![]() ![]() Oh and as an aside, I would imagine it won’t be long until you can buy merchandise with the logo on it and that’s no small part of the entire endeavour. It’ll be glitzy and glamourous and full of all kinds of promise for the event, which will consume attention for three or four days. They’ll have the official unveiling of the Toronto all-star 2016 logo tomorrow, the first of many steps of hype leading up to the big week. As I recall – and the mind is fuzzy – Mother’s had a somewhat thin crust and was only marginally better than red cardboard. They don’t still exist, do they? I guess they were the forbearers of all the various chains that are out there now, all purporting to serve real pizza. ![]() ![]() They had those little plastic numbered things that showed which of the delicacies you were waiting for and as you walked the line, you picked out the various sides and toppings. Remember this one? A cafeteria-style steakhouse?Īnd you haven’t eaten ‘til you’ve had paper-thin steak that you basically served yourself. Not sure how widespread it was but there was one in Niagara Falls, on Drummond Road if I remember correctly, and the sauce was on the sweet side but I quite liked it. I couldn’t come up with a Top Five list of Defunct Food Chains Of Our Youth because we had a Red Barn mention at the end of last week but here are three that might jog a memory or two. The criteria for a Flagrant 2 is “unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent” and surely what Howard did was that. Now, the original ruling of a Flagrant 1 caught me by surprise. Not Howard, not when he needlessly delivered this shot to Bogut early in last night’s game. I get that there are moments of unspeakable intensity in a sports playoff game and trying to maintain composure is more difficult than you or I can imagine but it’s a must and, usually, something the top athletes can do. I would be virtually certain that the NBA will look at his elbow to the face of Andrew Bogut in last night’s Rockets-Warriors game, upgrade it from a Flagrant 1 to a Flagrant 2 which will mean Howard will have accumulated enough flagrant foul “points” in the current playoffs that he will face a mandatory one-game suspension that will keep him out of Game 5 tomorrow night in Oakland. We cringe when they over-react, when they do something colossally wrong it’s laughable, when they commit some indiscretion that puts their team or season at risk and, yeah, we’re looking at you Dwight Howard. We want the best athletes we watch and cheer for to be composed, to handle “the moments” well, to rise above the pressure and stress and perform at their best when it most counts. ![]()
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