Thursday, December 14, 2006

It is hard out here


How old is he?
Future Hall-of-Famer Greg Maddux signed with the San Diego Padre. Now I don’t want say that Greg Maddux is getting up there, but his at-bat song is Pachebel’s Canon in D-Minor.

Future Hall-of-Famer Greg Maddux signed with the San Diego Padres. Now I don’t want to say that Maddux is getting up there, but when Maddux played for the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta still had real Indian Braves.

Old School Stud
The San Diego Chargers LaDanian Tomlinson is two points away from breaking the NFL’s 176 points scoring record set by Green Bay Packers Paul Hornung; Paul Hornung’s old-school ways were well chronicled. On a typically morning Hornung would head to the team’s steam bath to sweat out the night before. After practice, several teammates would retreat to Hornung’s apartment for martinis, cigars, cards and laughs. After many, many martinis they would go to dinner at their favorite steak house. Many bottles of wine later, they would hit the bars where Paul was even more notorious for scoring than on the football field.  

Paul Hornung: legendary star athlete, witty good ol’ boy, skilled gambler, charming and handsome womanizer. Sigh. There are so few of us.