Top Five Teams

We educators often tell our students, “It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.” In that same spirit, here are my Top Five Teams who didn’t get the championship, but played a great game:

  1. 2007-08 New England Patriots
  2. 1992-93 Toronto Maple Leafs
  3. 1986 Boston Red Sox
  4. 2007-08 Kitchener Rangers
  5. 2002 Edmonton Eskimos

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Top 5 Top "x" lists

Siege Curmudgeon‘s comment — that Top “x” lists call to mind Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity — inspired this post. I agree — High Fidelity was a great book, and in fact generated some of the best Top 5 lists ever. This got me thinking about the most influential Top “x” lists in my life.

In order, then:

  1. The Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels
  2. AFI‘s 100 Years … 100 Movies (Note: Since AFI requires a registration to download the list, the link here is to Wikipedia’s complete list of the movies.)
  3. Rob’s 5 Best Side One Track Ones (from High Fidelity)
  4. Hector’s List of Favourite Authors for the Bath (from Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast)
  5. Granatstein’s Top 20 Canadian Prime Ministers

Top 5 fashion statements that I didn't make this week

1. Blue pinstripe suit to reflect our second consecutive Tory government.

2. My #5 Bill Barilko jersey to reflect the last time that the Leafs likely had any success at Madison Square Gardens.

3. A coat of mithril, dwarvish mail, and a plaited beard tucked into my belt to honour the completion of the Grade 9 Hobbit unit.

4. Black inky cloak: ‘trappings and suits of woe’ to wrap up the first Act of Hamlet with the Grade 12 class.

5. Davy Crockett buckskin outfit complete with a coon skin cap — because I’ve always wanted to.

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Top Five 80s Tunes to Accompany Marking Unit Tests

  1. New Orleans is Sinking by The Tragically Hip
  2. Hysteria by Def Leppard
  3. Living’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi
  4. Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams
  5. Black Velvet by Alannah Myles

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