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August 20, 2008 |
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Loosing Our National Sport?
FOUND by Czina
in Prague, Czech Republic
I found it the other day on my way to school.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Love it! It's signed, so he must be famous. But I can't read Czech. Who is it?
"Losing" only has one "o," for christ's sake.
Too bad it wasn't GORDIE HOWE! Still, a wicked FIND!
Cool!! An international Find!! Way cool!
I too wish I knew what his name was.
And Phoenix, chill out. How's your spelling in Czech?
That's what I thought.
Way to tell 'em, BABY!!
phoenixrising - Ditto baby basil (and BTW - "christ's" is with a capital C...)
Great find!!!
Why, it's that famous Czech ice hockey star from the late 1950's and early 1960's, VieeiuJ Zilertst . . ... or something like that.
re: "Loosing"
Do the finders write the titles, or is it the Found staffers?
erp, i hope its the finders. If its Found staffers, they should just know better, for christ's sakes.
Guy LaFleur!
That's not who is in the picture - I just like saying it.
Guy LaFleur!
I have a friend with a tattoo that says "Born to Lose". We like to do some editing and make it say "Born Too Loose". If you knew her, it's very appropriate.
As for the find, if someone was going to play this guy in his life story, I'm casting BMX rockstar Mat Hoffman.
Is tato špalda bezvadný,phoenixrising?
Looks like he had all of his teeth still.
The first thing I thought was, I didn't know there was a James Bond movie with Hockey.
The submitters of Finds get to make up the titles and write the Finders' blurbs. I'm fairly certain that if a Find is submitted without a title, it gets posted as "Untitled #x." (have you ever checked out the Untitled Finds? Looks like there have been 7 so far. Some of my faves.)
if Czech is pronounced "check," is Czina pronounced "china"?
This is an awesome Find! This dude almost looks like he could be Man on Bike's brother.
I wonder if whoever lost the picture is bummed, or if it belonged to a (now deceased) parent, and it just got lost in the shuffle of going through "dad's old shit."
The Czech men's hockey team won the Gold in the 1998 Olympics at Nagano.
How old would you guess this picture is? My guess is it's from 1968.
Gesundheit, Librarian!
Awesome find! As a huge hockey fan, I really think this is too cool! Alas, I haven't kept up with 60's-era Czech hockey stars, so I don't know who this could be.
I think it's Butch Patrick.
I wonder what is it about this photo that makes the finder wonder if Czechs might be losing their national sport. I'm pretty sure there's still a significant number of Czechs in professional hockey. Maybe because the photo is so old?
Flargy-Maybe it's because they are all coming here to play in the NHL? Just a thought...
I thought the same thing, DeLonghi, that he looks like Man on Bike's brother. Or Man on Bike's son? Or grandson? I also pick up a 1968 flavor from this pic.
Loosing, when used as a verb, can mean: loosen, unbind, liberate, release.
Perhaps Czina meant to say that putting this pic on the internet is releasing hockey upon the world, in a way.
That makes as much sense as "losing our national sport", which I don't get either.
Is hockey the national sport of the Czech Republic? I know nothing about the sport, actually.
Way to tell them baby basil!
@Flargy and mlm: I took it to mean that they "lost" the national sport- as in, they lost this picture?
Wow. You know he's famous 'cause the picture is autographed. He actually looks very much like a fellow at our local Pet Smart store. I'll ask him next time I take the pup in for some shopping. "Excuse me, Brad, are you by any chance an ex-Czech hockey player?".
I'll let you all know what he says.
Very cool find.
Interesting article about the history of Czech ice hockey:
http://tinyurl.com/5a84wr
-- but I can't tell you who this guy is.
Wikipedia lists 249 Olympic Czech hockey players (plus 79 photos) but I can't spot this chap's name (there's one called Radek Bonk but I don't think it's him).
Some Czech Foundite out there will know!
Good point, mlm.
I had a hunch this would bring someone out of hiding. It's the hockey thing.
@Jonathan--It's not Radek Bonk, because either he plays now or just recently retired, I think. Hockey players, because there are so many international players, are a great source for fun-to-say names. Bonk, bonk, bonk. Now, isn't that fun?
Flargy--get him down on the ground!!! No wait, the refs will just stop the brawl once that happens. :(
Yeah, Radek Bonk is even more fun to say that Guy LaFleur!
OK, for anyone who cares, I did a little googling. It could be Ivan Hlinka or Milan Novy. But I did see a picture from back in the day of a hockey player wearing a #5 jersey, and his name is Vladimir Zabrodsky. Of course, the most well-known Czech hockey player is Dominik Hasek, a goaltender. Now you can all sleep easy tonight!
Is that a Czech mark in front of his name?
Vilem Heckel perhaps?
http://www.cernosice.org/english/english.html
Years ago my son, never a hockey fan, had a Mario Lemieux poster on his wall. Except he'd describe it then as his "Mario LEE-mix" poster. Toss up to me whether Lemieux or LEE-mix is more fun to say.
Or maybe.. (farther down the page) Vladimír Kobranov – hockey player, World and European Champion - 1949 (Vilem Heckel's a photographer)
but that signature doesn't look like it says Vladimir Kobranov.
I've been waiting for years for Miroslav Satan to get traded to the Devils. It doesn't matter how it's pronounced, it would be the coolest jersey in professional sports. Combination hockey/black metal fans would be buying them up left and right.
Unfortunately, the "new" NHL would probably never allow it.
@wandering the streets: Thanks for straightening out my sleuthing. (Right photo, wrong name?)
Flargy--My husband has been saying that for years! He would be first in line to buy that jersey.
It's Jan Saudek.
Librarian, I don't know who Mario Lemieux is, but "le mieux" means "the best" in French. I wonder if he made up his name?
But, I suppose if someone named Margaret Spellings can be Secretary of Education, anything is possible.
Jan Saudek seems like an interesting person. I love art photography! Did he play hockey on the side?
Radek Bonk on the head.
Wonderful. After days of "purple pickled pig parts," I now have "Radek Bonk, bonk a bonk, Radek Bonk, bonk a bonk."
Almost as bad as "Fittipaldi, palsy-walsy, how does your garden grow?" which once afflicted me for weeks.
But it did make me laugh when I first saw it. Radek Bonk, not Fittipaldi.
Oh God, now they're in there together...
I think he looks a little like Marlon Brando in the old days.
HA! Czech Mark!! LOL
Maybe it's Vilém Loos who played for Czechoslovakia in the 1920 SUMMER Olympic games (Bronze) and the 1924 Winter Olympics.
This would totally explain the "misspelled" title.
clover... Mario Lemieux is Canadian.(or Canadien, s'il vous plait.) We don't make up our names around here.
I think this guy looks like young Jack Nicholson.
Except, Mlle Mona Lisa, in cyber space where clearly you actually have made up your name.
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Hay Librarian, Mario Lemieux always made me think of Pepe LePew... Lemieux, le meow, le purrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I meant "Hey Librarian," not "Hay Librarian." I know, I know....
http://loseloose.com/
Unless, of course, Czina is referring to the national sport being loosed on other unsuspecting countries ... ?
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Alan, is that "Radek Bonk on the head" a classic Star Trek reference? (Miri?)
Puckhog, I think the signature does say Vilém Loos. I think that could be who it is. Which makes me way off on my 1968 guess on the date, since apparently he died in 1942.
@ JUST WONDERING- Pun intended, for sure!! Very swift...*Czeck mark* at the beginning of the signature!!!
Great sleuthing! And eyesight, too!