>>>>>>>>>>My advisors tell me that for Jasper we will need to have Las Vegas and two NFL teams to be named at a later date.
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>>>>>>>>>Ok, Vegas and the Arizona Cardinals and Detroit Lions, plus you have to throw in Banff.
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>>>>>>>>Don't give up anything without getting all of Alberta in the deal :o)
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>>>>>>>I'm going to trade Detroit (the entire city), Chicago, Gary IN, and Little Rock, AR, plus three NFL teams (Lions, Cardinals and Seahawks) for Alberta and British Columbia!
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>>>>>>I'll up my offer to California, New Jersey, Madonna, Al Gore, and all the other Democrats, Dr Phil (whatever he is), and 50% of our illegal aliens for the Edmonton Oilers, Ottawa Senators, and a good fishing lake in northern Manitoba (fish and a boat included).
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>>>>>Good - It's a deal - You get to go fishing and I get the New England patriots, The New York Giants. Done.
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>>>>Deal! I grew up with the Boston Patriots in the 60's, and they are the reason I learned to not like football.
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>>>>I'll take hockey any day!
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>>>I really liked the Patriots' old uniforms, though. Much better than the corporate looking new ones.
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>>If they had put real football players in them, they might have been competitive!
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>Picky, picky, picky.
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>BTW, speaking of uniforms, check out this gallery of goalies' helmets from Sports Illustrated --
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>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0810/nhl.goalie.masks/content.1.html?eref=T1

Some of those are wildly cool.

Sure beats the 'jason' style mask I wore way way back when I played!