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Ebenezer
03-14-2005, 09:48 AM
I got to skip my first game ever on Friday night...we were on a sheet with brand new rocks and they were curling like mad...quick recap...

Last rock - 1st end: I was sitting second stone, the opposing skip chips my rock out to score 5! Great shot.

2nd end: I drew around 4 rocks to just touch the button and score 1.

We kept on going back and forth...we ended up losing 8-3 (6 ends). That first end killed us. Our vice missed both of his shots and their skip made a great shot to kick mine out...Think I might sign up to be a Vice next year...I usually second or vice.

I took Eb Jr. Friday. He got to throw the little rocks before and after and had a blast. He even throw a couple of the big stones and got one to the hog line...he couldn't get out of the hack though...

I see Ferby's rink won again! Amazing. I don't have canadian TV any more so missed the final. Did you get a chance to go this weekend?
clumping platelets
03-14-2005, 09:58 AM
:dizzy:
northernbillfan
03-14-2005, 10:36 AM
We tried to get tickets to the fina, but we would have been sitting way up in the nose bleeds, so we opted to watch it on Tee Vee.

Adams made a huge mistake in the 8th when he could have made a triple, but decided on T-line weight instead of hack weight. It caused him to leave two of the three he was trying to take out.

Ferby scored one to tie, then blanked the ninth having the hammer in the final. Nedohin only had to draw four foot for the win. Ferby played the better game and deserved the win. Too bad because I was cheering for Adams.

We did go to the big beer gardens on Friday night and met some of the curlers from Ontario, Newfoundland and Alberta. It was a great party.
northernbillfan
03-14-2005, 10:38 AM
Iliked on of the TV ads that was running during the Brier which said "They say football is a game of inches." It then showed someone drawing to the button in between two stones with millimetres on each side. They then said "I wish we had inches"

Great ad.
clumping platelets
03-14-2005, 10:44 AM
"I wish we had inches"


Sounds like something "Pee Wee" Herman would say :chuckle:
Ebenezer
03-14-2005, 11:18 AM
We tried to get tickets to the fina, but we would have been sitting way up in the nose bleeds, so we opted to watch it on Tee Vee.

Adams made a huge mistake in the 8th when he could have made a triple, but decided on T-line weight instead of hack weight. It caused him to leave two of the three he was trying to take out.

Ferby scored one to tie, then blanked the ninth having the hammer in the final. Nedohin only had to draw four foot for the win. Ferby played the better game and deserved the win. Too bad because I was cheering for Adams.

We did go to the big beer gardens on Friday night and met some of the curlers from Ontario, Newfoundland and Alberta. It was a great party.
The T of H is in London, Ont. next year...might be an idea just to drive up for a day...don't forsee a tournament ever getting closer to Buffalo than that.
clumping platelets
03-14-2005, 11:26 AM
The T of H is in London, Ont. next year...might be an idea just to drive up for a day...don't forsee a tournament ever getting closer to Buffalo than that.


ROAD TRIP!!
Ebenezer
03-14-2005, 11:31 AM
ROAD TRIP!!
and! it's the ladies tournament!! :naughty:
Forward_Lateral
03-14-2005, 11:35 AM
London? Cool, I live about an hour and a half from there.

P.S. Did you guys watch the Brier final last night? What a match! When Alberta cleared their own rock in the 9th instead of drawing for 2, that took pure sack.
RetroRaiders81
03-14-2005, 11:36 AM
What a fun looking sport, honestly i'd love to play it. I had fun with it on a Olympics game.
Forward_Lateral
03-14-2005, 11:40 AM
What a fun looking sport, honestly i'd love to play it. I had fun with it on a Olympics game.

It looks so easy too, when I first tried it, I threw the rock so damn hard, I nearly killed the skip lol. The next one was a hog.
Ebenezer
03-14-2005, 11:53 AM
London? Cool, I live about an hour and a half from there.

As do most of us in the Buffalo area...


What a fun looking sport, honestly i'd love to play it. I had fun with it on a Olympics game.

I really should see if there is interest in having a BillsZone curling party next year.
Ebenezer
03-14-2005, 11:53 AM
It looks so easy too, when I first tried it, I threw the rock so damn hard, I nearly killed the skip lol. The next one was a hog.
sometimes you got to have a strong take out!
northernbillfan
03-14-2005, 11:58 AM
London? Cool, I live about an hour and a half from there.

P.S. Did you guys watch the Brier final last night? What a match! When Alberta cleared their own rock in the 9th instead of drawing for 2, that took pure sack.
If he didn't blank the ninth, Nova Scotia would have the hammer and an edge.
Ebenezer
03-14-2005, 12:07 PM
If he didn't blank the ninth, Nova Scotia would have the hammer and an edge.
always is an advantage to have the hammer in the last end...

we were down by 6 on Friday and I had 6 rocks in play, 5 in the rings and I had a chance with my final stone to hit rock that was lying 2nd shot out and stay and score 4...just missed...if it had worked out better I might have been able to get the 6...very long shot though.
ticatfan
03-14-2005, 02:08 PM
as soon as adams screwed up in the 8th , I knew he was done.
Ebenezer
03-14-2005, 02:15 PM
as soon as adams screwed up in the 8th , I knew he was done.
There are a few days every year I miss CBC...yesterday was one of them.
ticatfan
03-14-2005, 02:54 PM
There are a few days every year I miss CBC...yesterday was one of them.So you did not get to see the final?
Ebenezer
03-16-2005, 07:52 AM
So you did not get to see the final?
nope...I only heard about it on the radio in the car.
OpIv37
03-16-2005, 08:04 AM
I don't know what possessed me to read this entire thread, but couldn't understand a word of it- these Canadians must be writing in French or something.
Ebenezer
03-16-2005, 08:06 AM
I don't know what possessed me to read this entire thread, but couldn't understand a word of it- these Canadians must be writing in French or something.
:shakeno: Alberta is not French
OpIv37
03-16-2005, 08:09 AM
:shakeno: Alberta is not French

but Alberta is in Canada and one of the two national languages there is French, even if most people there don't speak it.
ticatfan
03-16-2005, 08:13 AM
The canada cup for curling is this week.
Ebenezer
03-16-2005, 08:16 AM
but Alberta is in Canada and one of the two national languages there is French, even if most people there don't speak it.

very few people outside of Quebec speak it...


The canada cup for curling is this week.

is it on CBC?