I don’t know about you, but I love a good sign that informs you about the historical significance of the area.
No matter what I’m doing, if I see one of those historical markers, I will stop dead in my tracks and read anything and everything about the event. Do I remember it for very long after? Not necessarily… but boy do I look cultured and intelligent as I digest everything the sign has to offer.
Who really remembers anything anymore anyways? With smart phones and A.I., the days of storing things up in your noggin’ are long gone.
And while we’re on the subject of noggins, one man had his rearranged recently when he unknowingly picked a fight with a former NHL hockey player out on the golf course. How did that happen? Well, there are a number of things that can trigger someone out on the golf course.
If someone brings figurative, mental baggage to the course, there’s a good chance that baggage is going to be unpacked at some point. Slow play, or holding up other groups, is one of those things that can really get the blood boiling for golfers. And when alcohol gets involved, that only adds fuel to the fire.
That appears to be the triggering event in this video out of Canada that went viral earlier this week. Some golfers were apparently taking their precious time to get through their round at the Alberta Springs Golf Course, and the group behind them may or may not have asked politely (I’ve got a feeling it wasn’t polite) for them to speed things up, or let them play through. At one point you hear one of the men say:
“You can’t even stand up to tee your ball up, man”
And when the camera pans over, he’s struggling pretty hard to get it on the tee.
For some reason, being called out empowered a man in a blue-patterned shirt to pick a fight… with the biggest guy in the group behind him. You’ll see in the video that the guy was yelling and clapping to get himself fired up for battle, and that really ended up working out for him in the end.
That’s sarcasm by the way.
Because not longer after he clapped and yelled, he ran at the large man who some on the internet have identified as former NHL center Nick Tarnasky, who played over 200 games in the NHL and had stints with the Panthers, Predators and the Lightning. It’s never wise to pick a fight, but it’s especially stupid to try and trade punches with someone who sort of did that for a living at one point.
You see the hockey style fighting come back to Tarnasky immediately (he grabs the guy’s shirt like he used to grab a jersey while out on the ice), and he even throws the attacking guy around multiple times. One time, he even throws the idiot into a nearby pond. It’s truly a wild video, and can be viewed at this link.
If you’re a fan of that one, you’ll really enjoy the even longer version of the video that’s also surfaced. Because that’s how the internet works… a clip goes viral, and the virality uncovers an unedited and uncut version. The guy who got his you-know-what kicked even shared a photo of his injuries.
And if you thought the lore stopped there, it doesn’t. This is officially the golf story that just keeps giving. It was discovered very recently that a sign has now been installed at Albert Springs Golf Course where the fight went down to commemorate the battle that took place in that very spot. It simply reads “R.I.P.,” and then includes a couple of quotes from the viral video:
Okay, so not an official sign like the ones I was alluding to earlier in the story.
But for all we know, that small makeshift sign could just be a placeholder for the big marker that’s soon to be erected in that very spot. And considering just how big of a BANG (that’s a pun related to the fight video, if you haven’t watched it) the story has made, I’d say a historical sign should be placed there. It might even read something like this:
“In July of 2025, an intoxicated man let the booze get the best of him, and he decided to trade blows with a former NHL enforcer who had over 100 fights in his hockey career. This pond should have been the wake up call the intoxicated man needed after he was tossed into it like a rag doll. May we all remember this lopsided fight, and never forget that the easier thing to do is just let the faster group play through.”
