Friday, October 10, 2008

No one gave Def Leppard the Stanley Cup instruction manual?

JUST GIVE THEM A BREAK, THEY ARE FROM ENGLAND AND PROBABLY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THE STANLEY CUP IS!!!!!! I WOULD'VE LIKED TO SEE RICK ALLEN TRY TO LIFT IT UP:)

The Detroit Red Wings may be feeling a twinge of embarrassment after their 3-2 home-opening loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night, in which the Stanley Cup champions passed the puck like a remedial-level pee-wee team.

That is, until Def Leppard's Joe Elliott redefined the concept of embarrassment during one of their NHL Face-Off Rocks segments at the Fox Theater in Detroit. This is what you get for booking a band from England: Drive on the wrong side of the road, place the holiest of holy hockey grails on a pedestal upside down.

You saw him turn the Stanley Cup the wrong way, and you just wanted to reach through the television and flip it back before he put it down. If only someone on stage had helped him. Why couldn't the drummer have lent a ... bit of moral support?

Aw, shucks, we all make mistakes. We can't stay disappointed in a band that gave the world the arena rock magnificence of "Hysteria." Heck, the scene above wasn't even the most disturbing thing we saw on Versus tonight. This was:

1 comment:

Fliss and Mike Adventures said...

I want a Pina Colada out of this puppy... put the umbrella sticking out the top of the cup... hehehehe