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10-05-2011, 04:28 AM #21
I guess I should tell my own story.
At the healthy young age of 4 years old, I knew and loved 3 things: candy, The Price is Right, and the Boston Bruins. Among all things, there was one player that I admired above all, and that player was Cam Neely. At this time, Neely was playing his final season, and IIRC, it was late March. A short, 20-minute train ride from my house was the Boston Bruins' practice facility, a place that I had been to many times before and watched them practice. After this particular practice was over, I chased after and snapped photos with a few people; Don Sweeney, Ray Bourque, and Adam Oates, but there was no sign of my favorite guy. This was due to the crowd around him and not so much the others. By the time I got around to Neely, he was actually in his truck, with the engine running. So I knocked on the door. And waved the camera. "lol pic plz im 4 yez owd."
After practice, during the playoff hunt, Neely turns off his engine, gets out of his truck, and poses (albeit reluctantly) for the picture:
Which, obviously, he later signed at a Bruins' Wives' Charity Carnival event. And just like Ricky Bobby, I don't know what to do with my hands.
To be honest, I don't remember too much about this event. Nor do I know why my little arms were so fat. But I do know that Cam Neely made this kid's day many years ago.
And really, more players should be like Cam.
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10-05-2011, 11:22 AM #22
I have to say that this is one of the nicest story's I have ever heard and it is even more special because it is supported by a picture , and i disagree with the part that says more players should be like Cam , because i think every single player , superstar or forth liner should be like Cam because they were not born super stars ((well except of wayne gretzky )) little kids that grow up to be young men and women who work hard to pay for the tickets that make them super stars and for that they should take the time to make that kids day wether he felt like it or not .
I guess I should tell my own story.
At the healthy young age of 4 years old, I knew and loved 3 things: candy, The Price is Right, and the Boston Bruins. Among all things, there was one player that I admired above all, and that player was Cam Neely. At this time, Neely was playing his final season, and IIRC, it was late March. A short, 20-minute train ride from my house was the Boston Bruins' practice facility, a place that I had been to many times before and watched them practice. After this particular practice was over, I chased after and snapped photos with a few people; Don Sweeney, Ray Bourque, and Adam Oates, but there was no sign of my favorite guy. This was due to the crowd around him and not so much the others. By the time I got around to Neely, he was actually in his truck, with the engine running. So I knocked on the door. And waved the camera. "lol pic plz im 4 yez owd."
After practice, during the playoff hunt, Neely turns off his engine, gets out of his truck, and poses (albeit reluctantly) for the picture:
Which, obviously, he later signed at a Bruins' Wives' Charity Carnival event. And just like Ricky Bobby, I don't know what to do with my hands.
To be honest, I don't remember too much about this event. Nor do I know why my little arms were so fat. But I do know that Cam Neely made this kid's day many years ago.
And really, more players should be like Cam.
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10-05-2011, 11:26 AM #23
no i have heard story's about him since he was in Juniors , i even heard that when had signing sessions he did not like it when a kid approached his table because that kid might have slipped in without paying the fee
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10-05-2011, 03:35 PM #24
In that case I hope that somebody kicks his ™™™™™ big time.
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10-07-2011, 07:40 PM #25
Ill share a happy story :D Before tho i am going to take the time to weigh in on the heatley thing.When he played as a sen i was at a game (id say i was 11-12 ) and the sens all came in after practice i had a jersey dangleing over with a sharpie all of them walked by like i wasnt there except for two. Brian Mcgraton and Mr Heatley him self they both stoped and signed. So even threw all the drama of him leaving and his accident i still fave a little respect for him... On too the real story. I went to the sens skill competiton this past season and after the game managed to get a spot along the glass to ask my favorite player (Mr Nick Foligno) for a stick. So nick finally comes off i ask him to stop he does and i tell him how ive been a huge fan since his first season and loved watching him play.So i noticed he was using the brand new at the time total one so figured there was no chance but may aswell ask. So i do he shakes my hand which was threw the glass and say he needs to keep them. So i told him i understood and wished him the best and just as he was about to leave he had a change of heart and slipped me threw the glass one of his sticks. At the time i was debating not collecting him any more as his cards were getting expensive. As soon as he did that i knew there was no one id rather collect as he was the most down to earth person ever and that is why nick will ALWAYS be my favorite player.Heres a picture of the stick
Last edited by folignofan71; 10-07-2011 at 07:44 PM. Reason: spelling mistake
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12-16-2011, 12:56 PM #26
that is awesome stick congrats , and i have heard that Foligno is good with the fans
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12-17-2011, 08:21 AM #27
Cam Neely is an awesome guy! I am not sure but if you guys recall the day he got benched when he was playing for the Bruins for the 3rd period while Steve Kasper was coach, despite this he not only took the time to do all interview requests, but he also stayed around to sign a bunch of autographs. Class act ALL THE WAY.
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12-17-2011, 01:05 PM #28
I think I posted this last year or earlier.
In the early to mid 60's we would save our beer bottle money and pop bottle money, we would comb the ditches between Moose Jaw and Regina looking for the 10 cent Gold.
We would then hustle down to Carr's Confectionery, or over to Chew Wong's Confectionery and slap down our 5 cents (or several more nickels) for a pack of Topps Cards, then OPC in 1969. The craze for about 15 years was to find a great NHLer in one of your card packs, along with the dusty pink bubble gum. You then take the good player and take a clothes-pin, and clip the card to the spokes of your bike wheel so that it could make the clicking sound like you had an engine. A card only lasted about a week at the most in your spokes before it required changing out.
I have personally put over 500K worth of Howe, Orr, Sawchuk, Maurice Richard, Bobby Hull cards, and every other conceivable Hall Of Famer that played from 1960-1970 thru the spokes of my bike.
Now my next door neighbor at the time would also do this, but he was also a Pack-Rat and would throw nothing out. One day when we were about 22 and talking in the bar with other lads about the cards and the bike spokes, he says, "I think I still have a ton of Hockey and Baseball cards in my Mom's basement", let's go over to her house and take a look.
Well we found at least 200 cards of the Following:
1966 Bobby Orr Rookies - 6 of them
1. Black Jiffy Marker Beard (Sharpie for you Americans) 2 cards
2. Black Jiffy Marker Moustache and Beard (Goatee) on 2 more
3. Last 2 Orrs had about 200 creases from bike spokes and good player written on the back of the cards in Jiffy Marker
At least 20 Gordie Howe combos of both Topps and Parkhurst with either "Good Player" written in Black Jiffy Marker, or we would put stitches on the player's face like Gerry Cheevers mask if the player was a tough guy like Gordie was.
At least 40 other Hall of Famers who's cards were defaced with marker or half torn to shreds from Bike Spokes.
We also found 8 Reggie Jackson Rookies with Jiffy Marker tattoos and combinations of Beard and Moustache.
All we could do was laugh, after all 15 years earlier my Mother had thrown out over 3,000 MLB cards from 1922-1959 that my Dad and I had found in one of his rental house walls between the wallboards and the interior walls of one of the porches. Those cards were all Excellent Condition to Nrmt.
I priced them out, what I remember based on year 2000 BV's and came to a figure of 1.8 million dollars. Lou Gehrigs, Babe Ruths - at least 200, 20-25 Dimaggio Rookie cards. etc.
Alas, all one can do is shrug your shoulders and have a good laugh.Last edited by centrehice; 12-17-2011 at 01:07 PM.
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12-17-2011, 08:39 PM #29MUST SEND FIRST
Disgusting individuals
I agree...
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12-17-2011, 10:06 PM #30
I have a sad story about baseball cards.
My grandpa had a pile of T-206 in really good shape, maybe 200 or so. Not sure which players but they were basically the condition they were in when they came from the pack. he said his dad had them and gave them to him in the fifties. Well my grandpa died, and his live in girlfreind invited everyone over to claim his belongings. I hunted for the cards and when I couldnt find them I asked her about them. She said she had thrown them out because she thought they were useless. So, somewhere in the dump in London Ontario, there sits roughly 200 mint T-206 baseball cards. Anyone want to go hunting? I couldnt tell you if there was a Wagner, but if there was its gone!
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Originally Posted by Johnny Appleseed 
