03-05-2009, 03:43 PM
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#21
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by pepper24
I am sure the owners have a new location in place. The place is money making machine especially during Stampede time.
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You'd think so, but they are where they are (in place of Coyotes) because they weren't allowed in the old Office Depot building.
Cowboy's is going to want to stay downtown, what other locations are around that they could fit into?
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03-05-2009, 03:48 PM
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#22
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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I think when Cowboys moved, the owner stated at the time that this was not a permanent location. So he must have had an idea this was coming.
I actually ended up there the night before my wedding last July. Fun times!
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03-05-2009, 03:50 PM
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#23
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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I'm sure they're cashing in nicely by getting bought out by the city again too. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they moved there knowing that it had buyout potential in the near future.
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03-05-2009, 03:57 PM
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#24
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I'm sure they're cashing in nicely by getting bought out by the city again too. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they moved there knowing that it had buyout potential in the near future.
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Cowboys isn't getting bought out, the article says the land has been bought and Cowboy's lease is expiring.
So either
a) Someone owsn the land/buidling and they are going to make out like bandits, and Vickers is SOL for the location
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b) The city owns the land and leased it to Vickers who owns the building. In which case he MIGHT get paid for the building, but he won't make out like a bandit as he would if he owned the land.
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03-05-2009, 03:58 PM
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#25
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HOOT
Well when Cowboys comes up at CP it's pretty easy to pick out the fellows that were picked on during high school.
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Hell yeah.
On the plus side, I'm educated, successful, happy, and engaged to a beautiful equally successful woman.
Nerds own the world. ######bags own lots of hats.
...and probably herpes and/or the clap.
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Settle down there, Temple Grandin.
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03-05-2009, 04:00 PM
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#26
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Hell yeah.
On the plus side, I'm educated, successful, happy, and engaged to a beautiful equally successful woman.
Nerds own the world. ######bags own lots of hats.
...and probably herpes and/or the clap.
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*begins slow clap
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03-05-2009, 04:04 PM
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#27
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pepper24
The place is money making machine especially during Stampede time.
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Or as I like to call it, a shallowness tax. 
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03-05-2009, 04:06 PM
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#28
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If you find yourself missing it, I have a side business, for 5 bucks I'll beat your face in with a toilet seat, for 10 I'll throw a lit cigarette in your eye.
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That's a deal anyway you slice it.
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03-05-2009, 04:07 PM
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#29
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Marshmallow Maiden
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by ken0042
I don't understand this line of thinking. If you don't like it, then don't go.
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LOL I was just joking around, hence the smilie face.
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03-05-2009, 04:17 PM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HOOT
Well when Cowboys comes up at CP it's pretty easy to pick out the fellows that were picked on during high school.
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I don't get the flap on CP when Cowboys is brought up either. Must be jealousy or something. I've always thought that it's a good business model for a successful nightclub.
Personally, I've outgrown the place as I am late 20's with a wife and kid but didn't mind the place back in my university days. Beer, music, women and fun.
I am also probably a bit biased because that is where I met my wife who used to work there. 
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03-05-2009, 04:18 PM
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#31
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2006
Location: @HOOT250
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Hell yeah.
On the plus side, I'm educated, successful, happy, and engaged to a beautiful equally successful woman.
Nerds own the world. ######bags own lots of hats.
...and probably herpes and/or the clap.
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Wow. Well said...guess now you can be the bully. Congrats on doing exactly what upset you back them.
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Originally Posted by henriksedin33
Not at all, as I've said, I would rather start with LA over any of the other WC playoff teams. Bunch of underachievers who look good on paper but don't even deserve to be in the playoffs.
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03-05-2009, 04:38 PM
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#32
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: still in edmonton
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I confess that I'm almost 23 and have never been to Cowboys. Of course that's probably because I've spent my bar star days not in Calgary.
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03-05-2009, 04:44 PM
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#33
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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Hey now, it's not like I'm picking fights with random people on the internet or anything.
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Settle down there, Temple Grandin.
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03-05-2009, 09:07 PM
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#34
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In the Sin Bin
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Section 202 IGGY 2 SID GOLD!
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ahhh poor Vickers what a parasite.
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03-05-2009, 09:33 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Locked in the Trunk of a Car
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seriously music to my ears. and 10 to 1 he doesn't have a new location yet. Getting approval for a large venue, well he will have to locate outside of downtown.
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03-05-2009, 09:53 PM
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#36
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Lifetime Suspension
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i wouldnt be surprised if the fix was in anyhow ... Vickers is a politically connected individual and whether you like his operations or not, a shrewd businessman. you dont think he didnt know the land was earmarked for the EV development already?
he probably owns the compmany that owns the land that was appropriated by the city and is getting compensated for his troubles through the back door. i dont doubt for a moment he was already scoping out his new loction before the ink was dry on this one.
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03-05-2009, 10:26 PM
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#37
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by csnarpy
seriously music to my ears. and 10 to 1 he doesn't have a new location yet. Getting approval for a large venue, well he will have to locate outside of downtown.
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If he can find some land owner to sell and put something up along the CP rail line... that would seem to make sense to me.
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03-05-2009, 10:37 PM
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#38
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
Isn't it common knowledge that vickers washes money for the hells angels? I have heard that rumour from a million people.
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Just like how Impark is secretly a way to launder money from drug dealers and the Hells Angels?
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03-05-2009, 10:40 PM
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#39
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
and that riders fans use their team as an excuse to get into fights and get "blackout" drunk.
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That one is most certainly true. Although I know better than to fight when I'm blacked. In fact I'm a rather non violent fan. I usually go for the "let's all get along, but the Stamps suck".
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03-05-2009, 11:14 PM
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#40
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
I still find it funny that anytime someone mentions Cowboys here, it almost always ends with everyone making fun of it, but whenever I mention wanting to head out to Calgary, it's usually the first place people tell me to go.
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That is in part because in reality, the nightlife in Calgary is lame, so little options, one should not come to Calgary for a club/party atmosphere, because you will be sorely dissapointed. There are not many clubs left anymore and has for the most part turned into a lounge type city. They did very good advertising and marketing upon opening and capitalized in the old location.
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