Saturday, April 19, 2008

Das Nutzenfest with Pierre McGuire

Let's take a break from Caps fans' bellyaching about Flyers favoritism by the NBC broadcast team to point something out.

Upon taking notice that the fans in the Phone Booth in D.C. were booing Daniel Briere every time he touched the puck, Pierre McGuire and Mike Milbury wondered aloud why he was the target of such ill humour.

Um... maybe because he'd scored five goals in the first four games of the series?

As game action continued, they abandoned the topic, and approximately one Briere shift later, a light bulb appeared over McGuire's shiny pate. Doc Emrick threw it rinkside for our pal Petey, who posited the following:

"They're booing because last year Briere checked Ovechkin from behind into the open bench door."

Well, this passed muster with Milbury -- he had some vague recollection of some incident like this -- and credit Dr. Pierre McGuire with a universal mystery decoded!




Um... It was Ovechkin who checked Briere from behind into the open bench door.

They're booing because Briere scored five goals in the first four games of the series, tartwhacker.

McGuire's mouth has now officially lapped his brain -- it's one thing to overestimate the size of the Orange & Black Traveling Road Show, quite another to get this incident bass-ackward and blame Briere for a fairly horrid transgression of which he was the victim, not the perpetrator. What, was he askin' for it?

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1 comments:

mattymatty said...

Briere got booed because he's been the Flyers best player in this series. I'm sure some Caps fans remember that incident (or incidentS, as Briere made sure to spear Ovechkin in the nards the next time the teams met), but the salient point is that Pierre McGuire is clearly a moron. Mike Milbury ain't the biggest dildo in the porno store either (though he clearly is a dildo).

However, in fairness, it must be difficult to remember details with giant blue nards hanging from your chin.