The last couple of days have been good ones for me. I have been able to see the Avs play twice, watched them practice several times, witnessed Jeff 'Give 'em the' Finger play again in the NHL, and met Joe Sakic. Not bad. But wait, there is more. Cory and I were talking about our job and how cool it is. I was dubbing a copy of the old Green Bay Gamblers video to DVD when Tony Granato saw it. He said he was at the national championship game. I remembered that and told him that WGBA was supposed to send someone to that game and when I heard that he was there I was pissed that I could have gone and gotten his autograph. I thought it would have been my only chance to ever meet him. Now here I am bullshitting with him and talking shop. Weird how things work out.
I also remembered the time I drove to Eagle River Wisconsin on the 4th of July to see Craig Ludwig bring the Stanley Cup home. It was a long ass drive just to see the cup, but I wanted to do it because I thought I would never get the chance to see it again. Well, I have seen it about a hundred times since I moved to Edmonton. Crazy.At one point during the day, and this is a crazy story, I was walking down the hall in front of the visitors locker room and Tony was talking with a equipment dude from the Avalanche. I over heard him say, "You don't know who that is?" At this point I immediately looked around to see what celebrity was at the rink, because that is often the case. Then he said, "That's Sign Boy. He's from Green Bay." How weird is that? I think it should be the other way around, me telling someone else 'that is Tony Granato.' This is getting weird.
So later in the day, we had a one on one scheduled. The Nashville Predators are in town also for the Saturday Night game. We had to rush over to the Westin to do this interview in the afternoon. Guess who? Peter freaking Forsberg. Cool huh?
He was very cool and it was neat to do this one because he,
again a former Avalanche, was one of my favorite from back during the Stanley Cup runs. He killed Preacher's Red Wings. That was awesome. The dude is on a stamp in Sweden. Killer. So it was turning out to be a pretty killer day for this Avalanche fan.
Then after the game as Joe Sakic was walking out Cory wanted to get a pic, and we generally work together on these things, so we got a killer pick with the Captain. Joe Sakic is by far my favorite Canadian player in the NHL. It was cool to get a pic with him and this one is going on the wall, eventually. The flash was off on camera but it still turned out okay.The Avalanche lost in a shoot out but it was all good at the rink this week. The last home game of the season is tonight so it will be time to shift gears to CFL football here soon. Training camp is right around the corner.
Speaking of CFL, the equipment guy for the Eskimos, Dwayne, knows that I am big Packer fan. He knows Red the equipment guy for the Packers. Long story short, I now have an autographed game ball from Number 4 in my TV room. How awesome is that? Marty Frey, of the Burbank Frey's, wrote me this note after told him that I got the ball...
That is coolness... I imagine it will be enshrined in the most honored manner that you can afford... in other words - stuffed on the top of a
shelf in your basement by the TV.Marty
You know me too well Marty, way to well...
Nordic Man, of the Gillet Nordic People, was the first to respond to the Podcast contest so he will be getting a signed Jeff Finger scoresheet in the mail. I still have a few left so if you want one, bust me off an email and I will hook you up. Cool? Cool.
Have a good weekend...
