Loved this whole story. After thinking about it for a while, I figured that Foster was probably going to get an NHL record for highest "career save percentage".

1) The contract that the emergency goalies sign makes them official NHL professional athletes for a day.
2) He came in and made 7 shots on 7 saves, a 100% save percentage.
3) Official player, official stats earned, yet extremely unlikely that he'll ever see another minute of ice time or shot against ... therefore, into the record books.

I looked at NHL stats page and a few other sources to try to figure out if that was correct, but everything I looked at limited "Career Save Percentage" stats to players with a high minimum number of games.

Then I saw this story:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/blackhawks-emergency-goalie-scott-foster-accountant-jets/

Confirms that YES, he'll be in the records books, but he'll be tied with 17 other guys all having a 100% save percentage (after having faced between 1-17 shots).

So even though he's tied with 17 other guys, dude is set for life for a story to tell his kids / grandkids / strangers in the bar:

"So yeah, I'm a former NHL goalie. Retired with a career save percentage better than Brodeur or Roy. Left the game literally at the top of the charts."


I think Patrick Kane and/or Jonathan Toews should give their salary from this one game to the guy since the contract he signed precludes the team from paying him... (both make $10.5 million for this season, so 1/82 of that would be a bit over $125k)

When I was working at NASA/Ames on Moffett Field in California, Clinton came to give a speech in Mountain View. Being the closest military airfield, Air Force One landed there. We expected a motorcade to close the base down but he ended up taking a helicopter. Just like in the video, two Blackhawks (which were a common sight on Moffett, but not usually green) lifted off and flew really fast and low away towards Mountain View.

AF1 stayed overnight, and had floodlights positioned all around it so that nobody could sneak up unnoticed. We were on the other side of a chain link fence near the blimp hanger, but we got within a few hundred meters of the plane. Really neat.

Like the SR72 Blackhawk, these dogs need a large area to live in, for much the same reason.

This video has been discussed on several pilot forums. People have pointed out that this also looks like a failed go-around without adding appropriate power. If the pilot was near stall when he pulled up, and the left wing stalled first, this is exactly what would happen. Very scary if that much turbulence can stick around for that long after a Blackhawk has departed.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.asp

>> ^Bad-Wolf:

4:35 Guys scuba diving in lake gets picked up.
5:40 Guy waving and yelling WTF!!
5:48 Guy gets dumped into fire.

Blackhawk Drown

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EXCELLENT find @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/mintbbb" title="member since April 30th, 2008" class="profilelink"><strong style="color:#ff00ff">mintbbb, I quite enjoyed that, especially the unusual viewing angle.

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>> ^Yogi:

Up until just after the 1960's children in our schools were taught that it's a wonderful thing that we massacre'd the Native Population. There was even a little boy in a cartoon telling everyone how he wishes he was there killing them when they would wait to the men went out hunting and massacre the women and children.
Also in the 60's there was an exhibit in a museum where children could play on a Blackhawk helicopter and fire on a Vietnamese village.
I'm not saying this isn't a good video I upvoted it...I'm just pointing out that we should look in the fucking mirror. QM I'm looking at you.


It's great, and it's necessary, that people in all cultures are capable of being self-aware, but I don't think it's at all important or relevant to what's being taught, and done, in Islamic schools in The United Kingdom. Say what you want about the UK - its faults are many - but it's not a 13th century culture. What's being demonstrated here is repulsive and poisonous, and not enough people are taking this seriously.*

Yeah, we've messed up. America's messed up pretty bad and Europe in general has a horrible track record. When you're in the road and the car is coming, don't pause to contemplate all those times you cut people off in your ridiculous SUV. Fucking move.

*(not enough people are taking this seriously who aren't paranoid, xenophobic racists who can't compute 2 plus 2 without thinking there's a brown man under the bed)

OK I'm looking in the mirror. Fking perfection.

Moving on...what am I to make of your post? You've twisted a Wake-TFU vid about the dangers of unchecked radical vermin in a fading, overly-tolerant society to blaming America first? Newsflash: every country's history is written in blood.

Left-wingies are a hell of a lot closer to their cousins the communists (100 million murdered worldwide) than I am to being a turbaned vermin promoting violence in the name of God.


>> ^Yogi:

Up until just after the 1960's children in our schools were taught that it's a wonderful thing that we massacre'd the Native Population. There was even a little boy in a cartoon telling everyone how he wishes he was there killing them when they would wait to the men went out hunting and massacre the women and children.
Also in the 60's there was an exhibit in a museum where children could play on a Blackhawk helicopter and fire on a Vietnamese village.
I'm not saying this isn't a good video I upvoted it...I'm just pointing out that we should look in the fucking mirror. QM I'm looking at you.

>> ^Yogi:

Up until just after the 1960's children in our schools were taught that it's a wonderful thing that we massacre'd the Native Population. There was even a little boy in a cartoon telling everyone how he wishes he was there killing them when they would wait to the men went out hunting and massacre the women and children.
Also in the 60's there was an exhibit in a museum where children could play on a Blackhawk helicopter and fire on a Vietnamese village.
I'm not saying this isn't a good video I upvoted it...I'm just pointing out that we should look in the fucking mirror. QM I'm looking at you.

Anyone old enough to remember this little saturday morning diddy?

Up until just after the 1960's children in our schools were taught that it's a wonderful thing that we massacre'd the Native Population. There was even a little boy in a cartoon telling everyone how he wishes he was there killing them when they would wait to the men went out hunting and massacre the women and children.

Also in the 60's there was an exhibit in a museum where children could play on a Blackhawk helicopter and fire on a Vietnamese village.

I'm not saying this isn't a good video I upvoted it...I'm just pointing out that we should look in the fucking mirror. QM I'm looking at you.

This is precisely why I hate the Army's Blackhawk pilots. They fly like that to avoid RPGs, but it turns a 30 minute flight into a 4-hour G-Force simulating vomit fest. Makes me really, really fear travelling while deployed. </notserious>

This movie has the distinction of being the only movie I have ever walked out of. It was about the point where the voiceover was going on and on and on for about 15 minutes about the guy punching a hole in the other guy. Luckily Blackhawk Down was starting just next door.

I love the Naked Gun movies, I love Monty Python, I even got into Brazil. I have no fear of "stupid" or zany humour.

This movie sucks anal discharge.