Word: bonking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to product manager Jean-Karl Carpano of Rossignol, "We could see every other person on a snowboard by 2005." There are some isolated ski areas that prohibit snowboarding, but the vast majority caters to the ever increasing numbers of boarders who want to tweak the halfpipes and bonk some fat air (ride the parabolic-shaped chutes and hit a really good jump). As Bill Adams, director of the Mount Mansfield Ski School in Stowe, Vermont, says, "They have saved the industry's butt...
...hell of a way to spread the gospel of big-time sports to all parts of the country. We already have a system with Las Vegas in the IHL where the team is independently owned and operated, serving for some old (e.g. Clint Malarchuk) and some new (Radek Bonk) stars as a financial safe haven in the world of labor and management strife...how tough would it be to piece together such a system which would truly put the pressure on bad teams to improve...