Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaskal
EDIT - Oops, I thought you were talking about G6 in 2004!
I watched this game with a few friends and I remember it was the birth of the very first (but as a one-and-done) playoff superstition.
Down 4-0 early, some had started to lose interest and so we started a dumb kids contest to see who could hold onto this vertical support beam the longest without sliding to the bottom and touching the floor. Once we started taking serious tries at it, like the first 1min attempt, the Flames scored their first goal.
So naturally we redoubled our efforts. 4-2.
Us kids were starting to believe. Shirtless attempts were being made now with one person on towel duty wiping the sweat off. 4-3.
At this point the lengths we'd go to in order to hold onto that support beam as long as possible became utterly ridiculous. One guy went down to his boxers and wrapped all four limbs around the beam and hung on for dear life with an agonized look on his face the whole time.
4-4, tie game!
Everyone was on board now and kept enthusiastically trying to set personal bests, but we all just got too exhausted past double OT and gave up for the 3rd OT. Guess we should have kept trying, haha
|
for some reason that story made me chuckle! Good times