Drunk Jets fan calls 911, demanding team's return

This is one of the strangest stories you'll read on the net today. A Lundar, Manitoba hockey fan dialed 911 multiple times in an effort to convince the RCMP to bring the Jets back to Winnipeg.

From the Winnipeg Free Press:

The emergency dispatcher politely told the angry caller there was nothing she could do to help him and reminded him that he was tying up a valuable resource before hanging up. But the man continued to phone back, claiming he had a lot on his mind.

How did this end?

The final straw came when the man began insulting the 911 operator, eventually calling her a crude name. She warned him that his number had been traced and police were being sent out to arrest him.

"If you’re coming to get me, can you bring me some smokes," was his reply.

A related story has a Toronto fan calling emergency dispatch demanding Brian Burke trade for a top-line centreman. Winnipeg should really count their blessings, knowing their shot at a Stanley Cup is just as good as Toronto's this year.

Bob McKenzie is hi-lar-ious when (drunk?) on vacation.

It's hard to criticize Bob McKenzie. Him and Darren Dreger make the best investigative journalism team in hockey. McKenzie, sometimes to his credit, sometimes not, is a more active user of the Internet. This is not one of those times.

McKenzie left the Rogers Centre for a Bon Jovi/Kid Rock double bill with some thoughts about the Ilya Kovalchuk saga, and a belly (we can only assume) full of beer:



[@TSNBobMcKenzie]

Actually, this doesn't really fall under 'criticism' so much as it does under 'awesome'. McKenzie is more of a reporter and a story-breaker than a writer, making it even more upsetting when he comes up with better lines than I do.

Blue Bombers ban the beer snake

Well here's a mini-controversy piling up like empty beer cups over rows.



After the first two games of the season (both at home) saw Blue Bomber fans stack their empty watered-down Molson cups up rows and rows of seats, the team had to respond.

Unfortunately, the Winnipeg Football Club continues to face new challenges with respect to unruly and/or disorderly behavior in the stadium facility during the course of game day. Specifically, this behavior relates to the “beer snake” concept. Regretfully, we witnessed the beer cups being thrown at the conclusion of our home game of July 9th which resulted in several minor injuries to our fans as well as many emails and communications to our office voicing concern and displeasure from our fans.

[BlueBombers.com]

There's probably good reason to ban it. According to the CBC article, the beer snake spanned 30 rows. I'm not a mathemagician, but if we conservatively estimate that a row of seats is a yard long (we're not accounting for incline or the curve of the cups) and it's about five cups to an inch of beer snake, then we're looking at a minimum 5400 cups located in one super-drunk area of the stadium to be used as ammunition when your team loses at home to Toronto.

[Bombers respond to beer snake incident - National Post]