BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Old time hockey


The NHL Oldtimers along with the fictional yet legendary Hanson Brothers of the Charlestown Chiefs (from the Paul Newman movie Slapshot) played the Leamington (Ontario, Canada) Police hockey team in an exhibition match on February 10, 2010. Those not familiar with the Hanson Brothers is that they are very much like Clark Kent -- they are not what they seem. They are weapons of mass destruction whose sole purpose is to pick fights on the ice. But out of the movie they joined the NHL Oldtimers looking exactly like they did way back in the late 1970s when Slapshot first came out and they can still skate and fight. Plus they wore their Chiefs jerseys! Wooo! The Oldtimers won 12-4. Thanks to In Play for letting me know about this.

Posted by Rick Olivares

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