#2012 Playoffs

[tyforthevnm]

My Chemical Romance at the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs 2012 (1, 2)

[June 11, 2012]

[samanthasgone]

When I first started watching hockey, my first favorite and hometown team 🥲

[shewannagoviral]

Future at the San Francisco 49ers vs New Orleans Saints Divisional Playoff Game (2012)

[freebooter4ever]

ok i've been taking a break for the past half hour and doing research on the pens locker room, trying to figure out how i wanted to design my own version of geno's 'stall' (is that what it's called?). i love the circular shape it feels very king arthur

first, there isn't a lot of internet documented history on the various eras of the locker room design??? which seems sad

don't get me wrong the latest iteration is pretty epic but as far is i can tell, it hasn't changed much since at least 2013? i do not envy whoever is cleaning this place. thats a lot of sweat over the years.

second, im enjoying seeing little details that i had no idea existed, being a new fan and all. like the puck wins count???? crazy. these guys have a visual representation of how they're doing in the season right up there on the wall glaring judgmentally at them? im so glad im not in sports. i would not survive.

especially when the HISTORY of these pucks is on the walls.....like damn. talk about pressure. anyway 2011-2012 thats one of geno's best seasons right? :)

this is what I wanted. mesh, hooks, I need to figure out how i want to make this look cool.

i find it really funny and endearing that the thing these guys do to relax in down time is a playful version of their own job....

also im not sure about this like:

are they assigned a razor??? you get traded to the penguins and suddenly you're not allowed to use your fancy expensive specialized razor? is this a normal thing in hockey????? do they have group shaves for special events like the playoffs? hockey players are fascinating.

i dont know why but i never considered that the pens have actual lockers in addition to the little seats in the main locker room. this makes total sense. i dont know where i thought their clothes and stuff went. just disappeared into the ether i guess.

anyway definitely a necessity, the hot tub. it looks a little sad and lonely in this photo. it needs a hockey player in it.

racks and racks of gear???? again this makes total sense but never occurred to me. also maybe helps explain why geno likes to switch up gloves, look at all them, damn. i do wonder about helmets still - geno's looks so unique and he's been using the same design since at least 2009.

ok im guessing this is an away locker room and i have only one question: do they bring a little 'logo' carpet to roll out every time they go on the road? thats amazing.

if you read all that, nice! here's a shot of geno with his jock out:

very important locker room research. bonus the earliest pens locker room photo of geno i could find:

shy beautiful boy ^_^ (also he looks so young and vulnerable its hard to believe that even back in 2008/2009 he already had so much responsibility with so many grown adults making demands on his entire career)(like he went through all that AND is still playing in the league with three cups under his belt? thats fucking awesome)

[mydaddywiki]

Chip Kelly

Physique: Husky/Average Build Height: 6' (1.83 m)

Charles Edward Kelly (born November 25, 1963) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the UCLA Bruins. He came to prominence as the head coach of the Oregon Ducks from 2009 to 2012, whom he led to four consecutive BCS bowl game appearances, including the 2011 BCS National Championship Game. This success led to him serving as a head coach in the NFL for four seasons, three with the Philadelphia Eagles (2013–2015) and one with the San Francisco 49ers (2016). Kelly only made the playoffs in his first season with Philadelphia, and he was fired from both teams. After leaving the NFL, Kelly returned to college football in 2018 to coach UCLA.

Chip Kelly, a name synonymous with offensive brilliance even though his UCLA record is around .500. Obviously he has a cute, sexy body but the main attraction was his face. I don’t think there’s been a time where I’ve seen Chip and immediately had thoughts of boning him and milking him dry.

Once married, Kelly is reluctant to discuss his life outside of football. The Dover, NH native lives in Los Angeles, California but has a small, tight-knit group of friends in Manchester, NH, who never speak about him to reporters. That kinda adds to the rumor that Chip use to swing when he was married and coaches for both teams if you get my meaning.

[fuckyeaharizonacoyotes]

Unfortunately, my first post back is also my last one. There is a part of me that feels some guilt for not updating this account since 2017, so apologies for not sticking around.

With that said, I would like to thank everyone who has ever interacted with this blog.

...

I became a fan in the summer of 2009. I spent that summer trying to remember names and faces, reading up on the team’s history and figuring out what games I hope my family and I would attend. Every time we went to a game, the Coyotes would win- I literally thought I was some sort of good luck charm. Delusional, I know, but it only fueled my love for the team. Everything really felt official when my dad got me an Oliver Ekman-Larsson jersey after the 2012 playoffs. A player who I���ve watched get drafted, get called up and score his first goal. My favorite player. A couple years later, I got the jersey signed by him, something so simple that I will cherish forever.

At the moment, I feel numb. I know this sounds selfish considering how fortunate the Coyotes were given the multiple chances compared to other teams. Relocation of any team sucks even when I say that as a Coyotes fan. Now I can say that I share their pain, unfortunately. It’s almost as if these past few years of constant relocation rumors would have helped me somewhat prepare for if or when the time comes. Needless to say, I’m am not prepared.

As time winds down, it will slowly start to hit me that this is actually happening to a team that has meant so much to me for half of my life. I got to witness countless goals, comebacks, hat tricks (one of them being Shane Doan’s) and whiteouts. These memories will always live with me and I am forever grateful to have experienced these moments either in person or from the comfort of my home. I’m also grateful for the players who had stuck with this team through thick and thin. The ones who signed on when things weren’t looking up, the ones who continued to play hard in the mist of losing streaks and especially the ones who said they wanted to stay a Coyote.

I know no one from the team will read this but from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you for giving me something to cheer for and for the memories. It truly means more than anyone could ever know.

With tonight being the last Coyotes game, here is my final LET’S GO COYOTES! ♥️

[stamkose]

ok this is scream into the void kinda post but hi I was part of hockey tumblr from like 2012-2017 posting mainly about the hawks and oilers and then hawks stuff got bad and honestly I stopped keeping up with hockey in general. don't rly know how I got sucked back into the hockey world but here I am! hawks pretty much died 4 me (rip) but I still am nostalgic for the OGs. still a struggling oilers fan but I am stuck in the past and only know like 4 players. without a main team or fave player I immediately imprinted on matthew tkachuk and the cats during the 2023 playoffs and i’m here to stay. this all being said!!!! ive met a couple cool ppl and would love to meet more (so many ppl I followed from 2012-2017 are inactive and my dash is kinda dead). I need ppl to follow!!!! (and chat with ab all things hockey)

TLDR; I miss hockey tumblr so if you’re a general hockey/oilers/panthers blog like this so I can follow u thank u 🫶🏼

[unmanageably]

whats the tea on kd leaving the warriors? i was a casual fan at the time it happened so i don't know the situation

well... let me be brief (1/278)

lmao jk but.... well a lot! and most of it is speculation, etcetc ofc we'll never truly know until 20 years later when the last dance-esque documentary comes out about the warriors in the steph curry era lmao-- but the story goes like this:

kevin durant was the superstar of okc thunder and was steadily building up the franchise over the years to become serious contenders for a championship. they were always close, but had never quite made it. but with a good FO/org behind him, westbrook by his side, they were always really close— but again, as we all know, it was never enough (made the finals in 2012. lost. would make the playoffs but always got defeated). in 2016, they once again get really close at the western conference finals where they led the series 3-1 against the warriors. despite that they lose. a mere month later, he joins the warriors: a team that's obviously at the beginning of a dynasty— they won a championship in 2015 and made it into the finals in 2016. but more importantly, the team that beat kevin durant and okc thunder at the conference finals.

there were layers to this "betrayal" and to this day people still think this one decision "ruined the sport" (lol). people saw it as a betrayal on KD's part and it took an incredible hit to his reputation. you almost make it to the finals, you have an incredible teammate in westbrook by your side, an org that supports you and is willing to uplift you to your highest star potential, and you leave? to join the team that BEAT you? to the team that has steph curry, klay thompson, draymond green, andre iguodala?

already a hugely successful team without KD, but with him, it was undeniable. a superteam. yeah, a lot of team has duos or trios. lebron and kyrie, lebron and dwade, harden and cp3, etcetc. but this team was different levels. a whole team full. the team was 73-9 without KD. massively talented already. but now? steph, KD, klay as offensive threats. draymond and andre as defensive threats. insanely good roleplayers like shaun livingston.

everyone was livid. not just OKC fans. everyone in the league! the warriors, and KD's name specifically was tarnished. how disrespectful for the warriors to even think about creating a team like this. how disrespectful for KD to leave an org that's done so much for him. sports media was tearing into them, fans were tearing into them, they were quite literally, the most hated north american sports team. fans were burning jerseys, making videos threatening KD, etc.

we all know how KD with the warriors went. winning fixes all, right? arguably the most dominant team in nba history (2017 warriors vs 1996 bulls a common debate to this day), the warriors absolutely dominated the nba, and went on to win the 2017 and 2018 championships. KD finally gets his two rings and a FMVP. and the warriors still stay the most hated team in the league. you either loved the warriors or hated them! no in between. the narrative is that KD's rings were called into question because he "had a superteam" so they weren't "valid".

2018-2019 is when it all kinda starts falling apart. the warriors are plagued with injuries, and it's just clear they don't have the synergy and chemistry that they did before. it was most clear during a game against the clippers where draymond and kd visibly fought after a bad play at the end where draymond refused to pass to kd. draymond had allegedly yelled at kd and told him to just leave the warriors, and that they didn't need him (kd's contract was up that year as well). KD has said in later years that that argument was kind of like the ~last straw for him and the nail in the coffin for him leaving. he had already been having feelings of being "the odd man out"— though they were winning together and had good synergy on court, the core3 plus the other players were already a tight knit family long before he had arrived. after the incident with draymond, the team never really sat down and talked about it: just brushed it under the rug (dray was suspended for one game but nothing was talked about). KD felt like it was a slap in the face, all this stuff about how gsw is known for good team chemistry and good culture but they just wanted to brush that very public incident under the rug? after that he started playing more selfishly— less like how they would play as a team and more in isolation. KD gets injured during the finals, and as we know, klay gets injured as well: we lose the finals. we don't get the sought after three-peat. KD signs with the brooklyn nets and the rest is history.

i talked a lot about the beginning of KD signing on to the warriors because i feel like that was really the root of why he left. he became one of the most hated players in north american sports. his own fans tore into him. sports media all tore into him. calling him mentally weak, pathetic, etc. and does winning fix all? i feel like KD with the warriors was proof that... it doesn't. KD gets two rings that he basically sold his soul to the devil for AND two FMVPs and people still don't respect him. on top of that he wins it with the warriors: which has always been and will always be Steph Curry's Team. yeah he was integral to those wins, but you can't compete with how steph has built the dynasty, yk? what steph has given to the warriors.

so at the end of the day, the story goes like this: KD "betrays" okc by going to the team who beat him in the conference finals, creates the first real "superteam" in the nba (the superteam discourse is a whole other thing smh like teams aren't trying to do that now but i digress). the whole sports world is going in on him, he's basically sold his soul for these rings. he gets his rings, he gets his FMVP. but his legacy and reputation is still called into question: he's integral but still won his rings and his FMVPs on STEPH CURRYs team, not his. Steph's. on top of all the outside noise, internally he's not happy either. he doesn't feel protected within the team. he has beef with draymond, and steph/klay + the franchise will clearly always have their loyalty to draymond. he doesn't buy into the team culture anymore, and he feels like the odd one out. the only thing that could make him stay would be to keep winning more rings. but the two rings he has didn't fix anything. so why stay? what does he have going for him?

(he goes on to bounce between different teams, tries to build his own superteams but never comes as close as he did. meanwhile steph klay and draymond go through a tough two years, considerably the lowest two years in the steph/core3 era, and come out on top: they win the '22 finals, against a celtics team that had an 84% chance of winning the finals. they save their dynasty, their legacy. steph proves that he won a chip BEFORE KD, during KD, and AFTER KD as well.)

[msmargaretmurry]

☕️ favorite sporting event you have attended in person — any sport, does not have to be hocke. yand also Least Favorite if you feel like airing out grievances and/or woes!!!

i will make a List!! in no particular order, favorite sporting events i have attended in person:

2015 winter classic at nats park

the game where ovi scored his 500th (and 501st) goal

the potomac nationals single-a baseball game my bff and i attended where the pnats baby pitcher threw a no-hitter

the bowie baysox double-a baseball game a pal and i attended to see adley rutschman before he got promoted to the o's and i asked my friend "when is he gonna hit a dinger over the left field fence" and then he hit a dinger over the left field fence

2023 asg in sunrise and the cats/bolts game the monday after

nicklas backstrom hat trick vs tampa in 2014

2013 nhl draft in new jersey where my friend and i were wearing medicine hat tigers jerseys (don't ask) and in the seventh round gmgm drafted a medicine hat tiger, we cheered, and as he walked by us after gmgm was like "that was for you 😉" gmgm call me!!!!!

erie otters vs. london knights in 2016 featuring baby dylan strome and baby matthew tkachuk in erie. last game of the season to decide who won top seed in the conference! erie won!! also everything in the team store was on clearance for the end of the season!! otters forever!!!

first ever nwhl game in boston!!

rat crew game last season when almost all of rat crew came to dc and we went to caps/oilers and everyone borrowed caps jerseys from me and we objectified leon draisaitl together and then the caps won a very fun game!!! i love my FRIENDS

every game i have been to where dylan strome scored a goal

the first mlb game i ever went to as a child, reds vs braves in cincinatti where we were visiting cousins (there was no baseball team in dc yet) and my dad disappeared for a while during the game and afterward it turned out he had set the vcr to record the broadcast and when he disappeared he'd walked over the the broadcast booth to ask them to say hi to us and so we watched the tape of the game they said hi to us 😭

i could keep going, i have had so many great sports experiences with pals. i'm probably forgetting at least one big one. but the list is so long already, so: least favorite in-person sports experiences!!!!

2012 playoffs round two game three. rangers at capitals. caps lost in triple overtime lmfao

2017 playoffs round two game seven. pens at caps. lmfao

the caps/oilers game in dc this year, when i was like i'm fine going to games alone i'm just gonna go and vibe!! but then the caps got shut out so badly it made me cry lmao

[tyforthevnm]

My Chemical Romance at the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs 2012 | src

[June 11, 2012]

[typingtess]

New Year’s Eve  was for Michelle.

When they were first married, one or both of them would be working New Year’s Eve so the holiday didn’t mean much.  After the kids came along, it became a night where they’d hire a sitter and go out to party.  The sitter, more often than not, was a SEAL buddy’s college-student kid who would be tolerating about zero percent of nonsense from the Hanna children.

Sometimes they’d go all out – in 2012, they rented out a room at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan and stayed with the kids.  They watched the ball drop in Times Square from the comfort of their own hotel room.  But usually, New Year’s Eve was for Michelle.  And Sam always had a good time.

For December 31, 2015, Sam suggested a quiet evening at home.  It was a hellacious year with Sam getting shot in February.  Pushing the idea of spending the night with his family, Michelle was a little suspicious.  Aiden spilled the beans – he and Sam were looking forward to watching the College Football Playoffs before ringing in the New Year.  Sam sheepishly confirmed Aiden’s beans spilling – he thought the family earned a quiet night a home.

Michelle explained what she earned.  Since mid-November, she planned, cooked and hosted Thanksgiving for 17-people including several of his SEAL friends, Raymond Hanna and Callen.  She then spent the next month decorating the house for Christmas, buying gifts for kids, Raymond, a few of his coworkers.  She bought all the food and did all the prep for the Christmas Eve barbeque he planned with some friends followed by most of the clean-up and then made dinner on Christmas night for 10 – all the cooking and post-meal clean-up. 

Michelle was spending New Year’s Eve with someone else doing the cooking, someone else doing the cleaning, someone else doing the decorating and someone else doing the entertaining.  Sam could stay home and watch football, she was going on a dinner cruise in Marina del Rey where there would be fireworks at 9PM and 12M to celebrate the New Year on the East and West Coasts.  And she’d find someone to share the evening with – maybe her Mom.

Sam quickly changed course.  He’d TiVo the games and watch them with Aiden after the New Year's Day bowl games.  They could have the quiet day at home after Michelle’s richly deserved party night.

[sergeifyodorov]

Sidney Crosby for the character ask

actually i do have a very specific first impression of sidney which is that i was . can’t have been ten, probably closer to seven or eight and i was living w my dad and hockey was on and it was pens vs a team that was not the leafs, and i knew he was a leafsfan so i was like “why are you watching hockey if it’s not your team” and he was like “sometimes i like to watch it for sid the kid” and i was like. a kid? and he pointed out what must have been a truly baby sidney and i remember clearly thinking I Hope He’ll Be A Leaf Some Day… truly my delusions have always been there.

IMPRESSION NOW

well GOAT obviously

beyond that he is such a good leader and obviously just a huge awkward dorky sweetheart -- there are no stories of bad encounters with him, like, ever. i think my general vision of him is just someone who is so stubborn and willful and good, who has pushed all of himself into doing hockey and doing hockey well and has negotiated some kind of reward from the universe for it. definitely has The Tism. if i were a hockey boy i too wouldve jerked off to posters of young sidney.

also is aging incredibly as both a player and as a guy… i don’t think either sidney or the audience are ready for silver fox sidney crosby. but the time is approaching far more rapidly than either of us would care to admit

i do however believe that the instant he retires he will vanish into the distant nova scotian woods, or perhaps the sea, and we will never hear anything about him again.

FAV MOMENT

much like ovi, sidney is Old and thereby has an abundance of Moments. Here are some:

sidovi duelling hat tricks night (it was both of their moments, come on)

That one anecdote about him walking with reporters coatless somewhere in the negative tens, followed by them going through the tim hortons in the rink and people stopping and realizing who it is the moment that he goes into the elevator

2010 olympic golden goal

this isn’t technically a Sidney Moment but the steve dangle tweet about “has sidney crosby passed the torch followed by sidney crosby ripping out his opponent’s heart and eating it has been happening for the past six years” (the tweet itself is also about four or five years old)

The entirety of his Fucked Up Teeth era where he had to wear the fishbowl and fought a bunch of people . I think we don’t remember enough that Sid used to be an absolute bloody menace -- I’m pretty sure he’s either the only rookie or one of the only rookies with 100 pts and 100 PIM in a season.

he did the michigan before it was cool btw

IDEA FOR STORY

well let’s go back to the disappearing into the woods thing. have you guys heard of sable island perchance

well u see. there is an island off the coast of nova scotia

it’s got an electoral district and everything. Or it’s part of one. Which is weird because only a couple of researchers live there periodically.

anyway. king under the mountain type au where post-concussions sid decides instead to leave hockey, go back to nova scotia and become a lighthouse keeper/researcher. living on sable island, skating once a year on the thin-ass ocean ice when it freezes. disappears when the sport of hockey needs him most etc

in fact in this au he leaves in 2012, and because there’s no hope of his returning the penguins are. Substantially worse in the following year, not only breaking hard from the playoffs but also doing a leedle light tanking to get themselves a similarly touted prospect… 2013 first overall pick nathan mackinnon.

natemac who is and has always been a sidney fanboy numero uno AND a sicko who wants 2 win above all else. natemac who gets himself immediately into a war of wills with geno because geno wants sid to live a good life, a long and peaceful life away from where he has been and natemac who knows that there is something else going on. that sid gave up, but he is not lost.

so nate and geno play out nate’s rookie year; nate breaks in the offseason for sable island in search of sidney. cue geno coming along.

nategenosidney roadtrip 2 return to hockey nightmare psychosexual experience for everyone involved (geno has to contend with his feelings for sidney, a dear friend and colleague who he wants to both protect and win alongside, as well as his frustration towards nate, this doughy-faced and overemotional young firecracker… a lot like a certain sid, back in the day.) (sid has to deal with his feelings for geno, a respected teammate who he wanted to become captain after him but so clearly would rather not have that spot in his life replaced, and his new affection for this nate guy, someone who is so earnest and so competitive and so insane in exactly the same way as him that he’s not sure if it’s deliriously endearing or driving him nuts)(nate has to deal with his huge awfully enrapturing celebrity crush on someone he has always wanted to play with but who is apparently unavailable and has to deal with this sort of weird captainrookie mutual bullying homoeroticism he’s developed with geno)

i think this just ends up in a threesome tbh but who am i to say

UNPOPULAR OPINION

honestly… i do not find him that particularly attractive… i think it is maybe something to do with yalls competency kink (can’t blame u). the lips and the ass are great though he’s just almost too pretty for me. 

also i am a sidstache truther

FAV RELATIONSHIP

genuine tie between nate, geno, and ovi

FAV HEADCANON

go read jes ticklefighthockey’s entire archive right now and then go read her entire ao3. THAT is true sidscholarship i do not feel as if i am anywhere near capable of that level of it

[d-criss-news]

Friday BP: Darren Criss to sing anthem for Giants home opener

I was over the moon yesterday when the San Francisco Giants announced that Emmy and Golden Globe award winner Darren Criss will be appearing to sing the national anthem for the home opener on April 7th against the Kansas City Royals.

Criss is perhaps best known for his roles on “Glee” and “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace” (for which he won Emmy and Golden Globe awards in 2018). He is also an accomplished musician, a San Francisco native, and a life long Giants fan.

Full disclosure, I might be one of the biggest Darren Criss fans there is. I’ve followed him since his days on YouTube, where he got his start singing Disney covers, and then with the theater company he co-founded called Starkid Productions, with whom he played Harry Potter in their A Very Potter Musical series.

In the peak years of his run as Blaine Anderson on “Glee” I had hoped to see him get to sing at one of the Giants’ playoff home games in the 2010-2014 championship era, but it was his “Glee” co-star Matthew Morrison (a friend of Barry Zito) who got the opportunity in Game 2 of the 2012 World Series. So this will mark Criss’ first time singing the anthem for his hometown team.

I’ve seen Criss perform live multiple times, most recently when he was starring in a run of Hedwig and the Angry Inch in San Francisco in 2016. Not only was his love for the Giants enshrined in his section of the playbill, but he made repeated references to (then) AT&T Park during the show (which features a fair amount of ad-libbing in the performances).

So I, for one, am even more excited now about the home opener and Giants baseball returning to Oracle Park.

[scotianostra]

On October 31st 1903 Hampden Park stadium opened in Glasgow as the home of Queen’s Park Football Club.

Sources differ some say October 25th but SFA state 31st, I think the confusion is that there ws a previous stadium called Hampden, it is now occupied by railway lines and a lawn bowling club named Hampden Bowling Club. It opened on 25th October 1873 and closed 10 years later. It was the first enclosed stadium with turnstiles in the country

Hampden was the biggest stadium in the world, it would hold this record until 1950 when The Maracanã Stadium in Rio, it held and incredible 199,854 for the final.

Back to Hampden, it opened for a league game on this day in 1903, three years late it held it’s first international when Scotland played England in front of a crowd of 102,741 people, which established Hampden as the primary home of the Scotland team.

Attendances continued to increase during the remainder of the 1900s, as 121,452 saw the 1908 Scotland v England match. A new world record of 127,307 were in attendance to see Scotland play England in 1912.

World record crowds attended Scotland matches against England in 1931 and 1933 and it was 33 that saw the first team from mainland Europe, Austria visit the stadium. Further ground improvements increased the official capacity of the ground to 183,388 in 1937, but the SFA were only allowed to issue 150,000 tickets for games. The 1937 Scotland v England match had an official attendance of 149,415, but at least 20,000 more people entered the ground without tickets.

During WW2 a government official presented an order demanding that both the Hampden and Lesser Hampden pitches be ploughed and used to plant vegetables, but the Queen’s Park committee chose to ignore the order and the government did not pursue it.

Hampden hosted the 1960 European Cup Final; Real Madrid defeated 7–3 Eintracht Frankfurt with 130,000 people in attendance. By the time the next European cup final was held in 1976 between Bayern Munich of West Germany and Saint-Étienne of France the attendance had fallen to 54,670. The French complained about the goalposts stating that two of their efforts which hit the square crossbar and rebounded into play would have resulted in goals if it had been round!

Hampden was aging and the capacity was cut 81,000, redevelopment started in October 1981 and completed in 1986, reduced the capacity to 74,370 and cost £3 million. After the cancellation of the annual Scotland v England fixture in 1989, questions were raised as to whether Scottish football required a separate national stadium, other venues were mooted but the SFA and the stadium committee rejected these and after securing a grant of £3.5 million in 1992, work to begin on a £12 million project to convert Hampden into an all-seater stadium, Hampden was re-opened for a friendly match between Scotland and Netherlands on 23 March. The final stage of the renovation began in November 1997, costing £59 million, inevitably the price soared but Hampden was re-opened for the 1999 Scottish Cup Final. The ground now has a capacity of 51,866.

The stadium was again fit to host the top matches and Real Madrid were again victorious when Hampden Park hosted the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final, defeating Bayer Leverkusen, with Zinedine Zidane scoring the winning goal with a left-foot volley.

In 2012, a Scotland women’s national football team game was played at Hampden for the first time, when it hosted the first leg of a European Championship qualifying playoff against Spain and Hampden was temporarily converted into an athletics stadium for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the European Championship in 2020 the National stadium has been chosen by Uefa as on of 13 venues for the competition and I am sure the people of Scotland will welcome whoever is chosen to play in Glasgow.

With the advent of big stadium concerts Hampden has been used to host a wealth of worldwide acts Genesis and Paul Young performed in the first concert at Hampden, in 1987. The Rolling Stones played there in 1990, during their Urban Jungle Tour. Since the redevelopment of Hampden was completed in 1999, many acts have performed there, including The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Bon Jovi, Eagles, U2,Oasis, George Michael, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Diamond, Take That, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Pink, Paul McCartney, Rihanna, and Beyoncé.

In 2018 the SFA )Scottish Football Association)agreed a £5m fee for the national stadium with Queen's Park, just this year it was used to host games in the delayed Euro 2020 matches. The stadium recently played host to the 15oth anniversary Scotland v England match, the lesssaid about that game the better! ;)

The pictures show the changes to the stadium over the past 118 years.

[fabuloustrash05]

Where did you find out TMNT 2012 Casey has a childhood best friend called Nick? :)

He talks about him in the episode Target: April O'Neil in season 2. April visits him at the hockey rink (this was when she was still had at the Turtles for mutating her dad) and Casey tells her the story about Nick and how they are no longer friends because of a hockey game incident.

Casey: So what's your deal? Never see you hanging out with anybody. Antisocial much?

April: Not really. I had four really close friends. I don't talk to them anymore...

Casey: It happens. Me and my best friend Nick were up against tromatown in last year's playoffs, right? He came up behind me just as I was about to sink the winning goal, and wham! Smacked his helmet straight off. Swollen face, split lip, my best friend since second grade never spoke to me again...

April: But it's not like you meant it.

Casey: Right. Some stuff is just beyond our control. 

This story has April reflect on the way she treated the Turtles, how it is the same way Nick treated Casey, blaming them for something that was out of their control.

[ohsunnyboy]

someone needs to physically restrain me from making a hockey au mark fic bc why did i only just remember this man is from toronto and raised in vancouver

this is a weird way of revealing that i haven't been around much kpop bc i've been too busy watching hockey (go follow me @wannadewar - i might start writing fic for it) and i am delulu abt toronto making it past the first round

the fact is, is that mark auditioned for sm in 2012 in vancouver and the infamous vancouver riots fkn happened in 2011 SO THIS KID IS A NUCKS FAN (fun fact i was watching vancouver vs edmonton live as i was typing up the sungchan fic at 3am)

WAIT NEWS UPDATE KEEHO IS FULLY TORONTONIAN OH MY GOD SOMEBODY SEDATE ME

jeon somi is also from ontario but grew up directly across from detroit so she definitely saw the redwings win the cup multiple times

do not get me started on the fact that johnny is from chicago and also definitely saw the blackhawks win it at least once those cup celebrations were wild no way he didn't see one

oh well, i'm back *jazz hands* this was pure ramble and thought vomit but maybbeee i'll get an au down in the future.

hope you all get into the nhl it's v entertaining (and the players are smoking hot) since it's currently playoffs rn so the tension is crazy too !

see you round <3