Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Thanks to my dad's recognition that cool moments need to be preserved, and my mom's genius for saving just the right things, I just saw the program for the 1967 Central Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame, which, among others, included good ole Ron Kostelnik and Johnny Weissmuller. Aaaa-wah-ah-ah-ahhh--wah-ah-ah aaaaa! Tarzan himself signed the program, [...]
You could fill a library with books about legendary Packer Coach Vince Lombardi and wallpaper a stadium with his quotes. So ubiquitous are the images of him stalking the sidelines in his trench coat and fedora that children whose parents weren't even born during the Lombardi Years still dress like him for Halloween. Coach Lombardi [...]
My friend Amy recently requested that her Facebook friends post their favorite football pictures. I haven't respond yet because I'm still sorting through all those glorious images, both among my files and in my mind. I love football, and I wish I would have played it in high school. I love it as a recreational [...]
Thanks to the generosity and history-making success of the classiest professional sports organization we know, we're in the middle of a glorious, 10-day hobnob. The Packers invited Hall of Fame inductees, and members of the first Super Bowl team, to a reunion this week and, because that's the way they roll, they've included wives of [...]
A poignant article in last week's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reminded me of two powerful lines from To an Athlete Dying Young. "Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay." Famed author and sports commentator Dick Schaap read the A.E. Housman poem at my dad's funeral more than 20 years ago. [...]