Always.
ironically
this guy said he didn't even hide it - carried it in a bag and security, etc, said nothing
*octopi
Bettman continues
*octopi
Bettman continues to brutally murder everything good about the NHL
Special Teams means special times!
It's been going on since 1952.
Has anyone here ever actually thrown an octopus onto the ice? I always wondered how people carried them in. Obvious answer would be a cooler, but that's not allowed these days.
Go Blue!
Tentacles in places one
Tentacles in places one generally does not want tentacles?
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I love the Wings, and grew up
I love the Wings, and grew up loving them, but...wow. At some point that's just a little too much for me.
I also won't be putting a wolverine in my backseat on the way to a tailgate any time soon.
Go Blue!
The Japanese would disagree
The Japanese would disagree with you.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
They wrap it around their leg
They wrap it around their leg basically.
"Leg." Surrrrre.
"Leg." Surrrrre.
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This video is completely full
This video is completely full of win.
I laughed my ass off.
How 'bout I punchisize your face, for free.
straight ballin'
straight ballin'
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Coolest thing I've seen all
Coolest thing I've seen all week. I went to the Red WIngs/Hurricanes game in Raleigh last Wednesday and 3 octopi were thrown onto the ice even though we were down 3-0.
Special Teams means special times!
Well, unless you're planning
Well, unless you're planning on bringing them back home to cook, they are definitely getting flung.
How 'bout I punchisize your face, for free.
I wonder if they taste better
I wonder if they taste better after they're stuffed down your shorts for a few hours?
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Slow cooking with body
Slow cooking with body warmth?
How 'bout I punchisize your face, for free.
I do believe there was a
I do believe there was a Simpsons where Comic Book Guy used his body heat to bake brownies.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Simpsons did it
Simpsons did it
Somewhere Roll Damn Tide is lurking...
Simpsons Did It!
Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.
Ok, that's a good point.
Ok, that's a good point.
Special Teams means special times!
Those guys
are my new favorite people.
I thought about posting
a thread similar to this in the fact that it has to do w/ Octopus throwing at wings game. I may be only 20 but i've seen enough wings playoff games to know the tradition of the octopus. I think that betman is doing this for the fact that it has gotten a little out of control. Now you see the octopus all the time during the regular season on the road and you see about 3 or 4 during a playoff game. It used to be 1 or 2 at the most during a game but it has gotten out of hand so i can sort of see where Betman is going with this one, even though it's a bit harsh.. I honestly don't think it matters, our wings fan base still has some crazies in it (which i love) that will throw the pie on the ice regardless. GO WINGS!!
Hello, 911? yeah it's Quagmire. yeah, I got it caught in the window this time.
Then what about this guy?
I mean they still use this
My point is proven
My point is proven. That is clearly a live octopus.
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Yea, and they sell plush toys
Yea, and they sell plush toys of them as well. I took my daughter to her first playoff game last night and she wanted one. It cost me 30 bucks. They also sell t-shirts with him on it. If its really a problem they shouldn't be marketing it.
If an OSU fan divorces his wife are they still brother and sister?
It's only a problem to tight
It's only a problem to tight assed executives who want to go about and ruin the sport.
In the name of St. Paul of Germany
No more octopus should be murdered for sport
Instead use them to make money!
GMAT score =800 = Defensive POTY
Nope!!
No way on earth this ever gets enforced. The Red Wings take pride in their fans. While the individual may still be ejected if they get caught, their is no way that the DP is going to enforce this ridiculous rule. Gary Bettman seriously needs to be fired before he ruins the entire tradition of the NHL.
Agreed
I just cant stand Bettman and what he's trying to do. but with the consussion movement, everyone (read: dumb people) sees him as a hero and making the sport safer. Get rid of Colin Campbell too. I seriously believe that the NHL Playoffs have become corrupt. NHL/Refs have an agenda and the Campbell Email debacle kinda proved that.
I couldn't agree more.
I couldn't agree more. Bettman needs to go. I can remember back in the 90's watching not just the Wings playoff series, but the overall NHL Playoffs. So much better hockey. Hitting was heavier, and games were more intense. Today's game seems too planned and pretty. Hockey shouldn't be a "pretty" space. And as I have said many times, officials today want to be a part of the game too much. We should not notice the impact of the officiating the way we do in professional sports. It's a shame the way the NHL has changed over the last 10 years.
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I've never heard of this link before (is it even real)? This is on my bucket list so I will find out one day!
This will never be enforced regardless but anyway I love the story a few years back when a guy did it at Pittsburg and got thrown out. Then he scalped a ticket outside and got right back in for like $500
Despite what the other guy calls himself, my name actually is Magnus.
I've heard about threats to
I've heard about threats to ban octopi throwing many times before, the act of banning octopi throwing should be illegal, not the act of throwing octopi.
15 years?
you may be right but I remember an octopus being thrown on the ice in the 80's against edmonton.
Or I am crazy and you are right.
Someone else further up said
Someone else further up said it has been going on since 1952.
Side note, upon reading your name I thought of this for some reason.
How 'bout I punchisize your face, for free.
Haha,
You are right, someone further up did say that, my bad for not reading the posts first.
You are one of a select few who even remember that movie or the title. One of my NCO's in the Corps used to call me Harry Crumb. When I tell people that I get the deer in headlights look.
Props to you, i would give you a pos vote but I dont have enough points to do so
Old tradition
This has been going on for many years, the eight legs of the octopus represented the 8 wins you needed to win the Stanley Cup back in the old days. It was never much of an issue until back in the 90's (?) at some point the people supporting the Florida panthers began to throw plastic rats on the ice, it became really annoying as they would throw hundrends of them out on the ice and the clean up would take many minutes of time away from the game. This was what started the NHL looking at banning things such as the octupus.
Semper Fidelis
Branching out from the video above
I found this.
EDIT: check out the score in the bottom right corner.
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This is the background to the
This is the background to the tradition.
Syracuse '03, Michigan G'05
Space bitches, space.
It'll never be enforced.
This is home...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgijdypJUEQ