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General Discussion => Talk Zone => Topic started by: Taras Bulba on January 15, 2007, 04:25:19 pm
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My father, like a lot of Houston firefighters, often could obtain access to sporting events, with some half-ass reason of official business. On the occasion of the Super Bowl in Houston between Miami and Minnesota, I was standing next to him outside of one of the Rice Stadium turnstiles when up walked one Howard Cosell (this was at Cosell's high water mark with MNF). The attendant, a salty old guy with the obligatory Pall Mall hanging out of his mouth asked Mr. Cosell for his ticket, to which he stated, "Why, I'm Howard Cosell." His reply was one of those that my dad and I talked about until the day he died last year: "I don't give a good goddamn who you are-- you ain't gittin in without no ticket."
I kind of miss those old guys lighting up their Camels or Pall Malls or Chesterfields (all no filter, of course) with a quick close of the Zippo.
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My father's ad agency bought some ad time with the Oilers for a couple of years in the run n' shoot era, and so every year he'd get an invite to some KTRH sponsored thing at a hotel ballroom in Greenway plaza where the invitees got to mingle and have casual conversations with most of the Oiler players, who were instructed to stand there and listen and respond to every stupid question like you were their good buddy. The Oiler players clearly were also instructed to dress up, as all wore at least ties (and the fancy pants like Warren Moon and Ernest Givens wore three-piece suits). So I remember one year where William Fuller ("The Fuller Rush Man") comes in about halfway through the event wearing wrinkled pants and a wrinkly dress shirt that's half untucked, and he heads straight for the buffet table, piles a couple of plates sky high, and proceeds to do nothing but sit and eat for the next two hours. That's it, that's my story.
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Nice stories. I happened to be a weasly freshman in the Ball High School marching band in 1977 when said band was asked to march during halftime at the Oilers/Broncos game. I got to meet Oail Andrew Phillips, had sideline seats for the game (those dome sidelines went on forever) and I tripped over one of the many seams in the infamous Astrodome turf.
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hey, i was at that Super Bowl. did you see me?
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hey, i was at that Super Bowl. did you see me?
Sure. You were the old guy complaining about all the young pussies who wear facemasks.
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Sure. You were the old guy complaining about all the young pussies who wear facemasks.
Facemasks? He was probably still stewing over the introduction of leather helmets six decades earlier.
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You guys are brutal. But funny.
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nah--me 'n Gerald F. played without them.
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You guys are brutal. But funny.
You know, with all the uncertainly in life, it's nice to know that old-man smack just never goes out of style.
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and it is oh, so funny, every time! you guys are comedic geniuses.
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and it is oh, so funny, every time! you guys are comedic geniuses.
We're giggling like schoolgirls while you roll your eyes.
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and it is oh, so funny, every time! you guys are comedic geniuses.
And speaking of being old...I recently started to feel it. I just accepted a new job, and one fo the major factors in deciding to do so was the retirement package. 10 years ago, it would have never occurred to me that retirement was a bigger factor than salary.
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and it is oh, so funny, every time! you guys are comedic geniuses.
I opt for the low-hanging fruit.
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and it is oh, so funny, every time! you guys are comedic geniuses.
I opt for the low-hanging fruit.
I thought when you got older you refered to as sagging, not low-hanging... NTTAWWT
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and it is oh, so funny, every time! you guys are comedic geniuses.
I opt for the low-hanging fruit.
I thought when you got older you refered to as sagging, not low-hanging... NTTAWWT
I was more surprised that he call JimR a fruit.
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and it is oh, so funny, every time! you guys are comedic geniuses.
I opt for the low-hanging fruit.
I thought when you got older you refered to as sagging, not low-hanging... NTTAWWT
I was more surprised that he call JimR a fruit.
And, at least so far, got away with it!
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and it is oh, so funny, every time! you guys are comedic geniuses.
I opt for the low-hanging fruit.
I thought when you got older you refered to as sagging, not low-hanging... NTTAWWT
I was more surprised that he call JimR a fruit.
And, at least so far, got away with it!
It occurred to me before that the WFW Factor has abated significantly since Jim R.'s recent betrothal.
Perhaps he is getting old and losing his edge. Or maybe just expending his aggressive energy in other ways now, possibly.
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no, i think i have weathered divorce and remarriage without losing the WFW factor. that is for others to say, though.