I didn't think I should post this in the NHL thread because it has nothing to do with current Hockey, if I'm wrong I hope the MODS will adjust it. FOCUS: If you were a member of the current Championship Hockey team what would you do with The Stanley Cup if you had it for just one day? I know Mario Lemieux let his kids play with it in the pool. (wouldn't that be bad for it??) I can't remember who specifically, but someone from the Rangers (you know this was a LONG TIME ago) brought it on the Howard Stern show and Jackie "The Jokeman" Martling took a deuce in it. I (having zero creativity) would bring it to a strip club. A really sweet one like The Purple Rhino in Vegas. There I would let hot strippers sip champagne out of it while I fondled them, I would probably make them try and hold it over their head while I slapped their ass as well.
I just gagged. Whoever that was on the Rangers should be fired from life, that's terrible. If I had it for a day, I don't know, something like bring it to the mountain and jib off it all day, and fill it with hot cocoa and shnapps for apres ski. Even after knowing someone dookied in it I'd still have to drink out of it. That, or do the classy thing and bring it to my home rink for all the kids, and hopefully they have some single mothers.
Might as well add this: 10 Cup Stories. Highlights: Messier took it to a strip club, Phil Bourque takes it in the river and discovers it does not float, and Draper's daughter poops in it. There's a ton more you can find using Google. I remember hearing Brodeur ate popcorn out of it and the butter tarnished the metal. For some reason I want to say someone let their dog eat/drink out of it too. Focus: I would basically do one of my normal days and just take it with me everywhere I go. It'd accompany me to my favorite dive bars. I think I'd also have a big cookout in my backyard and invite all my friends and family.
I've always thought that one of the coolest jobs on the planet would be to be the guy that has to escort the cup everywhere it goes. Just IMAGINE all the stories that guy must have. He should write a book.
I for one, wouldn't eat or drink anything out of it since at least two people (in the first 3 posts of the thread) have shit in it.
WEAK! In 1995 they really tightened up the rules to keep it respectful, so no casinos and no strip joints anymore. I mean if your not a family man all you can really do is have parties so people can come look at it. If I was Chelios or one of the big hockey celebrities I would make some playboy bunny's bathe Verne Troyer in it. I want to go down in history with the fuckin thing.
I'm not much of the volunteer/charity type, but in this case I would absolutely make the exception... 1) From whenever I get back home with the cup to 12 PM = Fundraiser including autographs/pics with cup for something local. Andy McDonald of the Ducks did this back in 2007 at my cousin's hometown in Hamilton, NY (he played college at local Colgate) and raised some serious dough for some charity. 2) After lunch, a two or three hour ball hockey tourney with all the kids to see who could win and raise the Cup. 3) 3/4 PM - start partying drinking with the family and friends. 4) Bang whoever the wife/girlfriend/some whore I picked up because I'm carrying the thing around with it in the bedroom. Attempt to incorporate it into action (raising the cup while getting a BJ, anyone?). 5) Apparently, let something or someone take a shit in it. God damnit, I should have tried harder in high school hockey.
Is it me or are men in general just ridiculous? I guess because of the shape and size of the cup every guy automatically thinks it would be funny to shit in it, or let someone shit in it. I admit that I have laughed out loud at both Zyron's post and LBH's, I'm thirty four and just cracked up at poop jokes. Way too go Mike real mature.
ESPN has a story about the cup chaperone. It's pretty bland, but he does say that he gives the Cup a shower every day, so it's probably relatively safe to drink out of.
Focus: I would fill it with Hendricks gin, pop in a straw, and sip it from the comfort of my recliner while watching a Bored to Death marathon.
Somewhat off-topic, but related, there is a story about one of the Tottenham Hotspur players (Ossie Ardiles) throwing/dropping the FA Cup in the dressing room & denting it badly enough that the FA had to replace the trophy after the final in 1981.
I'd spend at least the first hour trying to bribe the cup-keeper guy to let me do stuff with the cup that I'm not allowed to do. Then, I'd take it around town with me and pretend that it's a person for the rest of the day. I'd insist that people refer to it as "R2" and that it be served food and drinks at every meal. At the end of the night, I'd have the cup driven back to my house. Unbeknownst to the cup-keeper, I've had an exact replica of the cup built, and I have my friends run in circles and all through the house, trading them off repeatedly until none of us have any idea which cup is the real one. Honestly, I'd get bored with doing the standard cup stuff after me and my friends/family had a chance to get our pictures made with it, so I'd focus all of my energy on fucking with the guy responsible for keeping me from doing anything stupid.