Exceptional NY Times article.

rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
edited December 2011 in The bottom bracket
It's a long one, and it's about an ice hockey player who's only job was to punch people in the face, but this is the best newspaper article I've read this year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sport ... brawl.html

Comes in 3 parts, and it's pretty long.

Aside from the excellent journalism, the way the website has embedded the videos and pictures is also of the highest quality.

Worth a go if you have the time.
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Comments

  • jim453
    jim453 Posts: 1,360
    Incredible,

    I had no idea there existed such a role on an ice hockey team. Enforcer!, that is truly barbaric. The account and footage of him being brought on against Anaheim to calm things down is frightening. What on earth is that about? Bringing on a massive psychopath to literally scare everyone into behaving. The Colosseum could hardly have been more brutal.

    Quality article. Sad though.

    Thank you Rick.
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    It is quite possible that Wayne Gretzky would have been nothing without Marty McSorley.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    It was very interesting - the only thing missing from his notes were 'dodge, duck, dive, duck and dodge'
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

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