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Razor
10-05-2006, 10:58 AM
So - my personal journey that was the 2006 World Cup championship for Italia came full circle yesterday. Budweiser sponsored the tour of the World Cup Trophy in Boston's North End (Italian section for the non-Massholes). They basically shuffle it around four different restaurants/cafes in the North End for 90 minutes each. They started off at Strega which is where I saw it.
Long story short- the thing is tiny. I wasn't expecting the Stanley Cup, but my daughter's participation trophy for the town's U6 league was taller. The thing's about the size of my forearm! Still - nice to get a pic taken with the trophy that will find it's way onto the mantle/bar.
Timmy/Penguin - any of you guys catch it? It's at a few places in Chelsea today, plus a Brazilian place in Framingham (of all places).
Timmy
10-05-2006, 11:08 AM
I caught it on the news, but I will not see it. I'm working too much for starters.
Selecao2002
10-05-2006, 11:26 AM
So - my personal journey that was the 2006 World Cup championship for Italia came full circle yesterday. Budweiser sponsored the tour of the World Cup Trophy in Boston's North End (Italian section for the non-Massholes). They basically shuffle it around four different restaurants/cafes in the North End for 90 minutes each. They started off at Strega which is where I saw it.
Long story short- the thing is tiny. I wasn't expecting the Stanley Cup, but my daughter's participation trophy for the town's U6 league was taller. The thing's about the size of my forearm! Still - nice to get a pic taken with the trophy that will find it's way onto the mantle/bar.
Timmy/Penguin - any of you guys catch it? It's at a few places in Chelsea today, plus a Brazilian place in Framingham (of all places).
Good stuff, Razor. I was hoping to swing by yesterday, but I got stuck at work. I was hoping to get a picture with trophy, Sel 2.0 and me. BTW, I just dropped off my parents at the airport; they are heading off to the land of your fathers. An Inter Figo shirt and an Italy national shirt are on the shopping list for Sel 2.0.
Selecao2002
10-05-2006, 11:27 AM
BTW, Razor, was that you delivering a Zizou headbutt to Menino's sternum?
Humbird
10-05-2006, 11:36 AM
can we see the pic?
Razor
10-05-2006, 11:57 AM
BTW, Razor, was that you delivering a Zizou headbutt to Menino's sternum?
BWAH! You're so close! Yeah - everybody was popping by for their photo op. Menino, Dimasi (at least he's a native of the North End)...if NECN's there, they are too!
It was classic North End, actually. Picture a line stretching around the corner from Strega of fans waiting for their shot at/with the trophy. For every person from that line who inched their way in, two or three people from the "friends/family of Nick" line would cut through.
I'll upload the pic in a couple of days. It is easily the worst picture taken of me in the last 10 years (and that's saying something). I've got this Scott Zolak-checking-off-the-receivers thing going for some reason. I'll post it in the next couple of days.
The trophy is shiny.
JureM
10-05-2006, 12:13 PM
Sounds like a great time...I was able to see the Stanley Cup once the year the hated Rangers won it. I was working in Rye, the town where their practice facilities used to be, and I was in this deli getting lunch when Adam Graves walks in with the Stanley Cup in hand..it really was cool to see it and touch it..though, I had to tell Graves "Lets Go Islanders!" He started laughing...now seeing the World Cup trophy is that much better, that must have been an amazing experience...question, isn't the trophy solid gold? If so, that would explain the small size....
Razor
10-05-2006, 12:20 PM
Sounds like a great time...I was able to see the Stanley Cup once the year the hated Rangers won it. I was working in Rye, the town where their practice facilities used to be, and I was in this deli getting lunch when Adam Graves walks in with the Stanley Cup in hand..it really was cool to see it and touch it..though, I had to tell Graves "Lets Go Islanders!" He started laughing...now seeing the World Cup trophy is that much better, that must have been an amazing experience...question, isn't the trophy solid gold? If so, that would explain the small size....
Yeah - it's solid gold.
Hands down - the Stanley Cup is the best championship trophy there is. The World Series Trophy is pathetic, the NBA is a rip-off of the Lombardi trophy. The Lombardi trophy is pretty sweet, but will be much cooler once they rename it the Bill Belichick Trophy after he wins a couple more SBs ;).
Here was the pic from the Globe. Sel - Traviglini was there, too (as you can see from the pic with Nick and Mumbles):
http://www.boston.com/sports/soccer/articles/2006/10/05/north_end_embraces_world_cup_trophy/
I saw the wc trophy before this last world cup. They were touring it around the cities that has hosted the finals.
Rax is right. The thing is shiny as it is tiny. Couldn't hold it though. They had the damn thing in a glass case. Will have to wait 'till I win and lift the trophy myself.
Humbird
10-05-2006, 02:05 PM
where else in the US is it going?
Razor
10-05-2006, 05:34 PM
where else in the US is it going?
NYC, Miami and HUMMYTOWN!
Humbird
10-05-2006, 08:26 PM
do you know where it will be?
Razor
10-06-2006, 07:51 AM
do you know where it will be?
Eventually - FIFA headquarters (ha!)
I don't know the schedule. Maybe if you Google "budweiser world cup trophy tour chicago"?
Humbird
10-06-2006, 08:07 AM
I can't find anything. I think you are making this all up.
JureM
10-06-2006, 09:18 AM
I can't find anything. I think you are making this all up.
We never make things up here...we just think up of things as we go. There's a difference.
Razor
10-06-2006, 11:28 AM
We never make things up here...we just think up of things as we go. There's a difference.
I didn't make it up - that's what the lady from Budweiser told me at the showing in Boston. Sorry I don't have any other details for you-
BTW - how are you and Mr. H coping with da Bears ressurgence?!
tsk, tsk, tsk... thought you knew better. Mr H. is a cheese head.
Razor
10-06-2006, 01:06 PM
tsk, tsk, tsk... thought you knew better. Mr H. is a cheese head.
My point exactly! Living as a cheesehead amongst Bears fans isn't easy to begin with. Doing so when the Bears are actually good again must pose an exceptional challenge!
JureM
10-06-2006, 01:07 PM
My point exactly! Living as a cheesehead amongst Bears fans isn't easy to begin with. Doing so when the Bears are actually good again must pose an exceptional challenge!
Mr. H needs to be cannonized into Sainthood! This is truly going above and beyond.
Razor
10-06-2006, 01:24 PM
I've been duped! :wth: You'd think a major FIFA sponsor like Budweiser would have done their homework before putting their name on this thing.
What's next?!?! The Azzurri didn't really win this summer?!! :mad:
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=160968
Humbird
10-06-2006, 06:01 PM
Yikes! That's actionable! False Advertising! Malicious malice aforethought! Hang the bastards.
Humbird
10-06-2006, 06:04 PM
BTW - how are you and Mr. H coping with da Bears ressurgence?!
heheheheheheheheheeee :malevolent laughter:
The year the Packers won the superbowl, his aunt in Milwaukee had a minor heart attack during the last playoff game prior to the SB. The paramedics were called to her home and she refused to go to to the hospital until the game was over and the Packers were definitely in. So she and the paramedics watched the game to the end with her hooked up to their monitoring machines. then they went to the hospital.
Timmy
10-07-2006, 07:31 AM
Milwaukee
The land of cheese, beer, and sausages.
I am SHOCKED that Mr. Boid's aunt would suffer from cardiac issues.
Humbird
10-09-2006, 11:54 AM
USA USA USA USA
IT'S AN AMERICAN SWEEP!
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - American Edmund S. Phelps won the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for explaining the relationship between inflation and unemployment, work that has had a profound impact on macroeconomic policy.
Last week, the Nobel medicine prize went to Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of specific genes. Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the physics prize for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of how the universe was created.
American Roger D. Kornberg won the prize in chemistry for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins, a process that could provide insight into defeating cancer and advancing stem cell research.
Only the Literature prize and Peace Prize remain to be announced.
Only the Literature prize and Peace Prize remain to be announced.
I'm shooting for either one of those two. I really feel this is my year after so many disappointments.
JureM
10-09-2006, 12:28 PM
I'm shooting for either one of those two. I really feel this is my year after so many disappointments.
Yeah, but there are so many good Portuguese writers out there. You have a ton of competition. ;) (hint hint)
Timmy
10-09-2006, 12:57 PM
Yeah, but there are so many good Portuguese writers out there. You have a ton of competition. ;) (hint hint)
Problem is, the great Portuguese-American novel hasn't been written.
Not that it has to be written in order to be great :hammer:
JureM
10-09-2006, 01:11 PM
Yeah, but once written it will be like something we've never seen before. Remember these things take time.
Tho the novel is still in the works, the title has been had for decades now.
A Newark Tale...
JureM
10-09-2006, 01:31 PM
Tho the novel is still in the works, the title has been had for decades now.
A Newark Tale...
Now, the question is this, will this great book be one of those books that are prominently displayed on the bookshelf or is it going to be one of those that are on the coffee table for all to see?
Timmy
10-09-2006, 01:47 PM
Tho the novel is still in the works, the title has been had for decades now.
A Newark Tale...
Much better than the original title: "Chicken Sopa for the Soul".
Humbird
10-09-2006, 01:58 PM
I hate those "for the soul" books. hack pooo.
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