Things you can't believe used to be allowed/exist

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Hockey Fan #751

It's not mentioned much, but did you know that in an effort to make the game more marketable, the NHL made helmets optional for forwards and defencemen in 1992-93? I believe the only player who took them up on that was Brett Hull in an all-star game.



http://www.rauzulusstreet.com/hockey.../nhlrules.html

An odd factoid that is forever burned in my memory is the last 5 guys to play in the NHL without a helmet. Probably because they all played for quite a while that way
- Craig Mactavish
- Rod Langway
- Brad Marsh
- Doug Wilson
- Randy Carlyle

I think that's the list. MacT was the last one. 4/5 were dmen for pete's sake - just standing there as guys wizzed shots past their ears. Unreal.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

An odd factoid that is forever burned in my memory is the last 5 guys to play in the NHL without a helmet. Probably because they all played for quite a while that way
- Craig Mactavish
- Rod Langway
- Brad Marsh
- Doug Wilson
- Randy Carlyle

I didn't know this, but this explains his transparent anti-helmet agenda.

Originally Posted by Randy Carlyle

I have a theory on concussions. I think the reason there’s so much more of them obviously the impact and the size of the equipment and the size of the player—but there’s another factor: Everyone wears helmets, and under your skull when you have a helmet on, there’s a heat issue. Everyone sweats a lot more, the brain swells. The brain is closer to the skull. Think about it.

[Senator Clay Davis]

The XFL.

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

I didn't know this, but this explains his transparent anti-helmet agenda.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy Carlyle
I have a theory on concussions. I think the reason there’s so much more of them obviously the impact and the size of the equipment and the size of the player—but there’s another factor: Everyone wears helmets, and under your skull when you have a helmet on, there’s a heat issue. Everyone sweats a lot more, the brain swells. The brain is closer to the skull. Think about it.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Bunk

I miss the old tire swings with the three chains hanging from the wood frame. We used to do "earthquakes", where two would sit and one guy would stand and "pump" the swing to get it going. The standing up guy would pull the two chains at the top of the swing making the tire go vertical, and the tire would slam down at the bottom. It was extremely painful to be the ones sitting. About 10% of the time you might fall off. One time the best "earthquake" guy was going when I was sitting, and the whole thing came crashing down. The connector to the wood frame broke and we all hit the ground hard. This was about 1992.

After that the school took it down, and I think in fact this was the beginning of the end for these across the whole system.

They still have the tire swings at some playgrounds. My kids love them.

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Looks pretty shady to me.

It's east facing. Would get the sun all morning/early afternoon.
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Pop...!4d-123.952706

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

It's east facing. Would get the sun all morning/early afternoon.
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Pop...!4d-123.952706

I meant shady like sketchy because in the sun that would be an ass burner for sure. But also because it was literally shady. Hence my yeaaaah csi image. I'll see myself out now.

[InglewoodFan]

When I was young (< 10 years old) my dad worked as a radiographer, x-raying pipes and pressure welds for quality checking. He always worked at night, when the welders weren't working, because radiation. Had a radioactive source in a lead box that lived in a mobile darkroom on the back of his pickup. Parked in front of our house.

The best part was, when my mom was busy working her own night job I would go to work with dad. Sometimes I would even climb into steel vessels to tape film up. 10 year old kid, wandering around a fabrication shop at night. WCB and OHS would have an aneurysm these days.

In my early teens my dad was manager of a fabrication shop. I would hang around on weekends while he did paperwork. Riding around on the gantry crane was a favourite, one foot in the hook and hanging on to the cable with one hand while running the controls with the other.

I can't even imagine pulling stuff like that with my kids.

[sketchyt]

I've met seniors whose grandparents were allowed to be owned. It blows my mind how the practice of slavery in first world nations ended not that long ago.

[habernac]

Instead of burning our skin on that huge slide, we would have ridden our bikes down them and launched off the ends.

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay

Alberta didn't have a seatbelt law til 1987

I remember taking trips to BC and being annoyed that we had to buckle our seatbelts when we crossed the Alberta/BC border.

Oh how things have changed...

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Bunk

This article on "The overprotected Kid" is a must read:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...-alone/358631/

This image from it is pure gold:

The fascinating thing is that adults who had and enjoyed much more freedom themselves just can't bring themselves to let their own kids out of their sight, even when they acknowledge the world is not more dangerous today. There are obviously some deep, deep anxieties at work.

[flamesfan1297]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

I didn't know this, but this explains his transparent anti-helmet agenda.

Originally Posted by Randy Carlyle
I have a theory on concussions. I think the reason there’s so much more of them obviously the impact and the size of the equipment and the size of the player—but there’s another factor: Everyone wears helmets, and under your skull when you have a helmet on, there’s a heat issue. Everyone sweats a lot more, the brain swells. The brain is closer to the skull. Think about it.
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Umm this doesn't make much sense? Sounds like Randy maybe should have wore a helmet

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Hockey Fan #751

It's not mentioned much, but did you know that in an effort to make the game more marketable, the NHL made helmets optional for forwards and defencemen in 1992-93? I believe the only player who took them up on that was Brett Hull in an all-star game.

Hull did it for an All-Star game, but Greg Smyth of the Flames did it in a few actual games. I don't think he made it more than a few games before he decided to put a helmet back on.

[La Flames Fan]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Beddington

I was so convinced we invented that game. Until today.

Everything is a lie.

[Weitz]

Yah it was alive and well in Red Deer haha

[ben voyonsdonc]

Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

Oh my god what school did you go to?

I lived in Newfoundland and played that game too. We called it Red Ass as well.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

A game that it seems like all kids played growing up - was throwing a ball against a wall and if you dropped it trying to catch it off the wall, you had to go to the wall with your bottom facing the other players and the one that threw the ball you dropped would whip it at your bum.

We called it bum's up, but from what I understand it had a different name at every school/community.

Loved this game. The best part was the race to the wall.

Kids running as fast as they can straight at a brick wall, what could go wrong?

FTR, we called it any or all of Wall Ball, Red Ass or Bums Up.

[La Flames Fan]

Originally Posted by Weitz

Yah it was alive and well in Red Deer haha

Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc

I lived in Newfoundland and played that game too. We called it Red Ass as well.

Well I'll be damned.

[MoneyGuy]

Kids played with mercury when i was a child.