Grab Bag Of Random Posts

[ajaxusa]

Okay, I got another one...

Driving into the City (that's San Francisco for you rural peasants) one Friday night with my wife and two friends... Some guy pulls up next to us on the freeway, sticks his head out the window and starts shouting at us, shaking his fist, etc. I slow down, thinking he's insane and might pull a gun. He slows down to match our speed and keeps shouting. So I finally lower the passenger-side window, and he's yelling "Hup Ajax! Hup Ajax!"

My license plate at the time was HUP AJAX.

Whew.

[aveslacker]

I ran into a guy in Barstow, California a few years ago with an Ajax shirt on. I gave him a compliment on it and he smiled.

That was cool.

[martinkohout]

Driving into the City (that's San Francisco for you rural peasants)

I'm old enough to remember when the Golden State Warriors were the San Francisco Warriors, and wore the coolest jerseys in the history of the NBA : a cable car on the back, and on the front the silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge within a circle, with "The City" above it - no name, just "The City." If you have to ask....

http://www.raptorblog.com/images/sanfra ... rs-363.jpg

[ajaxusa]

I'm old enough to remember when the Golden State Warriors were the San Francisco Warriors, and wore the coolest jerseys in the history of the NBA : a cable car on the back, and on the front the silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge within a circle, with "The City" above it - no name, just "The City." If you have to ask....

That logo... "The City" with he bridge... has become super-hip and cool, but all the young hipsters probably don't know it tracks back to the SF Warriors.

[martinkohout]

That logo... "The City" with he bridge... has become super-hip and cool, but all the young hipsters probably don't know it tracks back to the SF Warriors.

Yeah, my oldest daughter lives in the Mission District, which is kind of hipster central, so I'm sure she sees a lot of it.

Are you in the Bay Area? For some reason I thought you were in L.A.....

[Orange14]

I'm old enough to remember when the Golden State Warriors were the San Francisco Warriors, and wore the coolest jerseys in the history of the NBA : a cable car on the back, and on the front the silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge within a circle, with "The City" above it - no name, just "The City." If you have to ask....

That logo... "The City" with he bridge... has become super-hip and cool, but all the young hipsters probably don't know it tracks back to the SF Warriors.

And Rick Barry was leading the league in scoring!!! They were super cool uniforms; certainly better than the Washington Bullets (a real bad choice of nicknames since we were the murder capital of the US for several years running).

[martinkohout]

And Rick Barry was leading the league in scoring!!! They were super cool uniforms; certainly better than the Washington Bullets (a real bad choice of nicknames since we were the murder capital of the US for several years running).

Yeah, but they were originally the Baltimore Bullets, which is at least alliterative. And the murder rate is why Abe Pollin changed their name to the Wizards, right?

[ajaxusa]

Yeah, but they were originally the Baltimore Bullets, which is at least alliterative. And the murder rate is why Abe Pollin changed their name to the Wizards, right?

Ah, Baltimore. The poor man's DC. IIRC, Baltimore had its own not-too-shabby murder rate as well... I'm in SF, and have been since 1994 when I relocated from LA, just after the World Cup. I moved to protest the most boring final ever, which was played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

[Orange14]

And Rick Barry was leading the league in scoring!!! They were super cool uniforms; certainly better than the Washington Bullets (a real bad choice of nicknames since we were the murder capital of the US for several years running).

Yeah, but they were originally the Baltimore Bullets, which is at least alliterative. And the murder rate is why Abe Pollin changed their name to the Wizards, right?

That was the reason it was changed. They then had a big debate about the choice of "Wizards" as some argued it had references to the Ku Klux Klan!

[aveslacker]

And Rick Barry was leading the league in scoring!!! They were super cool uniforms; certainly better than the Washington Bullets (a real bad choice of nicknames since we were the murder capital of the US for several years running).

Yeah, but they were originally the Baltimore Bullets, which is at least alliterative. And the murder rate is why Abe Pollin changed their name to the Wizards, right?

That was the reason it was changed. They then had a big debate about the choice of "Wizards" as some argued it had references to the Ku Klux Klan!

And yet Bullets is a much better name, imo. I mean, there are teams out there named after natural disasters (Avalanche, Earthquake, Hurricanes, Tornados) and animals (Tigers, Lions, Banana Slugs) that kill people too. And none of those names are as bad, imo, as the one the Washington NFL team currently has.

[Over Pasanens Head]

Great time had at the European Challenge Cup Final (the UEFA Cup of rugby) on Friday night at The Stoop, Twickenham. Great atmosphere generated by both sets of fans, especially the French fans from Bourgoin. There wasn't that many of them there but boy did they make a great racket.
Game was free flowing one that seemed to alternate between rugby and mass boxing. In the end Northampton Saints won by 15-3 and a knockout
Shame Bourgoin resorted to such thuggery at times as they seemed to be a really skillful outfit when they decided to run the ball.

Anyway what The Saints can do, surely Ajax can do in 2009/10 - win the UEFA Cup.

[Kowalczyk]

*LOL*

I really hate those annoying, prepared, rehearsed goal celebrations. And so does this referee...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/516111/ ... le_b3.html

Well done, ref. That'll teach 'em.

Oh, and how cool is this Bilbao fan...?

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/514651/ ... _pwnd.html

*LOL*

K.

[Blind3]

Too funny on both counts !! Thank you for posting the links !

[SE6Ajacied]

Anyone who already gets the same Google Alerts that I do will already have seen this so I won't post the whole link.

Suffice to say that I want to move to Longford in Warrington in Cheshire (UK). Great Address!!

"Pensioner rescued from flat fire at Ajax Avenue, Longford, Warrington"

[Philippe]

I would strongly recommend Ken Loach’s latest movie : « looking for Eric ».

[Manneken Pis]

Just a quick "Good Luck!" to the Dutch cricket team in the World Twenty20 tournament starting tomorrow....


Hup Holland Hup

[DanK]

Just a quick "Good Luck!" to the Dutch cricket team in the World Twenty20 tournament starting tomorrow....


Hup Holland Hup

Yeah Hup Holland! I think Eurosport 2 are showing some games.

The Australian Cricket team annoy me (except when we play and beat England), so happy for them to get an arse whipping here.

[Kowalczyk]

Celebrating a goal... Always dangerous...

This must be the stupidest, daftest injury ever...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/520511/ ... ssure.html

K.

[aveslacker]

Celebrating a goal... Always dangerous...

This must be the stupidest, daftest injury ever...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/520511/ ... ssure.html

K.

I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

[martinkohout]

Celebrating a goal... Always dangerous...

This must be the stupidest, daftest injury ever...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/520511/ ... ssure.html

K.

At least it was caused by contact with another human. A few years ago, an American football kicker (one of the Gramatica brothers, I believe) tore a knee ligament leaping into the air celebrating a field goal and missed the rest of the season.

[SE6Ajacied]

I would strongly recommend Ken Loach’s latest movie : « looking for Eric ».

Not seen this one (unlike Monsieur Cantona who was at the premiere this week) but I don't think Ken Loach has ever made a bad movie so good choice....

[SE6Ajacied]

On the theme of bizzare football injuries here's a whole team full

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8079277.stm

[Blind3]

Thankfully nobody was seriously injured. Can you say dangerously overloaded ?

[Mr_Holte]

Tomorrow see's England V Holland in the Cricket.

[Manneken Pis]

Tomorrow see's England V Holland in the Cricket.

Text commentary can be followed here for people without Sky:

http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/curre ... /live.html