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Nothing less than a grey cup…

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Posted by Teddy Points on December 2, 2009 –
Filed under A lifetime impression: Moments that marked my life, Football, Teddy Points of view...

Today was the official Grey Cup winning team’s parade right here in Montreal. Yes, the Alouettes became the second, Montreal based, Professional sports team to win their respective leagues championship. Many of you may wonder why I haven’t talk about The Alouettes at all this season even with Football being my favourite sport, my answer to that is… If you follow the CFL at all you’ll know that practically every year since like 2000, if not even before, actually almost every year since the team came back in the league in 96, they have been at the top of the league’s regular season standings; but has failed several times to actually win the championship. The team’s last grey cup win was in 02 but up until this past November 29th 2009 the team had lost in 4 Grey cup appearances (03, 05, 06, 08) gaining comparisons to the Buffalo Bills (NFL) who lost the Super Bowl in 4 straight years. With last years devastating lost right here in Montreal to the Calgary Stampeters in the Grey cup, I promised myself that I would not speak of the Alouettes until they WON a grey cup. (all while following their every step) It’s as if, every year, they had an outstanding regular season record (this year being 15 wins and 3 losses) but “choked” at the end, I felt like I was jinxing them by always putting them to win the Grey Cup and maybe, just maybe by not talking about them they’d win… well looks like I was right, therefore it’s because of me they won this year!! I joke, I joke.

With all that being said I could now talk about the Grey Cup win… Once the game started, I was feeling very nervous and rightfully so, the team started off the game exactly like every other Grey cup loss, falling behind early and not playing to their potential… Loosing 20 to 10 entering the 4th and final quarter, then being behind 27 to 10 it looked like it was all over, but the team’s leaders finally woke up and took over. With 10 seconds left to the game we were behind 27 to 25 and needed a few completions to get into field goal range, Calvillo, playing a brilliant 4th quarter, did what he needed to do and brought his team into Damon Duval’s field goal range. With only time for a kick to secure a well awaited Grey Cup win, Duval’s kick swirled wide right and Saskatchewan celebrated an “at the moment” win. But WAIT… there’s a flag on the field, THER A FLAG ON THE FIELD. The Roughriders are called for too many men on the field, we get a second chance to redeem ourselves and ACTUALLY kick the winning field goal. It’s good, IT’S GOOD!! WE WIN!! WE WIN!!

Notice the caps?!

That’s how I felt when the Alouettes won that game. Now, many may say that they would have preferred to see the Als win by a big margin like they had in the regular season but to me, I appreciated their comeback 1000% more, it showed me how resilient the team is and how never NEVER to give up. I give credit to the WHOLE team for fighting off the temptation to abandon their hopes of winning, trust me it’s not an easy thing to accomplish; only a solid and well coached team can do.  

So with the Monkey finally off Calvillo’s back and him stating a comeback next season lest espier to another championship in 2010!!

what a game!! 

  Sidebar: just 2 more things about the Als,

1: I’d like to personally congratulate Danny Desriveaux, Shawn Mayne and Luc Jourdain-Brodeur, 3 personal friends of mine, guys whom I played with, went to school with and also played against, 3 guys who are role models and whom I’m very proud of, I’d also like to congratulate Étienne Boulay whom I’m not as close with but know through a friend of mine… Étienne THANK YOU for that fumble recovery!!!!!!

 2: Ant his is not only towards the Als but, what’s up with everyone doing their Victory Parade in the middle of the week and in the middle of a work day??? Do you guys realize how many people have a day job and can’t make it there? It would be nice for us and also yourselves if you did it on a weekend where even MORE people can come out and celebrate…

A thin line between love and Hate…

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Posted by Teddy Points on November 25, 2009 –
Filed under In the Know, Teddy Points of view..., hockey

The Montreal Canadiens make some moves…

A few nights ago the Habs shocked their fans by trading their beloved Guillaume Latendresse, even those who have been hating on him are questioning the move. If you look at the trade with and expert’s eye, you can see all the reasons why it was made… The Habs traded Guillaume for the Minnesota Wild’s Benoit Pouliot a player drafted with the 4th pick overall in 05, the same year Latendresse was drafted with the 45th pick by Montreal. Both players have not lived up to the hype but Latendresse has played much Much more games then Benoit because he skipped the minor league process, thus his stat sheet is a little bit better. With all that being said, both these under achievers are up for contracts next season, the only thing is that because of Guillaume’s stat sheet being better he can ask for much more money then Benoit… something The Habs cannot afford. Depict as a VERY slow skater and, to me, sketchy puck handleling skillz, the upside is that Guillaume can resurrect his career elsewhere because here it was going nowhere. As for Benoit, who has yet to prove his worthiness of a 4th overall pick, is a mush more skilled skater and has a lot of upside, let’s just hope that he can also resurrect his career with the Habs… Another good thing is that Guillaume was love in Montreal for many reasons but one of them being that he was a local kid who spoke French, now Benoit is not a local kid (from Saint-Isidore Ontario… 30 minutes away from MTL) s also a French speaking guy therefore the Habs fans will embrace him quickly. Benoit has a chance to go from Zero to Hero in a matter of weeks.

 

Also…

 

With Big bro Andrei Kostytin looking like he’s back on track, Little Bro, Bad boy Sergei is back with “Le Grand Club”, after being sent down to the farm team for disciplinary reasons. In last night’s game, he showed why we are still giving him chances, he’s a great player with an attitude problem, let’s hope that Coach Martin can keep him in check because we can certainly use his skillz on the ice…

5 games?! Really though…

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Posted by Teddy Points on November 25, 2009 –
Filed under Teddy Points of view..., hockey, shake my head moment...

The NHL AGAIN disappoints me in their inconsistent ways of handle their business… We all have been seeing the vicious hits to the head that have been going on this year most of them going unpunished. It seems like the NHL hand picks players whom receive suspensions and those that don’t. Montreal Canadiens enforcer George Laraque Just receive a 5 game suspension and nearly $39 000 for… a knee to knee hit against Niklas Kronwall of the Detroit Red Wings the other night. Now I’m NOT saying the play was undeserving of a suspension but the NHL just handed him the biggest suspension of the year so far… While other players such as superstar Mike Richards don’t even get a 2 minute penalty for chopping down an opposing player it just seems unfair and useless. If the NHL wants to make an exemplary exhibition of a player they really SHOULD look at a superstar level player that commits a boo boo because only then will other players react…

That’s all I got to say…

in this video you see what George did (5 game suspension) and what another dude did (no suspension) you be the Judge…

 

C‘mon Lebron…

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Posted by Teddy Points on November 25, 2009 –
Filed under Teddy Points of view..., basketball, shake my head moment...

Last week, Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball star came out saying that The NFL’s Cleveland Browns team could use his help and that he could step in as a Tight End or Wide Receiver and be a star player for their franchise. Lebron… It’s not that easy and you’re making sooooooo much money as a Bballer, money that you would not even come close to making as a football player. I mean he has the physical attributes to be a football player but football is 50% physical and 50% mental if it were that easy any Joe Blow with his shape would be a star which is not the case… if I was a Cleveland Browner I’d be insulted and it looks like the were because for the first time this season, in a heart crushing loss to the Lions, the receiving squad of the Browns finally had their coming out party. Coach Mangini, who I think is a TERRIBLE coach, said that he would welcome Lebron anytime but Defensive all-star Shaun Rogers quickly stepped up and said that Lebron would not fair well as an NFL player. SMH head to you Lebron, start by winning an NBA championship before talking smack about an entirely different sports team…  

 great commercial BTW…

Handball…

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Posted by Teddy Points on November 24, 2009 –
Filed under Teddy Points of view..., soccer

I got a request to give my points on what happened in a very important soccer game last week.

I have a friend that played on Canada’s national handball team and he once told me that handball is a very important sport in France. With that being said… has France’s national soccer team’s captain now converted to playing handball?

With France’s hopes of advancing to the world soccer cup on the verge of disappearing, because the winner of the game between France and Ireland would advance and the looser out and the game being tied with minutes left, team captain Thierry Henri received a pass that was going out of bounds, quickly stopping the ball with his hand (an illegal move) dropping it down to serve a perfect kick pass to teammate William Gallas in front of the net, where Gallas put the ball behind the goalie for the winning score. Immediately the Irish goalie pleads his case to the referee who denied seeing the foul play. Many questions came up after this controversial play…

Are there enough referees on field during a soccer game?

I believe that you can’t leave the results of a game in the hands of a referee but having said that, a referee must do his job and can’t miss such a blatant play that crushes a whole countries dream…

The game was played in France, were the refs bought?

Wow that’s a big question… I don’t think the refs were bought and I truly believe that the ref didn’t see the play but obviously France is a much bigger soccer market and the world cup would not be the same without them… nough said…

 Should the game be replayed?

Well Fifa already answered that question by denying Ireland request for a rematch but again like I said, France is a much bigger market, back in 05 Brazil’s soccer league replayed 11 games due to finding out that many of their referees were paid to call games. So replaying a soccer game is something that has been done previously but Fifa definitely wants France in the World cup therefore refusing to have a rematch…

Is Thierry Henri a cheater?

Some may call his move cheating and dishonest but I call it genius, it’s a win win situation for him. You see, had he not made that move they would have loss the game and by doing so he had a chance to win, they did so who are we to say he’s a cheater that’s why we have refs. In sports I always say if the ref doesn’t call it, it’s not a foul plus after the game he said he was sorry for what had happened and would gladly replay the game if Fifa see’s fit, not to mention his marvelous acting skillz were he totally acted like the play never happened…

That’s my point… thanks for asking!

What’s yours…

 

No more 23…

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Posted by Teddy Points on November 19, 2009 –
Filed under Teddy Points of view..., basketball

King James a.k.a. Baby Jordan a.k.a. Lebron James is lobbying for the NBA to retire Michael Jordan’s #23 for the entire league. Not only is James ready to start a petition, he is also ready to give up his own jersey #23 to #6, the number he wore on the USA Olympic gold medal squad and in practices since the Olympics. It wouldn’t be the first time this a # would be retired to pay homage to a difference maker in a professional sport’s league. It started with the MLB back in 97 when they retired the ¸late-great Jackie Robinson’s number 42, only players wearing the # at that time were allowed to keep it, only 1 player is left wearing that number and that is the recent World Series Champion Mariano Rivera. The NHL followed suit shortly retiring “The Great One” Wayne Gretzky’s #99 in 2000, is it now time to do so for “His Airness”??? Only 9 Current players, including Lebron himself, would be affected with of course anyone else coming in the league. Out of those 13, you have Lebron who would switch his # to 6 and 3 others that are currently sponsored under the Jordan brand… I would be surprised if they didn’t change their numbers out of respect for their “boss”. How do I feel about that you ask… Well, for starters it would make the league a little more money because, at least in James’ case, fans would have to buy new jerseys as they did for Kobe when he changed his # to 24. To be honest, I agree with the whole thing simply because he was the greatest player ever… not to take anything away from all the other pioneers and star players, Jordan was relevant, is relevant and will ALWAYS be relevant to the game because he is the ONLY player to make himself an everlasting brand. Some people would even want to change the NBA logo that has the silhouette of former NBA player Jerry west since 1971 and switch that silhouette with the Jumpman Logo, but that to me would be a little much and I like the NBA logo as it is.

If the MLB and NHL can do it, the NBA can do it also and the only # I could imagine being retired is… 23

The league has left a statement saying that it would be unlikely that they retire the # for the entire league because, to them, that is a team’s choice and not the league’s choice to do. In that case I would lobby for all teams to individually retire the #. Then, they also said that they have a league policy that states players must wear the same # for at least 5 years (on the same team) before they can change it (as Kobe did), use the Jackie Robinson rule… so anything problems they come up with can be solved!

Let me know your thoughts…

 

Online petitions to retire #23 click HERE…

VS.

Online petition to change the NBA logo click HERE…

 

Greatest pound for pound…

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Posted by Teddy Points on November 18, 2009 –
Filed under Boxing, Teddy Points of view..., shake my head moment...

Boxer Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, On November 14th, straight up whooped Miguel Cotto’s buttocks… earning a 12th round TKO bringing is record to 51 win / 3 losses and 2 no contest.

Watch the whole fight…

 

 Now the world wants to know… forget pound for pound, who is the best boxer alive??? Many would side with Pacquiao and I would with the outspoken Floyd Mayweather whose record is … really I don’t really care who would win but this would be an amazing fight to watch, the type of fight to bring boxing back to mainstream. The money involved would be uncanny don’t even mention the fight over who would have the biggest burse… In my opinion this fight may never happen but if it does, I have to give the slight edge to Floyd just because in reality who has ever given Floyd a real fight? May Manny, I am very interested to see.

This is what Floyd had to say…

 

***Sidebar: I mentioned a beef between Floyd Mayweather and rapper Rick Ross previously, Well this is Floyd’s comeback…

Rick Ross’ family was invited to watch the Pacquiao / Cotto fight at Mayweather’s house, which they happily accepted, here is a Picture of Floyd, rapper 50cent (who also has a long-time beef with Rick Ross), Rick Ross’ estranged son and Baby Moma.

 LOL and SMH

Belichick makes the wrong call…

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Posted by Teddy Points on November 17, 2009 –
Filed under Football, Teddy Points of view...

I’m sure most of you saw the Sunday night football game with the undefeated Indianapolis Colts versus the New England Patriots… Well those who saw the game know that The Pats coach Bill Belichick made a gusty call with the game on the line, with the lead might I add, to go for a forth down conversion in their own territory. Lord and behold, the Pats come just shy of getting that crucial forth down, gave the ball up in their territory and watch the Colts march down on the short field, scoring the winning touchdown on a short pass from Payton Manning to Reggie Wayne with 10 seconds left. Many are saying that Coach Bill made the mistake of not punting the ball and giving the colts a long field giving them a more difficult time to aspire to win the game. Did Belichick, who is known for out coaching, out smarting, out working opposing team strategies and cut off hoodies, make a mistake by putting the game in Tom “terrific’s” hands?? I’m not sure, I’m still debating about this one because we all know that had they converted, they would have won and everyone today would be saying how smart Bill was for going for it. You can’t win em all and just to prove my point, back in 06, the Pats were faced with the same situation against the same Payton Manning’s  Colts, that time Bill chose to punt the ball… Payton got the ball with less then 2 minutes left to the game, drove 80 yards inside that time limit and won the game. Maybe Bill had that in the back of his mind…

 

***Sidebar: We are all talking about whether Belichick made the wrong call but really we need to be paying more attention to the Colts defence, the last two plays were made by Undrafted rookies playing in a big time moments against arguably the leagues most prolific offence! The Colts “D” that has been criticized for years has stepped up in the crunch! So Did Bill make the wrong call or did the Colts defence step up to the plate… Let me know what you think.

Singer Chris Brown has a long lost brother…

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Posted by Teddy Points on November 5, 2009 –
Filed under Teddy Points of view..., basketball

So I’m watching MY Lakers play the other day and i’m watching Shannon Brown make a nice play, I see a close up…

and I’m like… 

Is it just me or does the L.A. Lakers guard Shannon Brown look exactly like signer Chris Brown? And they have the same last name, are they long lost brothers? are they related?

you be the judge….

 

Shannon Brown…

 

Chris Brown…

Legal or not…

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Posted by Teddy Points on October 26, 2009 –
Filed under Teddy Points of view..., hockey

Hockey is a violent sport at times and it seems like every now and then there is an incident that happens that got people saying cheap shot or not… On Saturday, while I was watching the Habs beat the NY Rangers, a particular hit came up during the highlights of the other games. The incident involving Mike Richards hit of the Philly Flyers on David Booth of the Florida Panthers is a prime example of the thin line between a good solid clean hit and a dirty foul play hit. I personally, after reviewing the hit several times, think it was a clean hit. Unfortunately, it looks like Richards almost killed booth on the play, even when seeing it in slow motion, Booth had just delivered a pass when Richards, wanting to hit him before the pass went off, didn’t have the time to avoid the hit. When the hit first occurred, a buddy of mine (who was watching the game with me) thought because Richards dropped his shoulder a bit, that it was a dirty hit but in my opinion, the game is so fast and when your about to hit someone your natural reflexes are to protect yourself and that is the reason why he dropped his shoulder. Hockey players do at times cross the line when it comes to hitting other players on the ice but again to me that one was a clean hit. After reviewing the play, the league decided not to give any suspensions to Mike Richards but that makes me wonder if the league is a little prejudice when it comes to players that have no history of violence… What I mean is, if Donald Brashear hit Booth the exact same way Mike did, because Donald is considered as a brawler, I’m 99 % sure he would have been suspended as he was on a similar hit in last years playoffs.

I have 2 questions for you… 1: was Mike Richards hit legal? 2: is there a double standard for star players and brawler type players?

see for yourslef…

 

Now remember, Mike was not suspended but in this next video, Brachear was…