Offical "WTF?!?!?!!?" of the day...Manute Bol signs hockey contract

[vi edit]

Oh my god

 

[spaceman]

i saw that too on espn this morning.
it made me think of the movie "Cool Running" which in turn made me think of John Candy
i miss that guy.

 

[Viper GTS]

That guy is one seriously skinny mofo, he's 17 inches taller than me & outweighs me by maybe 15 lbs, if that.

Freaking scary.

Viper GTS

 

[Mill]

WTF did this happen. This is so wrong on so many levels.

 

[MichaelD]

Wow...dunno what to say. I mean...size 23 hockey skates? He could accidently dismember somebody if he tagged them w/the skate! :Q

But hey, as the article stated "We're in the entertainment industry!"

 

[vi edit]

He'd remind me of what would happen if you put ice skates on a giraffe and put it on ice.

 

[Blieb]

Give it a week

 

[Spooner]

*SNAP*!!!

2 minutes for breaking opponent in half

 

[kherman]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Oh my god

Read the article. He is most likely not going to be on the ice. being a hockey player myself, you couldn't even take miceal jordan and make him play professional hockey. it's jsut to hard of a sport to play and know the game.

ASs a goalie, pros would just pick him apart. As a defensman, he wouldn't people to hold postiion. AS a forward/center, he would just get destroyed in the offesnive zone.

not tomention everyone would be skating circles around him.

 

[Fausto]

If you guys read the article, it's pretty clear that he's just doing it to raise money to help Sudan pull itself out of Hell. I think that's actually pretty admirable considering the horrible sh*t that's happened there in the last 20 years or so.

 

[vi edit]

Yeh, I read that. But it did state he was going to "suit up" once or twice. The thought of a 7'7" man ice skating is hard to vision.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Yeh, I read that. But it did state he was going to "suit up" once or twice. The thought of a 7'7" man ice skating is hard to vision.

Whatever brings in the loot, I guess.

In an aside, a bunch of the "Lost Boys of the Sudan" that were resettled in the states live near me (Clarkston, GA is a popular place to resettle refugees for some reason). It's been pretty cool to follow them getting used to living here in the states (via the local papers). People have really reached out to help them; a nice story in the midst of all the other miserable crap that goes on here on a daily basis.

 

[StinkyMeat]

Sweet. Finally something interesting happening in hockey.