FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[OzJohnnie]

I just causght the last 30 minutes of Major League. What a great movie.  My votes for best sports movies of all time:

Baseball: Major League
Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (the Burt Reynolds original)
Hockey: Slapshot

Best sports movie overall: Slapshot

Your votes?

[sjusection105]

Did anyone see this story about David Forster?  He was an accomplished cross country and track runner at SJU even though he played football at Hopkins High School.  He, his brother Max and father were all Johnnies.  Max played football and baseball a couple years ago. 


http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/06/30/forster-memorial/?cid=facebook_WCCO-TV_%7C_CBS_Minnesota

Very sad. Prayers go out to the Forster family.

[Boys of Fall]

Did anyone see this story about David Forster?  He was an accomplished cross country and track runner at SJU even though he played football at Hopkins High School.  He, his brother Max and father were all Johnnies.  Max played football and baseball a couple years ago. 


http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/06/30/forster-memorial/?cid=facebook_WCCO-TV_%7C_CBS_Minnesota

Very sad. Prayers go out to the Forster family.

A very sad story.  The Forster's are a top notch family, but tough to see this happen to anyone.

[sjusection105]

I just causght the last 30 minutes of Major League. What a great movie.  My votes for best sports movies of all time:

Baseball: Major League
Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (the Burt Reynolds original)
Hockey: Slapshot

Best sports movie overall: Slapshot

Your votes?

Best rodeo movie- 8 Seconds. Lane Frost, who the movie was based on (not a documentary) was a tough S.O.B.
I'll agree with your baseball,basketball and hockey picks but football would be All the Right Moves with a young Tom Cruise and Lea Thompson and Craig T. Nelson who went on to star as Coach in the TV series comedy.
Best NASCAR movie:Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

[Mr.MIAC]

I just causght the last 30 minutes of Major League. What a great movie.  My votes for best sports movies of all time:

Baseball: Major League
Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (the Burt Reynolds original)
Hockey: Slapshot

Best sports movie overall: Slapshot

Your votes?

Baseball: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Basketball: Hoop Dreams
Football: Rudy
Hockey: Slap Shot
Boxing: Raging Bull (tie), When We Were Kings (tie)
Rugby: Invictus
Golf: Caddy Shack (tie), Happy Gilmore (tie)
Track and Field: Chariots of Fire

[retagent]

I just causght the last 30 minutes of Major League. What a great movie.  My votes for best sports movies of all time:

Baseball: Major League
Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (the Burt Reynolds original)
Hockey: Slapshot

Best sports movie overall: Slapshot


Your votes?

Baseball: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Basketball: Hoop Dreams
Football: Rudy
Hockey: Slap Shot
Boxing: Raging Bull (tie), When We Were Kings (tie)
Rugby: Invictus
Golf: Caddy Shack (tie), Happy Gilmore (tie)
Track and Field: Chariots of Fire

Bowling: The Big Lebowski   

[Mr.MIAC]

I just causght the last 30 minutes of Major League. What a great movie.  My votes for best sports movies of all time:

Baseball: Major League
Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (the Burt Reynolds original)
Hockey: Slapshot

Best sports movie overall: Slapshot


Your votes?

Baseball: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Basketball: Hoop Dreams
Football: Rudy
Hockey: Slap Shot
Boxing: Raging Bull (tie), When We Were Kings (tie)
Rugby: Invictus
Golf: Caddy Shack (tie), Happy Gilmore (tie)
Track and Field: Chariots of Fire

Bowling: The Big Lebowski   

Bowling: The Big Lebowski, closely followed by Kingpin.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AClQyr2koxc

[BDB]

Decades and decades ago, I briefly was a rodeo photographer.

Is anyone keeping score 'cause this has to go in the "things I never thought I would read here" file.

Definitely belongs in that file Oz, along with the "The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get" file of phrases that are pretty impossible to wrap your mind around.

[repete]

True enough, lads. Had the thought come up while sitting in Brother Alex Andrews history lectures I never would have believed it. But it was a first step out of grad school on an interesting road.

[faunch]

File this under "Act Like You've Been There Before"
Hey Duron...it's the CFL.

http://www.startribune.com/cris-carter-s-kid-scores-touchdown-knocks-over-coach-starts-brawl/385194521/

[OzJohnnie]

Did anyone see this story about David Forster?  He was an accomplished cross country and track runner at SJU even though he played football at Hopkins High School.  He, his brother Max and father were all Johnnies.  Max played football and baseball a couple years ago. 


http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/06/30/forster-memorial/?cid=facebook_WCCO-TV_%7C_CBS_Minnesota

Very sad. Prayers go out to the Forster family.

A very sad story.  The Forster's are a top notch family, but tough to see this happen to anyone.

Cardiac arrest?  It's a surprisingly common thing in young healthy people. Tragic.

[OzJohnnie]

File this under "Act Like You've Been There Before"
Hey Duron...it's the CFL.

http://www.startribune.com/cris-carter-s-kid-scores-touchdown-knocks-over-coach-starts-brawl/385194521/

Beyond idiotic. Stupid.

[Greggers]

Here's some bad news for Johnnie fans and other MIAC schools, but feel obligated to post it for information sakes:

Tommie recruit wins MVP in Illinois football all-star game 

http://www.pantagraph.com/eedition/page-b/page_24ebceac-a811-5bc6-901d-c006ef998871.html

Rushed for 114 yards on 9 carries, and returned a punt for a TD.

What many fans fail to realize is that many of the top prospects in the state choose not to participate in these "All-Star" Games which leaves many kids that were slightly better than average to good making up the majority of these rosters. It says something that a D3 recruit was the best player in the game. You may also notice that this kid plays in the middle of nowhere and against lesser competition. 

[OzJohnnie]

Here's some bad news for Johnnie fans and other MIAC schools, but feel obligated to post it for information sakes:

Tommie recruit wins MVP in Illinois football all-star game 

http://www.pantagraph.com/eedition/page-b/page_24ebceac-a811-5bc6-901d-c006ef998871.html

Rushed for 114 yards on 9 carries, and returned a punt for a TD.

What many fans fail to realize is that many of the top prospects in the state choose not to participate in these "All-Star" Games which leaves many kids that were slightly better than average to good making up the majority of these rosters. It says something that a D3 recruit was the best player in the game. You may also notice that this kid plays in the middle of nowhere and against lesser competition. 

Another new guy.  Welcome.

And from the looks of it as sharp as a tack.

[hazzben]

Here's some bad news for Johnnie fans and other MIAC schools, but feel obligated to post it for information sakes:

Tommie recruit wins MVP in Illinois football all-star game 

http://www.pantagraph.com/eedition/page-b/page_24ebceac-a811-5bc6-901d-c006ef998871.html

Rushed for 114 yards on 9 carries, and returned a punt for a TD.

What many fans fail to realize is that many of the top prospects in the state choose not to participate in these "All-Star" Games which leaves many kids that were slightly better than average to good making up the majority of these rosters. It says something that a D3 recruit was the best player in the game. You may also notice that this kid plays in the middle of nowhere and against lesser competition.

It's not news that some top prospects don't always play in these games. But it's not a field of scrubs either. I'm not gonna take anything away from the kid winning MVP honors. Was it a field of exclusively D1 talent? Nope, these games never are. Was it field of college caliber talent, yes. Kudos to him for the honor.

I'll also say, the competition he'll face next fall (if he sees the field) will be a significant step up from what he faced in that game.