except his includes the word "minus".
Today marks the five year anniversary of this site. Five years ago today, I sat down and wrote a few quick paragraphs about the previous night's Leaf game, and gave it the creative title "Leafs 4, Habs 2". The post doesn't bear much resemblance to what you usually find on the site these days, although it did include a Kyle Wellwood fat joke and a reference to terrible Leafs goaltending.
Over the next few months I wrote a variety of posts, most of them attempts at serious analysis. My audience consisted of roughly seven people. Eventually those seven people held an intervention and told me "Dude, enough complaining about the Mats Sundin up, lighten up", and so I did.
In the years since, the site has grown, I've had a chance to do some pretty neat things (have I ever mentioned the book? I have? OK, just checking), and I still haven't got over the Mats Sundin thing. To mark the anniversary, here are some five-packs from the first half decade of Down Goes Brown.
Five posts from the site's first few months that, in hindsight, weren't completely terrible.- Russ Courtnall for John Kordic was a good trade - Five years later, I still don't think I've ever convinced anyone. But I'm still right, and you're all still wrong.
- Great Obscure Moments in Leafs History - Nikolai Borschevsky's post-game interview with Ron MacLean - Un-bee-leeb-abba.
- How to fight when you don't want to fight - Be sure to click on all the YouTube links to see if any of them still work. (They don't.)
- Ottawa Senators traditions - Senator fans didn't seem to like this one. You just can't please those people.
- If MLSE made their own beer - I think this may have been the post where I learned to abandon the use of actual structure and love the bullet point.
