Can someone explain to this poor Motor City transplant what on earth an octopus has to do with the Red Wings. Why do fans throw them on the ice? It makes no sense. We are not the Detroit Octopi!
Signed,
Confused in Detroit
Seriously, this video is pretty much the ideal response to the whole thing. McCain’s campaign ought to be embarrassed, and the rest of us can laugh at both his campaign and Paris’s response.
(of course it is Paris Hilton, and she gets the details of the energy policy wrong… drilling wouldn’t carry us over because it would take 5-10 years before any of that oil actually entered the market)
Can someone explain to this poor Motor City transplant what on earth an octopus has to do with the Red Wings. Why do fans throw them on the ice? It makes no sense. We are not the Detroit Octopi!
Signed,
Confused in Detroit
April 26th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
http://www.detroitredwings.com/history/octopus.jsp
April 26th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Another favorite story: the Florida Rat.
http://www.darsys.com/panth/pfaq.html#rat
Scott Mellanby was a good Flyer, and a great Panther.
Just last year, I was getting dressed for a game at Chelsea Piers when I heard a shocked yell. A guy came charging out of the office with a hockey stick, stopped, and fired a mouse across the room.
April 27th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Sujal, you are no fun!
Looking it up is just so logical.
April 27th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
I am nothing if not logical. (Hmmm… Heidi might claim that I’m nothing, though…)