O.T: Abdelkader takes a run at the Big House:
“We were joking around (when) we went over the Big House,” the Red Wings forward and former Michigan State star said of Michigan Stadium. “If we’d had a couple of bombs on it (the jet), maybe we would have dropped a couple on there.”
Pilot Lt. David Tickle, an Alabama native, said: “One of the maneuvers that I can show him is a bombing hop. … We just happened to be over Ann Arbor at the time, and I know he’s a Michigan State guy. So it worked out great we could pretend we were bombing Ann Arbor for him.
“Obviously I would never bomb Ann Arbor. I have nothing against Michigan.”
Not so awesome.
Not so awesome.
Double post. On my phone or else I'd edit. Sorry, gents.
Always an idiot.
He then picked up a two minute penalty for tripping, sending Vancouver to another power play.
Just one addendum - in the last 10 minutes of the 3rd period.
That had to have been an awesome experience. I would give my left nut to be able to go for a ride in one of those.
I flew in a P51 Mustang once. THAT was cool!
“Obviously I would never bomb Ann Arbor. I have nothing against Michigan.”I'm glad that he added that.
Before that, I wasn't entirely sure...
That's a quote from the pilot.
Grudge is still on.
Ann Arbor was never in any danger. The F-22's flying high cover, would have taken him out long before he had started his bomb run.
Maybe he should focus on not taking penalties with 2 minutes left in the game.
Agreed, I hate Abdelkader more for his uselessness than his Spartyness. He takes dumb penalties and tried to be the "tough guy". More of a liability than an asset.
Better than having no one stick up for our players IMO.
While I don't like Abdelkader's Spartyness, which I blame for his taking dumb penalties - especially in the playoffs - I'd hardly call him useless. He has size (6'2", 215) and youth (24) that the Wings need, and he led the team in regular season hits (188, far ahead of Franzen's 2nd place 143) and tied Helm for the team's most playoff hits (28).
Hopefully his Red Wings experience will trump his Sparty asshattedness.
Come on 'folks. You know if Knuble or someone said the same thing about Spartan Stadium (or Ohio Stadium) we'd laugh and go nuts about it. Relax.
Yeah, but Knuble is good at hockey.
OK, let's replace with Jason Botterill.
Yeah but the pilot would be quoted as saying, "Knuble wanted me to act like I was bombing Spartan Stadium but I had never heard of it and had no idea where it was. Once he pointed it out, it appeared someone had already beaten me to it."
This is the funniest post I've read on this site in quite some time. I just laughed loud enough to disrupt the sleep of my almost 3 year old. An almost 3 year old that just recently told her Spartan alum grandfather that "They play football at Michigan. Really good." When asked "Well, what do they do at Michigan State, then?" To which she replied "Go potty-pot." I tell the story only to illustrate that the smart young lady deserves her sleep. And you potentially ruined it, Blundon. If I had authority, I'd tell you to go to the head of the class.
It's a big hole in the ground. What's a bomb supposed to do to it? Make the hole bigger? You drop a big enough bomb, we'll just call it a stadium expansion.
The Big House: now seating 350,000. No more chairbacks or suites though, just the rubble left from Crisler and Pioneer. Think that'll help the brand sell some more ND/OSU tickets?
Let's be fair. Having Crisler bombed and getting to start over with that arena would not exactly be the end of the world.
I'd love having a really class brick facade for the basketball arena connected off to the Big House.
Well at that point we could just buy a giant maize tarp and pull it over the rubble for basketball games. Having a dual purpose arena works for Syracuse, so why not? It would be the biggest basketball arena in the country, which would be nice to tell recruits.
I believe you mean triple purpose. Don't forget lacrosse.
Especially with the lax takeover of mgo in recent months. Being my senior year, I hope I can somehow get on the ground floor of a lax student section
I'll raise you one more. I'm sure the XC coaches could come up with a way to make a course out of it. First one to do twenty-five laps around the field and climb the remnants on the scoreboard wins.
Add hockey to the list of sports that could be played under the tarp.
Oh right. I just meant the Carrier Dome at Syracuse is triple purpose because they use it for lacrosse too. Carry on.
Dear Justin,
As a member of my second favorite sports team, I will pull for you despite your tendency to take idiotic penalties late in playoff games and your annoying spartiness.
Please don't push it.
Thank you.
He can say what he wants, but what is it, now? No Tournaments for MSU for a good number of years, and their last CCHA title was in 2001. Irrelevancy defined. Yeah.
Well, MSU did win the national title a few years back and he did score the game winner with 20 seconds left.
(Meant for VictorsValiant...sorry, gents).
I know, but I meant it in the sense that that's all he and Comley did. 2007 was basically anomalous, compared to the rest of his tenure. Most MSU people I know have readily admitted that title was a fluke.
It doesn't have any oil.
Abdelkader's just lucky the UAF polar bear wasn't patrolling the skies...
He should probably get a handle on that whole, "skate half my shift , then take a dumb ass penalty, especially if its the playoffs" thing before he can probably start making jokes about the football stadium that 80% (according to a survey i made up for this study) of his hockey team's fan base consider their Mecca. Whether it's taking an offensive zone penalty, which he seems to loooooove to do, or making jokes about bombing the big house, I'm not sold on old Abdelkader. Maybe they should have ran that airstrike mission before the Big Chill.
Funny article. Of course, with his scoring prowess, the bomb drops would probably miss the target anyway! ZING!
If they bombed the Big House with Abdelkader, that would have been awesome.
How could he hate the Big House so much? It's a football stadium, not like MSU hockey played there and got destr- OH WAIT HALOL
Q: What's the difference between a Sparty and a Michigan fan?
A: Nothing. They both notice when they're flying over Ann Arbor and don't care when they fly over East Lansing.
This raises some questions I’ve had since Michigan announced they will play a home game with Air Force on September 8, 2012 during the pre-game fly over should we:
- Cheer
- Boo
- Bo
- Doolittle
- Don’t ask don’t tell
- Consider it an act of war
- This time when someone yell’s “down in front” submit by ducking and covering
- Take comfort knowing during an air raid the safest place to be is in a hole in the ground
- Pray to God Air Force only bombs on the field
- Launch surface to air missiles
- Accept a no fly zone, but fight on with a ground war, under a cloud of dust
- Emulating the French surrender immediately, and raise their flag
- Sue for peace and pay 1.1 million dollars in war reparations