Fight On!

Ladies and Gentlemen our long National Nightmare is at an end (namely no sports but the Pirates since June) .

Welcome to the promised land that we call football season!
12:00 PSU vs. Some Joke
JoPa will tie that Scoundrel Coach of the Criminoles with 373 wins today

Good Luck DC


peace out yo

Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Robert Kennedy University of Capetown, South Africa June 6, 1966


It's funny how true that still is.

Proudfoot Classics: Mocked By Wendell Young!

It's the end of August, nothing happens at the end of August. It sees to me that everyone on the internet is just mailing it in for a week or two and I'm not about to be the exception. Here's a little nugget of joy from March of 2005



So I went down to the Civic aka Mellon Arena on Tuesday to watch The Penguins Cup, the high school hockey championship. There was a rumor that some of the old Penguins would be there signing autographs so I brought a few pucks along with the hope of getting them singed by Ken Wregget or my favorite former crackhead Kevin Stevens. Well I guess most of the big names stayed home because all the star power the pens could muster for this little shindig was Peter Taglinetti and Wendell Young. Now for those of you who are a little hazy about the Penguins roster from over a decade ago Wendell Young was a backup/ third string goaltender on the Stanley Cup teams. He even played a few games on one of the many occasions when Borasso was injured. Well anyway, I guess Wendell had the night off from Burger King so Mario paid him a few bucks to sit at a table and sign Xeroxed photos of himself for people who didn't know who the hell he was. Being the complete dork I am, I did know who the hell Wendell Young was and decided to get a puck signed.

Well I walked up to Wendell who was sitting at a table looking very lonely. As I started to hand him a puck someone bumped into my arm and the puck flew into the air. For an excruciatingly long moment I fumbled with it before it clattered to the ground with a rubbery thud. I immediately retrieved my "puck-of-shame" from beneath the table and handed it to Wendell, he looked up at me and said "With reflexes like that I bet you never played goalie". For a split second I felt like I had been vanquished, then I realized I was talking to Wendell Freaken Young and responded "Well it never stopped you".

A few weeks ago I wrote about Philosophers, well i looked into what you need to do to become a philosopher. Here's what I found at www.princetonreview.com.....

You can become a philosopher simply by deciding to call yourself one. If thinking about life is practicing philosophy, who's to say that you have to be paid by a university to do it? Henry David Thoreau retreated from his fellow human beings, built a cabin at Walden Pond, and wrote books of philosophy. It helps to get published, of course, but you don't necessarily have to care whether other people follow and study your philosophy.

If this teaching thing doesn't work out I think I may have found another possible profession!

peace out yo

Wow That's Screwed Up

Jeez, who thought is was a good idea?

Ladies and Gentlemen meet the Spanish Basketball Team

Wikipedia has this to say about them..

" The Spain national basketball team is the basketball team representing Spain in international competitions. As of June, 2008 they are the reigning World Champions and third in the FIBA World Rankings for men^[1]."

The Chinese Wikipedia has this to say about them
( Nittanyproudfoot International Devision Translation)

" A Bunch of Xenophobic assholes that will be first up against the wall when the Peoples Glorious Revolution occurs. All Hail the Fearless Leader!"



Somewhere out there Prince Phillip of England is celebrating that he is no longer the most hated European in Asia

Prince Phillip to British Students studying in China 1986

"If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed."


Ah Yes ! Now that is some British Empire sized racism. Here's some of his greatest hits.

To a Briton in Budapest

“You can’t have been here that long - you haven’t got a pot belly.”

To a driving instructor in Scotland

“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”

To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea

“You managed not to get eaten, then?”

To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional robes

“You look like you’re ready for bed!”

So the moral of the story is Spanish racism is mean and hurtful, they're going to be in big trouble when our glorious overlords in Beijing take over. British Royal racism is just too darn cute to make anyone mad. The Sun never sets on that cuddly cultural bias.

Oh and if the leaders of the Peoples Republic are reading this I'd make a great Minister of Information. I never let the facts get in the way of a good story

peace out yo

Too Soon?

Q) How many Georgian soldiers does it take to screw in an Iraqi light bulb?

A) Hey! Wait! Where are you guys going??

But seriously folks don't get too concerned about the current political climate. Allow me to let you in on a little secret.

• Doomsday Clock Ticking away
  
• War in Afghanistan
  
• Tensions building with the Russians

Don't you see this isn't a world coming apart at the seams. It's just the latest viral marketing campaign for the movie The Watchmen!

quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

peace out yo

Happy Arena Day

Some guys wearing suits and plastic hats played in a pile of mulch today.

And this means that in 2 years there may be enough seats that I'll get to see more hockey games in person. Sweet

This has nothing to do with that but it's kinda funny,


Happy Arena Day Folks
peace out yo

Celeberty Hockey Signings Part 5

Larry "Little Ball of Hate" King had a long and storied NHL career before making the move to the news desk. Also known as "the Hunchbacked Howe" and the "Suspendered Sniper" King was one of the few marketable players on some abysmal Capitals teams. Playing well into his 60's King was long known as the second most hideous creature in the NHL (behind that hatchet face Chelios) but the new era of the NHL brought competition in the form of a new Capitals star that may have been born in a flaming dumpster just a few blocks down the street from Chernobyl. Seeing that his time had passed King retired from the sport to concentrate on the other loves of his life, bad posture, marrying and divorcing lots of hot women that are way out of his league. And his one true passion



Being really really old while looking like this monkey









Mission Accomplished Larry, Mission Accomplished


peace out yo

Eco-Pedal vs The Asian Sensation

So Nissan may have come up with the worst idea ever










"Eco Pedal." This new technology calculates the most fuel efficient rate of acceleration and then fights back against the driver's foot when it feels that rate has been exceeded. Nissan claims that the system can improve fuel efficiency by as much as 10 percent, which is why they plan on implementing it into their cars next year."

Well fortunately for you good people we here at the Nittanyproudfoot have designed a new device to counteract this abomination of automotive technology perpetrated by Nissan.

Ladies and Gentlemen Meet......

The Lenny Pedal

"So you made the mistake of buying a Nessian with dastardly device the Eco-Pedal and now your leg's sore from trying to speed against the wishes of your tree-hugging hippy-mobile. Maybe you're saying to yourself, "you know what it just isn't worth breaking traffic laws anymore"


Don't give up now friends help is on the way in the for of the Lenny Pedal ! (TM Nittanyproudfoot 2009)

While the Eco-Pedal may make it more difficult to put the pedal to the metal the Lenny Pedal will give you the encouragement you need. Anytime the car is in gear and traveling below the speed limit a voice playing through car audio system will announce.....

If you were a real man you'd go faster you Japansie!

If the Angry Asian voice challenging your manhood doesn't give you the drive to mash that pedal and kick it up to 88 you might as well just buy your self a Saturn and start listening to light rock


The Lenny Pedal available anywhere Nittanyproudfoot Brand automotive products are sold!


peace out yo; heeeeeeeeeeee!

Celeberty Hockey Signings Part 4

It was June of 1980 and the Chicago Blackhawks once again found themselves drafting high in the National Hockey Leagues Annual Amature Entry Draft. It was an off-year for the draft, due to a clerical error most of the players that declared for entry that year were actual drafted into the Nairnshire Highlands-Games League and spent the rest of their career in the Highlands of Scotland wearing kilts and competing in events like the Caber Toss, Stone Put, and the ever popular Weight Over The Bar. This led to what was known as the "Darhn Guud Playeeerrr" Era of the Highland Games but left NHL teams desperately searching for new talents to fill out their rosters. With few options NHL GMs turned to anyone with an athletic pedigree . The LA Kings drafted Sugar Ray Leonard, Pittsburgh picked up home town icon Arnold Palmer, and the Montreal Canadians tried unsuccessfully to lure Kareem Abdul-Jabbar away from the Los Angeles Lakers .

With time running out on their pick and all but the most nonathletic sports stars ( baseball players and NASCAR drivers) left on the board Blackhawks management made their decision. Blackhawks owner William "Dollar Bill" Wirtz wrote one word on a sheet of paper then sent a page boy to the podium. The NHL commissioner stepped to the microphone and announced the pick......

"With the fourth overall pick in the 1980 entry draft the Chicago Blackhawks select, Chicago native James Belushi"

It was at this point that Wirtz leaped on to the Blackhawks team table threw his hat down and began jumping up and down on it while cursing like a 19th century gold miner in the Yukon . Wirtz was escorted into a private side room were he was heard yelling " What do you mean this is the brother?! I wanted the Cheeseburger-Cheeseburger guy, the one that was in Animal House, you know the big guy that did cartwheels!"

And thus began a long string of mistaken draft picks by the Blackhawks. Alain and Claude instead of Mario Lemieux, Randy instead of Luc Robitaille, and Wayne instead of Keith Primeau. The Blackhawks curse was finally broken in 2001 when they selected "the Ruutu that scores goals" over "the Ruutu that gets punched in the face a lot".
To this day the drafting of Jim Belushi in the 1980 Draft is considered the second biggest draft mistake in franchise history behind the 1988 draft when the Hawks selected Jeremy Roenick instead of trading the pick for three spools of hockey tape and all the change in the left pocket of the Vancouver Canucks GM.

peace out yo

Celeberty Hockey Signings Part 3

When Ralph Macchio was drafted in the 2nd Round, 22nd overall by the New York Islanders in the 1974 NHL Entry Draft nobody expected very much form the the young scrapper out of the San Fernando Valley. He had come to notoriety a few years earlier when he brought down the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. Soon offers were pouring in from all over the Minor Leagues. he signed a lucrative deal with Laval QMJHL that would allow him to live comfortably until he could apply for the draft in the spring of '74. Macchio put up good numbers in the minors and though scouting services never considered him to be a scoring threat on the NHL level there was still a buzz when he remained on the board late in the second round.

After being selected by the Islanders The Karate Kid returned Laval for his final year of minor league eligibility. It was during this final year that the kid's hockey career fell apart. During a late season game against league powerhouse the Val-d'Or Foreurs Macchio was tapped by his coach to take on the Foreurs heavyweight after an unsportsmanlike hit on Laval's star player. Macchio was obviously out matched and 15 seconds into the bout was curled up in ball taking the beating of his life. It was about this time that a small Japanese man began yelling from the stands. Immediately the Kid was on his feet and fighting for his life. Then it happened the single most shocking moment in sports. In a moment of fear the kid reverted back to his martial arts training and kicked his opponent in the face horribly disfiguring him. Macchio was give a one year suspension, and his opponent a young player named Chris Chelios was damed to a life as the most hideous creature in hockey.

As the 1976 pre-season began Macchio prepared for his return to the world of professional sport. The Islanders desperate for body's to fill out their roster agreed to give the kid a tryout contract as long as he was willing change his name and appearance to lessen the chances of retribution for the Chelios incident. Macchio agreed to the stipulations changing his name to Brian Trottier and growing a giant mustache. Over the next 18 years Macchio won 4 Stanley Cups with the Islanders, Penguins, and Avalanche.


Hockey Season is Only Two Months Away,



Hang in there Kitty hockey will be back soon!

Peace Out Yo

Escape from FLA

So we're coming up on the four year anniversary of the NHL Lockout an event that was at the same time one of the most important and unfortunate in League history. The post lockout world is one were a franchise city doesn't necessarily need to be enormous to sustain a quality team; something that was a fact of life in the Pre-Lockout NHL (Just ask the fans in Quebec, Hartford, and Winnipeg)

So with no way to sustain their franchises in old hockey hotbeds owners were left with no choice but to relocate to Sunbelt cities with growing populations and shinny new arenas. At the time this seemed like a great solution, expand into new markets, grow the game, have teams in places were lots of people live. These intentions were all well and good the only problem was that people in these new cities were too busy touching themselves while watching cars drive around in a circle for hours on end to appreciate a real sport.

Now as a Penguins fan I understand just how horrible it is to fear that your favorite team could just pick up and leave. But lets be honest these are the places that are least capable of maintaining a quality franchise, not because of lack of capital or facilities but because quit simply people there just don't care. For any one of these teams to grow a fan base they'd have to win immediately and even that wasn't always enough.

So here's the question:

Which Current NHL franchise should be moved to a city with more passion for the sport?

Celebrity Hockey Signings Part 2

Angus "Mac"MacGyver the secret identity of marginal actor Richard Dean Anderson played the better part of 4 seasons with the Edmonton Oilers. Often paired with future Hall of Fame Winger Jari Kurri; MacGyver's greatest moment came when he won the 1985 Stanly Cup against the Philadelphia Flyers. With time winding down the Oilers found themselves behind with star players Gretzky, Messier, and Coffey all out of the game with injures. Using only old hockey equipment and his trusty pocket knife Mac was able to build a robotic Keanu Reeves to center the Oilers top line. When goalie Grant Fuhr credited this act as the deciding factor in the game Angus was quick to point out that he got the idea from a documentary he had watched the night before called Bill and Teds Bogus Journey.


peace out yo