I noticed that you're also a fan of the Boston Celtics. I just posted a thread over there on the 2014 mock draft. Call it something to wish for. I'm the MOD on that site & I'm hoping for a very active board come November. Let your friends know about it.
Just finished posting on your thread. We are unique that we follow Yankees/Celtics, bad upbringing I guess is my excuse.
My older brother took me to my first game in 1961. It was the last game of the season & the crowd went nuts when some guy hit a home run. As it turned out the guys name was Roger Maris & he just broke some fat guys season HR record. I was hooked. The following year an older friend of mine that I grew up with in an orphanage on Long Island was watching a basketball game. It was the Celtics & the Cincinnati Royals. They had guys like Russell, Cousy, the Jones Boys & some rookie by the name of John Havlichek. I've been a fan ever since.
Mine was my father, on Saturday we would watch the Game of the Week which seemed to always be Yankees with Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reece behind the mic. Dizzy would always sat to Pee Wee "Well Pardner" and I was thus hooked on Mickey. In Basketball, growing up in upstate NY with cable not invented yet, We would get like 8 channels, 3 of which were Canadian, one English the other French, but Channel 8 was out of Poland Springs Maine and they would carry the Red Soxs and Celtics. So like you, Russell, Satch, KC and Sam, Larry Siegfreid, Hondo, Silas and the likes became my team. Like normal TV back then on an antenna you sometimes got a good picture with no or little audio, so I would turn the radio on and the TV volume down and listen to Johnny Most, Priceless....
...the Game of the Week brings back memories...you probably also remember Diz butchering the English language by saying things like "he slood into second base".....also, do you recall the brand of beer that was a sponsor of the program?...I do.
...nope. ...and I have not seen this particular brand of beer in years...in fact, I'm not sure they even make it anymore.
Well they no longer make the two I mentioned. They also no longer make Schaffer or I believe Pabst blue ribbon. So if its not one of those, I give up.
Falstaff, I actually remember that now, I was thinking Naragansette or Schlitz I couldn't remember, I do however remember the Friday Night Fights on the Philco TV sponsored by Gillette, I can still here the music for the commercial.
