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When you think about what kind of careers would be cool if only you could paid to do them certain ones that immediately come to mind. Careers like being the guy that tests new female "talent" for porn careers, medical marijuana tester, or being that guy that moves the chains at football games would be great but Cameron Hughes' job is right up there.

Get this, professional teams pay this guy to come to their games, act crazy and cheer excessively for the home team. This guy gets booked for many different teams across different sports. How does one go about getting a job like this??

"I'm that guy—the funny, happy, dancing, possibly very drunk guy you've seen at the ballpark at least once," says Hughes, adding that he himself never drinks on the job unless you count the three Red Bulls he downs as a pre-game ritual.

Baseball teams like the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers pay him an average of $2,000 a game to do his thing, as do N.B.A. teams like the L.A. Lakers and New Orleans Hornets and N.H.L. teams like the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs. All told, he works about 80 to 90 major- and minor-league games a year, and difficult as it may be to believe, Hughes makes a comfortable six-figure salary just by being a crazy sports fan.

It's very surprising that teams actually pay people to do things like this but I guess anything is possible if people can make careers posting pics of half naked bitches on blogs all day... :-D.

[Portfolio via The Big Lead]

Barry Melrose, who happens to be one of my favorite ESPN analysts, is leaving ESPN for sunnier pastors in Florida. Now those guys he is pictured with above will be his rivals.

The Tampa Bay Lightning announced him as their new head coach today and the worldwide leader in sports won't be the same. Now we will have to be subjected to the hockey analysis of Steve Levy, John Buccigross, or maybe even this guy. Someone help us please!

The highlight of Barry's NHL coaching career was in 1993 when he led the Los Angeles Kings to the Stanley Cup finals. There was some guy on that squad named Wayne Gretzky who may have helped just little bit though.

I have no problem with Celebrity charity games.  Softball is cool, golf is alright, basketball is usually pretty funny but when it comes to sports like hockey, they need to just leave it to the pros.

Alan Thicke of TV's "Growing Pains" was one of the featured Celebs at Hockeyfest in St. Louis last weekend and he was probably better off not showing up.  Check out some of his questionable hockey moves.

Thanks to Puck Daddy for this one.

Puck Daddy discovered this but no one knows exactly where this hockey fight is from but either way, this is the stuff that hockey fights should be! Crazy!!!

By now everyone should know that the Detroit Red Wings are the 2008 Stanley Cup Champions.

After the Wings won the championship, of course there were a lot of pictures taken a lot of celebrating but according to some people, Red Wings Goalie Dominik Hasek was having a little bit too much fun. This is via Yahoo Answers:

If your talking about the “V” for victory using two fingers, it does have meaning, depending on which way your palm faces. Palm outwards facing someone else means Peace, palm facing you while back of your hand faces the other person basically mean “F@K U, i’ve got mine“.

This symbol was derived during the middle ages when england was at war with France. Bowmen, or Long Bowmen (aka, archers) use two fingers to draw back their bow string and were the deadliest unit of their time. They were considered a prime targets by the emeny and, when captured, their drawstring fingers would be removed. Whenever an archer survived capture, and march through a couquered city, they would hold their drawstring hand up, back of hand facing outward, with their two drawstring fingers extended upward. This was their way of telling the enemt F U! I’ve still got mine!”

The spelling isn't that great but you get the idea.

What do you guys think? Was Hasek trying to say fuck you to everyone?

[Source: Flatusyahu]

[Image via DetNews]

A few days ago, Tiger Woods pissed a lot of hockey fans and bloggers off when he said that he didn't think that people watched hockey anymore. When asked who he was rooting for in the Stanley Cup Finals, this was his response:

"I don't really care. Let's talk about the Dodgers," the California native said. "I don't think anybody really watches hockey anymore."

Well NHL on NBC's Mike Milbury didn't appreciate that comment too much and he wasn't scared to let Tiger know about it:

"You know what? I'm gonna change the name now. It's gonna be Tiger Wuss. Here's a guy that took about three months to get over a simple arthroscopic surgery. You look at [Pens forward] Ryan Malone. His face exploded with a slap shot last night - he's back out in 10 minutes!

"Keep your yap shut, Tiger, or I'll send a couple of wingers down there - [Pens forward] Gary Roberts - to tidy you up a little bit, meat head."

You can tell that Milbury was a bully growing up.

Tiger Woods may get asked about this but I doubt that he will be responding the same way next time.

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Ok so here is a conversation between Patrick Green of San Antonio and Sean Beligian of WDFN 1130AM.  Green is highly upset with the Red Wings tradition of mistreating dead octopi.  He is going all out too.  He's not kidding.

This guy needs a hobby like... watching sports, fucking or something.

Congratulation to the Red Wings

The Red Wings are the 2008 Stanley Cup Champions for the fourth time in 11 seasons. I don't think anyone but Red Wings fans wanted them to win but congratulations anyway.

Congrats to Henrik Zetterberg for winning the Conn Smythe Trophy.

One Rowdy Red Wings fan didn't get to see it though.  Sucks to be you.