Hockey, I guess

This is 100% @ticklefighthockey's fault - I take no responsibility for my actions. Here is the original video. First of all this is all I had to work with to identify the truck (and I know about as much about trucks as I do about sea anemones):

But I can google image search with the best of them, and my forensic investigation reveals this is probably a Ford Super Duty. You can tell by that weird recessed badge thing.

Now while the overall height of the F250 is a known and easily comparable 81.3 inches (6ft9 or 206cm) our video does not show us the roof, so we have to work with the top of the wing mirror. This was much harder to find. The best I can come up with is this guess:

Unfortunately Geno slouches a little to avoid said wing mirror, but I think we can call it the top of his shoulder (or his special Sid snuggling spot):

This means we can now carefully and precisely calculate his true height using the power of mathematics, in which I have absolutely no qualifications:

Adding on one more head gets us to 205cm (ish) - a whopping 6ft9 - as tall as an F250, and wayyyyy taller than his official stats (6ft3). But, what if he's been lying all this time to make Sid feel better? I offer as possible proof:

Using Rakell as a reference (who I calculate to be a little over 6'2" which agrees with his recorded 188cm) I think a slouching Geno is about 1/28 taller then Rakell

I'm going to make one (1) post about this and then block a bunch of blogs and move on, because I know Heated Rivalry is a lot of people's first rpf fandom and I think it's important.

rpf has a long, long history (back to the 1920s and probably before) that you can read about here. imagining lives (and loves) for celebrities is a cherished fandom activity.

you know what's not cool? tinhatting. that's the term fandom uses for people who aren't doing this just for fun, but who have convinced themselves that they know a secret truth about people they've never met.

if you've coming across blogs in the hudcon tag that speak with certainty ("they've been together since before new years"), who use dismissive (and usually misogynistic in context) terms like "PR", "Stunt" and "Beard", who definitively describe someone's sexual identity ("we know he's gay"), then you're reading the work of a tinhat.

worse still, many of these posters are claiming an authority ("we've seen this before") based on one of the worst fandom conspiracy theories - Larry. A bunch of tinhats who persist in the face of over a decade of denials and pleas from the people involved and their friends and family to stop. many of them haven't even changed their blog names. and then they hide behind the "i'm just one girlie pop posting my opinions on my blog, i'm not doing anything wrong".

here's the point: enjoy your rpf! do it with fun and whimsy. hudson wants you to knock him up! write your fictional fiction, and craft your unhinged theories in the tags. play with your paper dolls. pair people with any and all of their costars. you do not need it to be real.

don't give tinhats any oxygen. don't try and argue with them, they won't change. block them and move on.

and be a shining example for all the people here because it's baby's first fandom! this is supposed to be a good time. welcome.

who is winning

the score

what goalie interference is

you WILL be told:

everyone involved needs to die

kill him sid // penguins vs panthers