OT: Favorite Pro Athletes as a Kid

[tomtom80]

Carl Yastrzemski. Made my mom buy YAZ bread(a poor mans Wonder bread) Thinking it would make me an MLB-er. I ended up an accountant

 

[Chin Diesel]

Ric Flair
Don Muraco
Barry Windham
SD Jones

SD Jones. Great reference to the ultimate jobber. I'd love to use him as a comparison more often for those who just aren't quite good enough to get the job done, but he's too obscure to make it work.

For example, I could say UConn jumping offside on a missed FG yesterday which directly led to a SMU TD two plays later was a great SD Jones move. So close to being right.

He the fisherman with the dollar bill in the insurance commercial teasing would be customers.

 

[Chin Diesel]

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First real pair of basketball shoes were bought because of Dominque. I think they were Brooks.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Yeah I wasn't so much mad at Seaver as much as just sad at the whole ordeal. I was 11 years old and that was the end of my innocence as a sports fan, and my introduction to the reality of rooting for laundry. I remained a Seaver fan--I still have the SI with him on the cover in a Reds hat right after the trade--and a Mets fan, but just a more jaded one. My father grew up in Brooklyn and was a Brooklyn Dodger fan but he abandoned them when O'Malley moved them to LA and he never forgave O'Malley. He adopted the Mets when they came into existence and that's how I ended up a Mets fan. But after the Seaver trade I began to allow myself to like players on other teams, which at that time meant Freddy Lynn, Yaz, Johnny Bench, pretty much the whole Pirates team.

Wow, same age and same story with my Dad (grew up in Manhasset) & the Mets. He was such a Yankee fan as a kid that he had people call him Phil after Rizzuto, but never looked back and was a diehard Mets fan.
I obviously stayed a Seaver fan as well and was there to celebrate his 300th win at Yankee stadium.

 

[jibsey]

Mickey and it's not even close.