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corksens said:
When you use the word "literally" it means you are stating something as a fact, no exaggeration, ect.

Harold Ballard didn't invent scalping. Period.
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Holy shit, he sure as fawk did. What the heck would a Sens fan, where no one cares about anything other than living out there days in a weird city, know about ticket scalping/

I am not completely up to date, but I used to sit beside the General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs for twenty games a year, and talked to Ballard, Clancy etc... extensively.

If you want to piss on all that, then go right ahead, its your right as a phan. Er fan.

Renting a crowd, selling a crowd, is beyond Ottawa. Heck, they let one of the nicest venues in Canada, heck North America, Lansdowne Park lose their CFL team twice.

So please, until you move from that soulless city, don't profess to know anything about selling anything.

The only thing that sells in Ottawa is wickedness and political loyalty. Period. Good thing you have the Gatineaus to get away from the stench.
 
Teeds. Ballard didn't invent scalping, despite your diatribe.

Scalping has been around since professional spectator sports took off in the 1900's.
 
TimHorton said:
Pretty sure as someone with native blood Teeds should know his ancestors scalped long ago.
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That explains the drinking. :sarcasm

And cork is right: scalping has been around since the beginning of the twentieth century at the very least.

http://books.google.com/books?id=SfoCOwZSXJkC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=scalpers+1900s&source=bl&ots=LKIFw2xJxf&sig=7yZvHeM9v4heLaDWaYURUMHEgQU&hl=en&ei=kQwyTNGGOMH98AaglNzICw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=scalpers%201900s&f=false
 
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Ticket-Scalping-American-History-1850-2005/dp/0786428058"]Amazon.com: Ticket Scalping: An American History, 1850-2005 (9780786428052): Kerry Segrave: Books[/ame]

Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid-1800s, scalpers, known as "sidewalk men," were charging all the traffic would bear for event tickets.
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Scalping has been around since the 1800s

And I don't believe for a second that were are trading Schenn and Kadri for Iginla.
 
Thanks JCY. It is a pretty good explanation for my drinking. The native Indians actually believe I was Maskepetoon, in a past life as well.

I am not a massive believer in re-incarnation, but the bizarre thing is, his book, was my favourite book as a child.

He is, and was, in my opinion, the greatest hero in North American history.

Initially killed everything in his way. Favourite pastime was finishing off about ten guys in hand to hand combat, and then getting down with his favourite girl.

Then, after a great visionary/spiritual experience, went the complete opposite way and became the greatest peace officer in Native Indian history.

If any of the top five Hollywood filmmakers ever went with his story, it would be one of the greatest movies of all time.

I wanted to do it myself, but to do it right, you need a Micheal Mann to do it.

Google on the guy, its unreal what he did.

And scalping has been around since the Mespotamians, but Ballard took it to another level.

Whores, strippers, good looking broads, are resplendent at the ACC to this day. Rent a crowd gentlemen, the Sens will never get it down.

I threw a party with this guy once around the corner from the Gardens. It is a party that to this day beats any party anyone from Toronto has ever seen.

Caligula would have blushed. Five of the Leafs attended and they said the combination of this guy and me, made for a party that was beyond ancient Rome.
 
teeds said:
Toronto's biggest ticket scalper, the head guy, was said to be Ballards illegitimate son. He used to be the guy that would stand out front and deal with all the mercedes and ferrari crowd.
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Sorry this is BS.. I know the family that runs the scalping - originally from Guelph (your neck of the woods Teeds). The dude with the lambo parked outside is one of the Waslyn brothers.
 
Real_ESPNLeBrun

Leafs source says quiet today on Kaberle front because of long holiday weekend in U.S. Things should pick up again starting tomorrow
 
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