I've seen a few different post on the sight that I found to be very interesting from basketball, baseball, football to music and fashion. I know that this is a basketball sight, and we LIKE to talk about UCONN basketball all the time, but, every so often, it's nice to change up the subject line.
For one, I'm really amazed at how much the BY'ers know about music. Music has always been one of my passions, and so has sports. I got to thinking; I don't remember ever seeing a thread like this. I may have missed it because I don't check the boneyard every day or I go for weeks for that matter without checking in and looking at the thread lines.
I decided to start a thread (I think it may be my first, don't remember) about who we had as our sports heroes growing up. I was very active in sports for most of my healthy and active life and I still remember my sports heroes I had as a kid.
So, I'll start it off.
My very first sports hero I ever had as a kid was Harmon Killebrew with the Minnesota Twins. I remember I liked him because he hit monstrous home runs and he was one of the nice guys in baseball. You didn't ever have to worry about him throwing a bat, a glove or a tantrum, he was always the same, good or bad. I will always remember Harmon Killebrew and what he meant to me as a kid, a great role model and someone I would have loved to meet.
As I got into following football later on, my football hero was Alan Page with, you guessed it, the Minnesota Vikings. I wore his number in junior high school and in high school and even played the same position he did. I loved putting on jersey #88 and trying to emulate everything he did. He was tough, quick and smart on top of everything else.
There they are, my two first sports heroes I had as a kid.
Baseball: Harmon Killebrew
Football: Alan Page
For one, I'm really amazed at how much the BY'ers know about music. Music has always been one of my passions, and so has sports. I got to thinking; I don't remember ever seeing a thread like this. I may have missed it because I don't check the boneyard every day or I go for weeks for that matter without checking in and looking at the thread lines.
I decided to start a thread (I think it may be my first, don't remember) about who we had as our sports heroes growing up. I was very active in sports for most of my healthy and active life and I still remember my sports heroes I had as a kid.
So, I'll start it off.
My very first sports hero I ever had as a kid was Harmon Killebrew with the Minnesota Twins. I remember I liked him because he hit monstrous home runs and he was one of the nice guys in baseball. You didn't ever have to worry about him throwing a bat, a glove or a tantrum, he was always the same, good or bad. I will always remember Harmon Killebrew and what he meant to me as a kid, a great role model and someone I would have loved to meet.
As I got into following football later on, my football hero was Alan Page with, you guessed it, the Minnesota Vikings. I wore his number in junior high school and in high school and even played the same position he did. I loved putting on jersey #88 and trying to emulate everything he did. He was tough, quick and smart on top of everything else.
There they are, my two first sports heroes I had as a kid.
Baseball: Harmon Killebrew
Football: Alan Page
