Thursday, November 11, 2010

A Brief Explanation of the Name, and URL...

As mentioned in the most exciting post you'll ever see on this blog, there are many blogs by the name "Puttin' On The Foil." Seriously, do a google search and you'll find one for just about every NHL team. Now why might that be? Well, probably because Slapshot is one of the greatest hockey movies ever made*, and besides which, it is also one of the most quotable**. I believe we rented Slapshot around the time of my first NHL game. All I know is, the movie was instantly a favorite, and still remains one of my favorite movies, which is rare (usually I get tired of movies pretty quickly). Anyhow, back to the whole there are a million blogs by this title idea. Basically, the URLs featuring the simple line puttinonthefoil or puttingonthefoil or a number of different variations were all taken, so I resorted to my second favorite one-liner line from the movie: When Steve Hanson tells the ref he's listening to the anthem. Yes, I did leave a word out of the quotation when I typed it up for the URL. That was intentional.


*Not a debatable point.
**Even less of a debatable point

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