Wherein Pookie Describes The Mindset Of This Offseason’s Devils Fan

June 9, 2010 by Schnookie

So we’re watching the SCF game tonight, and about midway through the first period a commercial comes on for Pizza Hut. It features two little bratty kids in baseball uniforms talking about how losing isn’t all that bad, because when they lose, their coach takes them to Pizza Hut. Neither Schnookie nor Boomer have seen the commercial before, and Pookie lets it run about halfway before saying, “Yeah, I saw this commercial the other day. And I was like, ‘Shut the fuck up, Jamie Langenbrunner.‘”

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on June 9, 2010 at 8:42 pm Mags

I have so. much. love. for Pookie right now.
on June 9, 2010 at 8:45 pm Schnookie

I know, right? She totally tossed that off without thinking, and I was like, “There’s our post for tonight!” She’s all, “Wait, what?” Pookie is VERY dedicated to her hatred of Jamie Langenbrunner. Heh.
on June 9, 2010 at 8:45 pm Mags

That’s it. I quit hockey.

HELLOOOO SUMMER!
on June 9, 2010 at 8:46 pm Pookie

Heh, thanks, Mags!

Pookie is VERY dedicated to her hatred of Jamie Langenbrunner. Heh.

I am. I’m as dedicated to that as Jamie Langenbrunner is to sucking at hockey.
on June 9, 2010 at 8:53 pm Mags

I’m as dedicated to that as Jamie Langenbrunner is to sucking at hockey.

Someone poured beer down my neck because I was ragging on Langer during the IIHF tourney.

I still don’t get why. I mean, the guy was wearing a Rangers jersey. Why the heck is he getting mad with me for naming Jamie as my current lightning rod of hate?
on June 9, 2010 at 8:53 pm Schnookie

That’s it. I quit hockey.

HELLOOOO SUMMER!

Wait, you’re only getting around to this now??? :P
on June 9, 2010 at 8:54 pm Mags

Although I have to say, Byfuglien is doing his damndest to replace Langer.
on June 9, 2010 at 8:54 pm Kathleen

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

I’m so glad there are other people who can’t stand those kids.
on June 9, 2010 at 8:54 pm Mags

Wait, you’re only getting around to this now??? :P

I WAS IN IT FOR FARTER!

*smallvoice*andcarcillo
on June 9, 2010 at 8:55 pm Mags

We don’t have a single Pizza Hut franchise in this country (how I know? I co-reffed a paper about the way their marketing failed), so I will mercifully never see this “it’s ok to lose” ad.
on June 9, 2010 at 8:59 pm Schnookie

I WAS IN IT FOR FARTER!

*smallvoice*andcarcillo

You don’t have to use a small voice there. I totally heart my trannies, even the venal ones! There’s no shame in loving the gross ones. (Pookie and I had one of our rambling, hockey-ish comp-day lunches the other day, which is traditionally where our blog ideas get cooked up [not surprisingly, it's been months since we had one], and we decided that we’re really tired of the way bloggers the blogosphere over codify sports fandom. Like, for example, the dumb “jersey fouls” shit. Who’s to say what’s right and wrong with being a sports fan? You wanna love Dan Carcillo, go right ahead! :D)
on June 9, 2010 at 9:00 pm Kathleen

Mags, he was wearing a Rangers jersey. What else do you need to know?
on June 9, 2010 at 9:01 pm Schnookie

so I will mercifully never see this “it’s ok to lose” ad.

Heh. Frankly, I view this as a statement about the current state of things in America. Since when is it okay to lose in Little League??? What is UO with that? I’m appalled.
on June 9, 2010 at 9:11 pm Mags

he was wearing a Rangers jersey. What else do you need to know?

Good point.

Who’s to say what’s right and wrong with being a sports fan? You wanna love Dan Carcillo, go right ahead!

WHEEEEE! Well, I kinda love that gap-toothed troglodyte, so there.

I do enjoy jersey fouls though. Not because they’re wrong, but I like seeing what people come up with.
on June 9, 2010 at 9:13 pm Schnookie

Not because they’re wrong, but I like seeing what people come up with.

I love looking at the crazy-assed shit you can see on personalized sweaters at games — it’s one of my favorite things about going to hockey games. It bugs the hell out of me, then, to be calling them “fouls”. What the hell? It’s called self-expression, people! :P
on June 9, 2010 at 9:15 pm Tim

We don’t have a single Pizza Hut franchise in this country (how I know? I co-reffed a paper about the way their marketing failed), so I will mercifully never see this “it’s ok to lose” ad.

That’s good. If Pizza Hut won sponsorship of Ajax, the world’s best jersey would be ruined forever.
on June 9, 2010 at 9:22 pm Mags

It’s called self-expression, people! :P

Agreed! Besides, I got into hockey because I wanted to be a big time NHL player (knowing full well, at 6, that I was never going to be one on account of the chesticles in my future). My name on that jersey was a dream. Couple of weeks ago, I saw a kid getting lambasted for having his own name on a Flames jersey. But honestly people, what can make you feel better, and more connected, than putting your own name on your team’s fancy jersey? Nothing I can think of. So eff off haters.

Although if you want to get argumentative about it, at the time I got said MyName sweater, my sister and I went by my Mother’s name, and there’s an NHL player with the same name, but he never did play for the team who’s jersey we got it put on.
on June 9, 2010 at 9:26 pm Amy

It’s called self-expression, people!

I object to the chica I saw at a Sabres game with a “Mrs. Miller” jersey. That was just wrong on SO many levels.
on June 9, 2010 at 9:27 pm Mags

That was just wrong on SO many levels.

Nah. Belled the cat.
on June 9, 2010 at 9:27 pm Schnookie

But honestly people, what can make you feel better, and more connected, than putting your own name on your team’s fancy jersey? Nothing I can think of. So eff off haters.

Right on, sister! I certainly get feeling superior, or having your own personal set of rules for how you would personalize sweaters, but the beginning of the end for me with Puck Daddy was the Jersey Fouls thing. Can’t we all just get along?
on June 9, 2010 at 9:29 pm Schnookie

I object to the chica I saw at a Sabres game with a “Mrs. Miller” jersey. That was just wrong on SO many levels.

:^:::::::::::::::::::::::: That one’s an old standard, though. I would never wear something like that, but hey — if that’s what gets a gal to watch the sport, good for her for being honest about it, right? :P
on June 9, 2010 at 9:39 pm Amy

if that’s what gets a gal to watch the sport, good for her for being honest about it, right?

I guess.

And my last name is the same as a character from Major League, so my dad has an Indians jersey with his name on it. I think that would probably get written up by the jersey foul police based on some of the ish they catch.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:02 pm Tim

A lot of people have my last name, but I don’t think there are any good athletes in this country with it, just a pile of Welsh rugby players.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:05 pm kristin

So hey, what’s going on tonight?
on June 9, 2010 at 10:09 pm Mags

So hey, what’s going on tonight?

I’m making cinnamon rolls. At 4 am. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:10 pm Patty (in Dallas)

What the hell? It’s called self-expression, people! :P

Exactly! I don’t have any problem with whatever you want to put on a jersey. Just like art, there’s some I like and some I don’t like, but I don’t begrudge the expression.

I like that some of the victims of the jersey police seem to enjoy being singled out, so I hope it diffuses the snootiness somewhat. Although I don’t know if anything can diffuse Puck Daddy’s snootiness.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:10 pm Tim

Cimmanim rolls aren’t a 4 am food, pamkakes are.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:12 pm Schnookie

So hey, what’s going on tonight?

Heh. I’m watching Walker, Texas Ranger. We watched the first two periods of the game in kind of sullen silence, then, when we turned this on, became much more animated. I am DEFINITELY done with hockey for the summer. Which is a good thing, I guess, because it seems hockey is done with hockey too. :P
on June 9, 2010 at 10:14 pm Schnookie

Although I don’t know if anything can diffuse Puck Daddy’s snootiness.

:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: It seems a strange crowd to be so full of arch superiority, too. Like, REALLY? Since when is the Yahoo commentariat the arbiter of good taste? :P
on June 9, 2010 at 10:14 pm Schnookie

Oh, and I have to add — Mmmmm… cinnamon rolls.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:16 pm Schnookie

Oh, and Patty, I have to say — at first when you asked about Walker’s wig, I was like, “Really? That’s a wig?” But now that we’ve hit the later seasons, it is VERY wiggish. So thanks for warning me. :D
on June 9, 2010 at 10:18 pm Mags

Cimmanim rolls aren’t a 4 am food, pamkakes are.

It isn’t 4 am food. It’s breakfast.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:21 pm kristin

mmmm, cinnamon rolls.

Also, someone totally plagiarized your Langenbrunner bit on Twitter.

jjburnett82 You know, I’m pretty sure that kid in the Pizza Hut losing commercial is a young Jamie Langenbrunner #NoImNotBitterWhyDoYouAsk
on June 9, 2010 at 10:23 pm Schnookie

Also, someone totally plagiarized your Langenbrunner bit on Twitter.

Just what I needed — another reason to hate Twitter.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:26 pm Mags

Imitation, flattery, blablabla.

But Josh dearest, that IS fairly lame.

Also, if that is who I think it is, dude has a Ravelry account because he likes to keep up with what the knitters are saying about ITB. Which has no bearing on the situation at all, just something I suddenly remembered.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:27 pm Mags

I wonder if he plagiarises our collective genius Pronger stuff. I don’t read ITB, so I have no idea.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:29 pm Patty (in Dallas)

o thanks for warning me. :D

It was probably the later years I was thinking of. :D
on June 9, 2010 at 10:30 pm Tim

It isn’t 4 am food. It’s breakfast.

Utter tosh. Breakfast isn’t until noon.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:32 pm Pookie

Twitter is trying to woo me and thinks that stealing my brainstuffs is the way to do it. It’s wrong.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:37 pm Amy

Don’t these effers know I have to work tomorrow morning? What is this tying it up nonsense? It’s great for hockey, but bad for me.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:38 pm Tim

Twitter is trying to woo me and thinks that stealing my brainstuffs is the way to do it. It’s wrong.

Works for zombies.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:49 pm Kathleen

All right then, Flyers.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:50 pm Mags

After spending an entire day whining to myself on Twitter, I’m kind of no longer interested in it.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:56 pm Tim

I still don’t understand Twitter, but I have to do it for work.
on June 9, 2010 at 10:58 pm Schnookie

I suspect I can’t access twitter from work. I… can’t say I’ve checked.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:08 pm Tim

Nooooooo!!!! I wanted Hossa to cry!
on June 9, 2010 at 11:08 pm Mags

Blergh.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:09 pm Meg

I suspect I can’t access twitter from work. I… can’t say I’ve checked.

I know I can. Because people at my work (not me) are required to tweet.

Also, I just found myself really happy for Brian Campbell. What the heck? I didn’t even like him when he was a Sabre.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:11 pm Pookie

Well, bring on the World Cup!
on June 9, 2010 at 11:12 pm Mags

You know what this means though?

I’ve won my playoffs pool :D
on June 9, 2010 at 11:14 pm kristin

I have a tiny crush on Toews. Is that so wrong?
on June 9, 2010 at 11:15 pm Tim

I got silver in the Frisby Bowl!!!!!
on June 9, 2010 at 11:17 pm Pookie

Sorry about the Flyers, Kristin!
on June 9, 2010 at 11:19 pm Patty (in Dallas)

I’m glad Hossa got it. Now maybe people will move onto some other lame joke for a while.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:20 pm Tim

Duncan Keith looks like a crusty old prospector, like Pipper from Final Sacrifice.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:20 pm kristin

Pookie, all that matters to me is that the Penguins lost. Everything else was icing. Honest!
on June 9, 2010 at 11:20 pm Pookie

Well, then, I’m glad the Penguins lost, Kristin! :D
on June 9, 2010 at 11:21 pm Patty (in Dallas)

Sorry about the Flyers, Kristin!

Same here, Kristin!

And sorry about the Trannies, Pookie and Schnookie.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:22 pm Schnookie

all that matters to me is that the Penguins lost. Everything else was icing. Honest!

It’s been a pretty good Spring for you, then! :D

I’m glad Hossa got it. Now maybe people will move onto some other lame joke for a while.

I agree! I can’t wait to find out what lazy lame joke will take its place.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:22 pm Schnookie

And sorry about the Trannies, Pookie and Schnookie.

Heh. Thanks. I needed that, because I’m devastated. :P
on June 9, 2010 at 11:27 pm Tim

HAHAHAHAHA HE’S CRYING!
on June 9, 2010 at 11:28 pm Tim

That came out rather rude.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:37 pm Mags

Does anyone want icing on their cinnamon rolls?
on June 9, 2010 at 11:37 pm Tim

You have the rolls, I’ll take the icing.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:38 pm Tim

For those of you who weren’t watching the hockey (Hi Ookies!), it wasn’t a player crying, but one of the NBC studio dudes.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:39 pm Mags

Sorry honey, it doesn’t work that way.

BECAUSE YEAH, IT’S ALL ABOUT JR.
on June 9, 2010 at 11:50 pm Tim

Oh dear god, that was Roenick crying? Gracious me.
on June 10, 2010 at 8:49 am Amy

I had changed the channel by that point, so can anyone tell me why Roenick was so verklempt?

I’m happy for Kane and Soupy.
on June 10, 2010 at 9:26 am Meg

I had changed the channel by that point, so can anyone tell me why Roenick was so verklempt?

I too had changed the channel, but the only reason I can imagine is that it was because he started his career in Chicago…
on June 10, 2010 at 9:50 am Morgan

JR actually had the best line of the night when he got all choked up. To massively paraphrase, he said that he remembered a little kid he saw in the stands who was crying when the Hawks got swept by the Pens in ’92 and JR hoped that kid had a big smile on his face all these 18 years later.
on June 10, 2010 at 11:08 am Pookie

Aw, that’s sweet, Morgan!

Based on what I watched last night, I’d have to assume JR was crying because — spoiler alert! — Walker proposed to Alex. Heh.

If you want a little chuckle today, Google “World Cup”, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page where it gives you the option to go to more pages of results.
on June 10, 2010 at 11:16 am Kathleen

Aww, cute, Google.
on June 10, 2010 at 11:43 am SueNJ97

Someone poured beer down my neck because I was ragging on Langer during the IIHF tourney.

I still don’t get why. I mean, the guy was wearing a Rangers jersey. Why the heck is he getting mad with me for naming Jamie as my current lightning rod of hate?

I can explain this. There are two reasons. And you have to keep in mind that Ranger fans almost never watch Devils’ games unless NJ is playing the Rangers, so they have no idea what’s actually goinjg on with the team. They just think they do.

1. Ranger fans – for the most part, except those who are not from the U.S. – were rooting for the U.S. in the Olympics and see Jaime as the ‘Captain America’ of the Olympics (or, as a few of them described him, “a beast”) and they can’t see how he could be anything else or, in fact, be at fault for anything that might have gone wrong with NJ.

2. Most of them really, really hate Marty. There are some who hate him but grudgingly admit that he’s had a fantastic career and it wasn’t the system. But, they want to believe that this year’s fiasco was his fault and nobody else’s – and for you to blame Jaime for any part of it ruins their fantasy.
on June 10, 2010 at 12:26 pm Mags

I had to go to the google.com page (as opposed to the .nl version is automatically routes you to here) to see it. That IS cute!

And Sue has the answers! Excellent!
on June 10, 2010 at 1:37 pm Amy

If you also want a laugh, enter “Google won’t” into the search box and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
on June 10, 2010 at 1:58 pm Mags

*grin* Oh google. You’re so spunky.

And taking over every aspect of our intertube lives, which I honestly find just maybe a little bit creepy.
on June 10, 2010 at 2:07 pm Pookie

Amy, that’s awesome!

Less awesome? I had this exchange at work.

Me: I am SO excited for the World Cup!

Co-worker: What’s the world cup?
on June 10, 2010 at 2:18 pm Meg

Me: I am SO excited for the World Cup!

Co-worker: What’s the world cup?

Well their summer will just be sad and empty won’t it.
on June 10, 2010 at 2:37 pm Pookie

Exactly, Meg! I tried to sell her on it from the “no, really, the players are really, really, really hawt” but she seemed doubtful. :D
on June 10, 2010 at 2:40 pm Meg

I tried to sell her on it from the “no, really, the players are really, really, really hawt” but she seemed doubtful. :D

At least you tried! Last week am New York had a front cover that said “Soccer Gets Sexy” or something similar and had a hot players guide inside. I was like, “oh am New York, you and I are so on the same page.”
on June 10, 2010 at 2:56 pm Pookie

I saw that on Haul Your Paper Boats and it cracked me up!
on June 10, 2010 at 3:52 pm Mike in Idaho

I’m a little late but great post, I saw that commercial but didn’t come up with anything genius like at all! I presumed Pizza Hut was making a damning statement of today’s America where if you fail, you get bailed out because that is the sort of cultural commentary I expect from my Pizza Hut commercials. And thank God for the World Cup which will distract me from the problem of me not seeing how the Devils are going to improve this offseason. And congrats Mcguffers on the Frisby Bowl win, don’t forget to have a big parade with your championship trophy!
on June 10, 2010 at 4:19 pm Pookie

not seeing how the Devils are going to improve this offseason.

What, you don’t think hiring John MacLean or Michel Therrien is going to help? (BARF!)

I hope Montreal is rioting for mcguffers’ win!
on June 10, 2010 at 4:29 pm carolbrowne

If you also want a laugh, enter “Google won’t” into the search box and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

Hahahahaheheheheheheeee So AWESOME!

Thanks Amy!
on June 10, 2010 at 4:43 pm Kathleen

If you also want a laugh, enter “Google won’t” into the search box and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

That is AWESOME. Are Google and IPB on the same page or what?!??
on June 10, 2010 at 4:46 pm Kathleen

I accidentally took a big gulp of ammonia-flavored air about 20 minutes ago and I’m still feeling dizzy and sick. Whoopsies.
on June 11, 2010 at 4:08 pm Mags

I’m bored out of my gourd.
on June 11, 2010 at 5:16 pm Tim

That France-Uruguay game was a serious let down after the South Africa-Mexico game. Stupid Mexicans, going over there, tying up scores when they should be over here stealing our jobs.
on June 11, 2010 at 6:43 pm Grrrreg

Woooohoooo first game and France already got a SHUTOUT!!!! Muahahaha, suck it Uruguay! Hand us the cup already, there’s no point playing a full month of football for nothing!

Wait, this isn’t hockey anymore?? You mean we sucked?!
Sigh.
on June 11, 2010 at 8:44 pm Schnookie

LALALALALALALALALA!!! I’m not listening to anything anyone is saying! We’re on tivo delay (and will be for most of the WC), so I guess it’s radio silence for us on weekdays. :D