siouxkid12

From what I gathered talking to Greg and the three investors I know they all said it never fully recovered from the flood. The main thing Greg said was when the flood washed away the cooking equipment and it had to be replaced by new stuff the food never tasted the same (I'm not a cook so I don't know how old cooking equipment works and how it can make food taste better) but that was the main reason. The other reason was that when out of town people came to town they do their shopping on the south end of town and don't know how good Whitey's is and they arn't going to travel all the way downtown just to see if there is a restaurant they might like, that is why you are seeing more restaurants going up on the south end of town. Yes, when Greg ran it it always made a little bit of money but not like the Blue Moose, Applebee's or Mikes. The thing that really sank it was the way Dave ran it, from his belittling of employees to straight up lies. There is only room in town for ONE extravagant restaurant and that is Saunders. Dave thought he could put up a fight against Saunders and he lost big time (not only did he lose but the people who put their trust in him lost too). I've come to see that most people (not on here) don't really care for name recognition or history when it comes to a restaurant and that's kind of sad but it is the way it sort of works these days.

If you ask Greg Stennes about how business was before he sold it he will tell you that it was never the greatest. Even when they had there slot machine promotion (where you played the slot machine and whatever year it landed on you payed that price from that time) business was never that great. The sad thing is I think it took something like this to get people to remember Whitey's and maybe the new investors will reep the benefits of Dave Norman's excuse's. I feel bad for the people who bought into Dave's crap, I'm just glad their names won't be reveled because they never wanted to see Whitey's end up like this.

idk who coachdags is but im going to assume he owned dagwoods and if that is true i will join in and say, WE WANT COACHDAGS!

The whole dinner and a movie isn't what it used to be, with prices for dinner and movies going up its hard to go to both let alone either one. That was there plan was to stop payment on everything until Dave was out and with Dave being the liar he is it was hard. I know three of the investors personally and they are really sad that it had to come down to this but hopefully they regroup and get someone who isn't a totally idiot to run the place.

Sorry to inform you gfhockey but the people who bought it were good people and invested a lot of money into Dave's BS and they pretty much stopped funding it until they could get Dave out. The thing many people don't know is that Dave was never the actual owner, only a manager. One of the MAJOR investers was a guy from the cities who has bailed out Denny Hecker and when he found out the way Dave was running it he pulled out of it and left the rest of the investors high and dry. Another thing was that Whiteys was going downhill for a long time, it has never been the same since the flood. What is interesting is the people who say they will miss it but how often did they go down there? I'm not blaming the people of EGF or GF but it is just in a bad location with everything moving away from the river, no one wants to travel to downtown GF/EGF just to eat anymore.

steelers were the better team? hmmmmm....beg to differ my friend. the steelers defense at times looked slow anc confused, where was polomalu or harrison? big ben was way out of sink in the 2nd half it was unreal....over throwing balls to players "that cant be over thrown", under thrown balls...the list could go on and on....speaking of that, where was hines ward? you can have your opinion that the steelers were the better team but in reality we all know the better team won! just think how deep the pack will be next year (if there is an nfl) when their number one starters come back! their 2nd and 3rd stringers will be super bowl experienced!

Friday - Trupp Saturday - Marto

i know you and AZSIOUX have the most knowledge about sioux jerseys but i was wondering if either of you guys could help me out on this one? i currently have a calender that shows President Reagan at the University on October 17th, 1986 holding up a sioux hockey jersey with the blackhawk logo in the middle with north on top and dakota on the bottom. has this jersey ever been worn on the ice before?

i was definitely getting a little nervous after woodson and driver went down and jordy nelson kept dropping balls but the cool thing about rodgers was that he never got pissed he just kept going back to nelson and eventually it worked out. the steelers just looked out of it from the beginning, i think they thought that they were going to go into the game and steam roll this packers squad. big ben just looked fat and out of shape as did james harrison. mendenhall and randle el looked like the only two players who gave it their all. all and all great game and the better team won!

well im glad some people dont know what they are talking about....SUPER BOWL CHAMPS BABY!

ive never jumped on any bandwagon i cant stand the vikings for various reason and winning isnt one of them

GO GREEN BAY!

SIOUX HOCKEY PLAYER GETS FROSTBITE AFTER HE LOST HIS SHOE TAKING SHORT CUT THROUGH A YARD, ENDS UP AT REGIONS HOSPITAL! umm if you read something like this of course your would think alcohol was involved and if you didnt than you are the naive one my friend! if there are more important thing to worry about then why do you spend the time to respond to my post? and over the years of watching this board there are a lot of people on here that think the sioux are angels....they are the first to blast other teams/players but when one of "our" guys does something stupid they say its no big deal or lets wait and see what happened first before we jump to conclusion. do i really think hak would lie to us...prolly not but like i said earlier when you play a D1 sport like hockey and are drafted by an NHL team you darn right people believe they have the "right" to know! i also believe the Habs would have a right to know because they used a draft pick on him and they prolly want to know if this issue will affect his future and IF alcohol was involved then yes they have the right to know because they could see it as being a problem not as "kids just being kids"

i would say go even if the sioux don't make it. the FF is a great place to watch college hockey and even better if the sioux make it!

no, i'm not surprised and like i said i expected to get blasted by people; but when we all know he lost his shoe in a snowbank taking a short cut you start to wonder, especially with all the run-ins the team has had with the law the past few years that involves alcohol. in the end its a forum and people can have logical discussions on here but people have to remember that since these players play for a high profile hockey program they will be under scrutiny all the time. so when a good story is reported they better be prepared to handle a story like this where there are a lot of unanswered questions. its hard to believe people that stick up for him and say alcohol wasn't involved when not only kristo but the team has a history of alcohol related run-ins with the law. all i am saying is people need to stop having this mentality that the sioux never do anything wrong. this wouldnt even be that big of a deal if people didnt take it so personally. on a side note do you think that hak would rat out his own player to the media if he was drinking underage? if he did that wouldn't he be opening a can of worms for not only kristo but the other guys who either drank or supplied the booze? just a thought....

well that's good!...although it doesn't say if booze was involved or not

then this thread should be shut down because everything that is said is speculation. if you don't like peoples opinion don't read, its that simple.

that is very good news, it looked like he would be done for a long time!

i guess i get confused on this then. its okay to tell people that "someone" told them he was doing better and blah blah blah but someone (me) gets blasted for posting an opinion (based on past indiscretions from the hockey players) on what he thought might have happened. i guess some people cant take the bad with the good

so does that mean no positive news about his progress? i mean the information hasnt come out yet so technically its speculation still....

drinking alcohol isnt a team violation so alcohol can still be involved

it was toews and and oshie who were with him....

besides the letting out of the police car (i think he got out of that one) he got a DUI the previous summer

i will prolly catch flax for this response too, but i also thought about that for a minute and if it wasn't severe enough I HIGHLY DOUBT he would go back to st. paul to get checked out if it was minor frostbite. if it wasn't too severe he could get it taken care of here in grand forks and take a few days off and practice with the team later. you don't go to the best hospital in the area that takes care of frostbite just for the heck of it you go there because you probably have a severe case of it! i know its the best hospital because a friend of mine got frostbite on the bottom of her feet because she was drunk and decided to walk around with no shoes on outside.