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August 27, 2011
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
I thought I'd never see an old style centre forward playing in the top leagues again.
After the game against Chelsea yesterday, I have developed an unnatural and unhealthy man-crush on Norwich City's Grant Holt.
posted by owlhouse at 04:46 AM on August 28, 2011
So to speak.
posted by owlhouse at 04:47 AM on August 28, 2011
Meet Jeb Corliss the winged man
That was weird. On the very day you posted that, rcade, having never been in Switzerland before in my life, I was sitting next to that very lake looking up at those very mountains thinking "That's the kind of place those lunatics would jump off in the flying-squirrel suits". I ordered another beer and resolved to have a look on YouTube when I got home, but then promptly forgot my resolution. Once again, SportsFilter keeps me pointed in the right direction.
posted by JJ at 08:00 AM on August 29, 2011
JJ, if you're al fresco, best to keep your eyes pointed skyward and your wits about you. The fellow could come swooping along, singe your brow, snatch your brau, and take out your Campari umbrella.
posted by beaverboard at 09:31 AM on August 29, 2011
Gotta love serendipity. What kind of beer?
posted by rcade at 10:58 AM on August 29, 2011
Feldschlosschen - delicious and gladly unswooped. The only extreme sport I did witness was some cycling; complete nutters bouncing up mountain roads it was exhausting me just to drive over.
posted by JJ at 12:56 PM on August 29, 2011
I just added a beverage and a set of GPS coordinates to my bucket list.
posted by beaverboard at 01:36 PM on August 29, 2011
Here's a quick reference video to see exactly how fast that Corliss was flying.
posted by NoMich at 01:51 PM on August 29, 2011
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd...
posted by lil_brown_bat at 04:30 PM on August 29, 2011
You jest, bat, but it is nigh on impossible to drive around there without that cursed song in your head at all times. I bet Corliss was singing it to himself even as he plummeted from the sky.
posted by JJ at 05:43 AM on August 30, 2011
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd...
Wrong country, l_b_b, the Trapp family was from Austria. The scenery is similar, and it's actually not that far from Switzerland.
posted by Howard_T at 01:11 PM on August 30, 2011
Meet Jeb Corliss the winged man.