http://espn.go.com/sportsbusiness/news/2003/0415/1539387.html Geez, he was living the high life one minute and it all goes downhill.Sorry if this has been posted already.
Hey!!! I can auction myself off as well. I have a pool, a game room, a basketball court...would anyone spend $2500 to hang out with me? (BTW, Smeg, how much did you pay?)
I'll take ya out to the Texas City dike....(you know what I'm talking about)....will that do? (Off topic) A-Train, you have any good dike stories? How about hangin out at the Weingarten parking lot, or is that before your time?
Man, I hardly ever went to the dike...One time my parents locked their keys in the car at Galveston beach and we had to pay some guy to break into our car, but that's it....Yeah, I had a pretty boring childhood. I don't remember Weingarten's, but I do remember when that Store was SafeWay, then it became Apple Tree, now it's a Food King. I remember an old joke. "What does Apple Tree and sex have in common? There's no Safe Way!".
I guess you are too young then....hanging at the Weingarten parking lot was the thing to do. Trying to pick up TC girls while the TC guys were in Santa Fe. Once you got one, you took her to the TC dike...aaah, the memories.
My oldest memory of Texas City was probably when there was a JC Penny's on 6th St. The bottom level had all the adult clothes and the kids level was on top. At the bottom of the staircase leading up to the top was a HUGE Big Bird... yep, that was the highlight of my childhood...talking to a huge Big Bird at the department store...
My mom took us to that JC Penny's every August for school clothes. I remember the stair case, but I don't remember the big bird. Of course, I graduated HS in 81, so my visits there predated big bird himself.
Dude, you were lucky, my mom took me to Sears for back to school clothes! Anybody remember Toughskins jeans? They came in one color, ugly ass blue....not blue, but ugly ass blue, and had about 25 layers of Kevlar in the knees so it was almost impossible to get holes in the knees. I was the Toughskins king! ...and of course, every pair was about 5 sizes too big because I had to "grow into them". Kids these days think they're all bad ass with their baggy jeans...I was baggy before it was cool, ya little punks! Thanks a lot Behad...for the first time in my life, I officially feel old...
A-Train - Ahhh the memories. My mom always bought me those though I forgot the name of them I just remembered getting them at Sears. Even if I did were a hole in them, she'd get the toughskin iron-on patch to put over the hole. That blue never faded either. It's amazing I had any friends at all growing up.
A pair of Toughskins and a Braggin Dragon polo shirt and you were one bad mofo. When McGuire and Canseco broke out I spent many hard earned dollars trying to score their rookie cards.
Ah, memories! We bought school clothes at the Pennys on North Shephard at the intersection of Garden Oaks Boulevard. I can remember when Monday and Thursday werre shopping nights and the store stayed open until 9 PM. Circa 1961-64.
Tough skins came in many colors, my friend. Green, brown, rust red...mmm....fresh. To complete the look with the 'skins, Braggin Dragons you had to have a pair of G.A.S.S. shoes from Thom Mccan. Anybody remember those brown psuedo-suede monstosities?
