Archive for October 10th, 2009
It’s hockey season and for me it doesn’t get any better. A quicker, faster and harder hitting game you will not find. For those of you that are not fmiliar with hockey, it is a sport that competes for the oldest trophy in all of sports, the Stanley Cup. This award was contributed by Canadian governer-general Lord Stanley of Preston who purchased a silver bowl for $50 in 1893. Origionally the cup measured 7 1/2″ high and 11 1/2″ across and as time has gone by the NHL has added rings to it with the names of the players from the team that won it engraved on it. The cup presently is 35 1/4″ tall and 18″ across and now weighs 32lbs.
Last years opening night on Oct. 9, 2008, Def Leppard performed at Detroit’s Fox Theatre prior to the Stanley Cup winning Detroit Red Wings home opener. They performed songs such as “C’Mon C’Mon, Nine Lives,Pour Some Sugar On Me and others. This was a night the band would like to forget, not only were the guitars off and vocals badley out of tune, but sometime during the performance lead singer Joe Elliot paraded around the stage with the Stanley Cup raised above his head only to put it on the pedestal upside down for a most embarassing moment.