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November History
27 years ago
Braille Method of
goaltending introduced. (see
best of the Duffer Advisor)
25 years ago
11/27/80 1st Turkey Skate
22 years ago
SEPTEMBER 19, 1983 WHITE SOX
CLINCH THE PENNANT. LYNN PRESECKY MARRIES MARK FETTING. THE THREE
AMIGOS (THE KING, WAJU AND BEAK) TAKE A NAP ON THE PRESECKY'S
FRONT PORCH SWING. See
picture
11-19-83 - Fred Bobka marries Shirley Morel.
Cabbage Patch dolls are
in.
Chicago elects first black mayor.
Pope goes to Poland.
Michael Jackson wins a Grammy for “Beat
It”
21 years ago
1984 AT&T is broken into 8
companies
14 Communist nations boycott summer
Olympics in Los Angeles
Cubs win National League East title.
Ronald Reagan at age 73 became the oldest
president ever elected.
The 1983-84
Team Picture
20 years ago
11/21/85 The Duffers
Dazzle in the Reno Gamblers Cup. (See
Picture) The trip got off to a rough start, when the team
arrived for the Friday flight, we found out our plane left 24
hours ago. The King had to do some masterful negotiating to
trade our worthless Thursday tickets for valid Friday tickets.
Slime Dog and Thor were at the far end of concourse A when they
should have been in the far end of concourse B! They got a
page and did an OJ Simpson run through the airport and just beat
the closing door at take off. Beak quieted a berserk
preschooler on the plane by taking the screaming kid to the back
of the plane to party with Trixy and the Duffers. The mother
of the child was so thankful, she gave Beak her address and phone
number so that he could send her a picture of her son in a Duffer
Jersey. Skip was very impressed. Beak and his wife got
the Royal treatment in Las Vegas at the Desert Inn from the lady's
husband. The Commander got hot when he is accused of gassing the
plane on the ride home. Beak just smiled innocently.
The Duffers were awarded the Fair Play Award and Stump won the
Silver Medal. Can you name the 2 names that were too long to
fit on the trophy? Fair Play
Award,
1985 Dubuque Trips begin,
Wheezer gets nick name after his first shift. Tom Morgan gives his
account of the Alien and the 3 legged dog. Read
scan of type written account.
9 years ago
11/22/96 Third annual road trip to Green Bay 24 Duffers get
their Silver anniversary Hockey bags. The King misses a wide
open net in front of 4,000 fans. King throws his infamous
striped underwear away. Stump kills a mouse in his bed.
11/29/96 Turkey Skate is canceled. Thor shows up
anyway.
6 years ago
11/5/99
Duffer GODs score 3 goals. Bobby Presecki, and Mike
Lopatka scored for the Whites.
11/13/99 First
Duffer trip to Peoria with Granato in charge. The Anvil
shines and Bob Plager entertains.
Thanksgiving
1999
5
years ago
11/18/2000 Duffers present Jason Christie with a
Duffer Jacket thanks to Clubhouse Designs and Uncle Bob. Jason
gives Duffers a tour of his $375,000 Rivermen Coach.
Nov 22, 2000 Gov. George Bush called
on the US Supreme Court to stop the vote counting in Florida. In
Palm Beach Circuit Court Judge Jorge Labarga ordered election
officials to consider dimpled ballots. In Dade County election
officials called off the recount due to their inability to meet
the Nov 27 deadline.
Nov 23, 2000 In Florida the Supreme
Court rejected an emergency plea by Al Gore to force Miami-Dade
County to resume manual counts.
Nov 26, 2000 In
Florida Sec. of State Katherine Harris certified Gov. George W.
Bush as winner in the state's presidential election, 2,912,790 to
2,912,253.
4 years ago
11/17/2001 Nick
"Ball Pin Hammer" Hawrysio scored his first
Duffer goal, when he beat his dad after several attempts. He
is learning the Duffer ways quickly, he gave Beak 2 bucks
for a beer in the locker room. The
goal was scored in The Peoria Civic Center in front of a sparse
crowd of 5. Doc’s Daughter Becky, the Peoria Goalie’s
Father, 2 window washers and Beer-Nuts. Let’s hear it for
Mr. Nuts! He was suffering with a pulled “Hammy”.
Did he call in sick? No, he went to Peoria and suffered
through our game, moved cars for players that were parked
illegally and stayed up most of the night listening to Beak and
Bob Plager stories.
We had 18 Duffers go to
Peoria on Saturday November 17. We played for almost 3 hours and
the Rivermen beat the Arkansas River Blades twice. 11/23/01
Peoria and Mr. Clean
11/18/2001 Scores of people heard the
Leonids. The sounds weren't rumbling sonic booms or the loud crack
of a distant explosion arriving long after the meteor's flash had
come and gone. Rather, these were exotic, delicate noises, heard
while the meteor was in full view. Scientists call them
"electrophonic meteor sounds."Some Duffers were
returning to their rooms in Peoria at that time.
11/22/01 A record number of Duffers and family showed
up at Seven Bridges to give thanks. Eddies
new camber provided a handy party place in the parking lot.
3
years ago
November 2, 2002 Duffers go to Peoria.
Http://www.lopatka.net/11-8-02
November 8-11, 2002 Brinks and Beak go to Kitchener,
Ontario to watch the 4 Nations Cup. Cammi was named player
of the game when she scored 4 goals against Sweden. Cammi is
leading the professional Women's Hockey league in scoring with 15
goals. She plays for the Vancouver
Griffins.
November 28, 2002 Thanksgiving, is a Happy Holiday, as Eddie
the anvil provides Brats, Beer and Rum for 32 Duffers.
2 years ago
November 21, 2003 Stump gets a new hip and Rich Storm
announces the trip to Denver in March.
November 27, 2003 Darien IL The Turkey Day skate produced a
record crowd with many goals.
Read more...
November 28, 2003 Peoria IL Some of the Duffers skated
off their turkey for 2 hours and 45 minutes in the Peoria Civic
Center, then we watched Jason Christie's Rivermen beat Cincinnati.
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Last Year
November 9, 2004 Tom and
Ericka's are blessed with a new daughter. Hacksaw found a
cure from his ailing health. For weeks, he had been
following his doctor's orders. No alcohol, plenty of couch
rest, clean air, good food etc. He used the George Costanza
"opposite method" to cure his ailment. He got off
of the couch and skated 3 full periods, he came off with his
equipment soaked with perspiration, then had a few beers and
laughs in the freezing cold parking lot. At Bonos, he
celebrated Tom and Ericka's new daughter with a cigar and some
greasy foods that he chased with some shots and beers. He
was cured! That cure will not appear in the American Journal
of Medicine. Maybe the Placebo
Journal will run a story on it.
NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed
into the record books on Nov. 16, 2004, demonstrating that an
air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of
sound. Preliminary data from the scramjet-powered research vehicle
show its revolutionary engine worked successfully at approximately
Mach 10 (nearly 7,000 mph) as it flew at an altitude of
approximately 110,000 feet.
November 25, 2004 Smallest Thanksgiving turn out in
history, we barely had 2 lines. The good news was each Duffer had
to eat 4 of Eddie's brats each. Read
More
November 26, 2004 Largest group of Duffers headed for Peoria
and skated for 3 hours! Vidas Formica flew in from Seattle to join
in the fun. The Anvil's Camper was filled with "day
trippers, beer and brats". Beak gets his hip shot up
and gives thanks. Read More
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