There is a gradual decline in the intervening flotsam and jetsam of the two older brothers until finally there's just a battered shoe box from the Johnson administration that contains the momentous events (such as they were) of my kiddom.
So it's with great pride that I present the following swell snapshot from my past. Yup, that's the old man coaching/yelling and apparently posing for a JC Penney's catalog with my basketball team. Fifth Graders to the one of us with the meanest illegal zone defense that league ever saw. We had double screens, out of bounds plays and every other pick up, street ball way to cheat the old man had ever learned the hard way.
Yes, that's me with the bad bowl cut, untucked t-shirt and red Chuck Taylors. Yup, a rebel even back then. I don't roll to no league dress code. Thank goodness the socks aren't pulled up any higher. And those sideburns show that we're locked in the depths of the 70's.
Yup, a "Coaches kid." Just like having your own little field general on the floor: calling out defensive switches, knowing when to take time out, hitting all the free throw shots, setting illegal screens, passing the ball out of bounds frequently from watching too many Magic Johnson highlights. Although back then it was probably Jerry West.
Of course I'm not paying attention. Why? I'm going to shoot as soon as I get the rock. That's "the ball" for you kids who aren't hep to the street lingo of the basketball scene.
No idea who that hanger on in the Mickey Mouse tee is by the way. Probably someone's little bother.
It would be about six more years before reality set in that I was going to be too slow and too small and too bad to do this professionally.
5 comments:
OMG, look at those shorts. Nice legs T.
I want to get all Mary Kay Letourneau on your junior high ass.
So...the kid in the background? It's a rather "fey" model pose. I wonder where he is now.
And you really do have nice legs, Kim is right. :)
And that young man in the Mickey Mouse t-shirt would grow up to become..... Leonardo DiCaprio. Now you know the rest of the story.
And back then he was just Lenny.
Great pic!!
You look tall...although Abigail Breslin looks tall to me! :)
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