Sunday, July 26, 2009

Be A Player Upper Deck Autographs-08-09



I tried another pack of BAP cards at my favorite hobby shop yesterday. :( First pull was Bryan Allen of the Florida Panthers, second pack was Manny Malhotra of the Columbus Blue Jackets. My first pull two weeks ago was a Luke Schenn. hmmm...Hey never dis an authentic autograph!


Saturday, July 25, 2009

Patrick "The Predator" Cote UFC Fighter IP





My wife and I did our usual Saturday routine, garage sale to see what we could find. 100 golf balls for $10, cool. I heard on the radio that Patrick Cote, a MMA UFC fighter was appearing at a MMA clothing store from 11:00-1:00. We were only about 5 mins from the mall and it was time for lunch. I know who's who in the UFC, partly because of the sports lover in me and partly due to my students, who are genuine UFC freaks. Patrick suffered a horrible knee injury fighting Anderson Silva in UFC 90. He's been rehabbing for the last few months so he had several appearances in our city this weekend. There were a few people in the store and Patrick was standing at the counter reading a catalog (that has some of his clothing line in). I bought two pictures of him, $5.00 each (not bad) and he walked over to us and signed them, personalizing both. I asked for a picture with him. He was really cool, even knowing where the best picture would be.
We had a really nice chat and he was really polite, great guy. He did spell my name incorrect, but I was not going to argue with him! Check out this youtube link, we decided he could kill me in 10 seconds! LOL
Here's his stats from UFC.com
Born Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Fighting out of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Age 29
Height 5' 11" (180 cm)
Weight 185 lbs. (84 kg)
Overall MMA Record (W-L-D) 14-5-0
Strengths
KO Power, submission skills

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Kyle Calder signed LA Kings #9


Just forgot about this one, Kyle signed it at the Jarret Stoll thing this year. Jersey coming this week, got it by mistake from my Stoll jersey kit, so I made good use of it I guess.