"You realize you're going to have the word Poo on your back?"-Goose
Last night the Goose and I met up for a little 253 reminiscing and to search for the ever shrinking stock pile of Hawks jerseys. Of course all of the star players are selling like hot cakes but if you want a Josh Brown number “3” they got plenty of them. Well, I had decided on getting a “51” jersey. It was a hard choice, go with the Rookie or the vet “38”, yes they do make a Mack Strong jersey. Which in my opinion if pretty awesome, I might even throw around the term RAD. I promised myself that if Seattle went all the way this year I was going to get a jersey because I couldn’t deny that I was a hawks fan and a huge fan of Mani’s son. Hey I was an undersized middle linebacker in Pee Wee Football so I know a little bit about his situation. Me and Him we got a lot in common.
This was a huge step for me… I’ve never owned an NFL jersey. Yep, not even a John Elway jersey. Right now my mom and grandma are rolling over but you know what mom and mo I don’t care. After I got the jersey I hung it up on the wall just to look at it and I said to myself “The Hawks are in the game man, I still don’t believe it". I have really become attached to this city and this Teal Curtin. This isn’t the same as when the Co’s won it all but it is right up there for me. The more I realize it and accept it... I am a Seattleite. Call me a Joe (i.e.: bandwagon jumper) I don’t care. I have lived here the majority of my life and don’t plan on leaving. The Co’s will always be my team but I just hope the Seattle Seahawks have room for one more fan.
posted by Train at 11:50 AM
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I love being quoted in the title of a blog. Especially bringing up "poo"
not to rip on your childhood memories but as the legend goes. The birth of the Jtrain was as a fullback,not as a linebacker.
I was moved by the post. Welcome back Train
Just an observation:
This is coming from a guy who not two weeks ago had a conversation with me about how he wants to move back to Denver because it's "Better".
Wow. The MCP calls out the Train. Tells him to get the hell off my bandwagon. There is no room for you mexican.
Seahawk Jersey Update: JC Penny has Jerseys for fifty bucks. (rather than 75) however you are limited to #8 #37 or #82
The Train was born in High School where I played Fullback. Pee Wee was dedicated to ILB and DT.
oh and Jayne... You are seriously damaging my calm!
Hey, there's room on the bandwagon for everyone, I just wanted to add a little perspective
leave it to Train to give the heart/emotion post about purchasing a Hawks jersey...and MCP I've heard the Denver argument before, so I don't put a whole lot of weight in Train's "new found team"...congrats on the Jersey though...can't wait to see it next Sunday...oh...and you can bet Kenny Easley will be present!!!...best 15 bux I ever spent on EBay
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This coming from a guy who gets a free pass for his love for the Cowboys and the Seahawks... Some how that is acceptable.
Cowboys, huh?
Yeah...I don't even need to make a comment on that one. Oh well, at least it's not the Ravens.
it's fairly simple Train...I don't know how someone who grew up in Denver rooting for the Broncos to BEAT the Seahawks twice a year until just recently, can suddenly be ok with this...
it would be relative to me moving to NY about 5 years ago and Tags swapping the GMen and Jets and then the GMen making it to the playoffs representing the AFC and me picking up a Strahan jersey because of it...I hate the GMen not as much as the Skins, but equal amounts with the Eagles and Donovan's F'n Mom...it wouldn't matter to me if they moved to W. Seattle and represented my block...I'd still root against them...
As for the Dallas thing...yeah...I'm a big f'n sellout/poser/bandwagon jumper right?...the first year I began watching the Cowboys let me give you some stats:
7-9
Top QB: Steve f'n Pelleur & Danny "I'm actually a punter" White= 3700 yds 20td 22int
RB: H. Walker/T. Dorsett=1500 yds 17td
WR: T. Hill/M. Sherrard=90rec 1500 8td
and bonus points if you can name the year and the kicker from that team (this only really applies to Goose, since he's the only one that would know something like this)
let me just finish with this, yeah they had some success, yeah it wasn't hard to root for them '91-'97, but anyone who sat through the 1-15 and the recent pre-Parcells era...oh yeah and my entire family is from Texas...so I feel as though I have a bit of validation behind my decision, and yeah...the Hawks and the 'Boys rarely played when I was growing up, therefore I could like both w/o there ever being a conflict...
I wonder if transplanted Seattlelites begin to like the Broncos after several years in Denver?
sorry, that last line should read...I wonder if a resident 'Hawks fan would begin to like the Rams/49ers if re-located to one of those cities?...just curious?...we'll cite Dude as our test case...Dudereno, would you dig on some Bulger love if living in the Gateway to the West ?
sadly I think I know. rafael septien?
Well, Jim it is fairly simple to someone who grew up in Denver. I never hated the Seahawks and neither did anyone else in Denver we just hated Brian Bosworth. It was like having the Cardinals in your division. They were harmless and only did something once a decade.
Now if I moved to Kansas City, Oakland or San Diego and like in your scenario they flipped to the NFC there would be no way in hell I would be buying a Tomlinson jersey. See I hate those teams with passion. I would disown my child if he/she/it became a fan of any of those teams. The Hawks never gave me/Denver the same felling. I didn’t go to bed wishing in my prays that the Raiders team plan would crash on its way to Denver or that Derrick Thomas would die in a car acicc… never mind…
Hey, I am not questioning your allegiance to the Cowboys but don’t you have a little problem with the Hawks now being in the NFC. I seem to remember a game played this year featuring Dallas and Seattle. Seems like you have a bigger question them me. How can you root for two teams that are now in your same conference? Well I don’t care you just do they are your teams, you have been with them through think and think. I have been with the Broncos through the same things. I don’t have a problem with it just have problems with your free pass…. Where can I get mine? Plus lets be honest here you hate the Broncos and love to rag on me any chance you get.
I dealt with Tommy Maddox, Shawn Moore, Gene Lang, Tony Lilly, losing seasons, horrible Super Bowl losses. I think we all get that you like the Boys no matter what.
You remember when Reeves tried to two QB system in ’92? Tommy Maddox and Shawn Moore – I try not to.
can we send the dude to houston for a year and see if he becomes a Texans fan?
that would make for gripping reality TV...our Big D in the home of BBQ...(and bonus points for the Saptien reference)
& Train, please man...let it go, seems like I've touched a nerve w/ the subject that YOU brought up...hey, its ok, you can like the Hawks, its a free NFL, you can jump from team to team if you want...nobody's judging you...well, except for me and MCP, but that's it...really
Train. that Derrick Thomas comment was tasteless. That was beneath you
I can picture it now. Randomly abducting him in a black van ala "old school" (including telling Megan "If you tell anyone I'll F**KING KILL YOU! Don't worry, don't worry, we'll have him home by dinner"). Then throwing a bag over his head, paying an illegal immigrant $200 to drive him down to Houston, while taking his wallet and his keys. Then when he gets there, have the driver ditch him on the side of the road.
A year later, we'll fly down to Houston to pick him up...if he's not dead.
Why do we have to pay an illegal immigrant if we have our own latino flava?
Yeah, the comment did piss me off Jim, especially telling me to let it go. Coming from the king of PS2 controler throwing.
and yes, the Thomas comment was beneath me but I am just in a pissy mood.
It's good to be the king...and the more I think about this 1 year in Houston Idea, I like it...could be the Lodge's first venture into the small screen...
seriously Train...this is the Lodge...bustin' chops is what we're here to do...its just a good thing Chuck Norris isn't here to witness this...or we'd all have size 15 bootprints in our foreheads...
Goose...we pay an illegal immigrant, because it's way funnier if the Dude is trapped in a car with a bag over his head with someone who doesn't speak a word of english. The only spanish Jordan knows is from what he learned off of the menu at taco bell.
Seondly, it's time's like these that make me happy that I was raised here and stuck with a series of seriously bad Seattle teams. That way, when they start doing good, I got no one who can talk trash.
I should really pipe in and give my 2 cents on this topic, but I am having WAY too much fun just sitting back and watching. Its like a train wreck.
There's only one way to settle this.
Train and Jimbo.
In a ten foot high STEEL CAGE!
with BARB WIRE on top!
Two men enter.
One man leaves.
>In best Rick Flair voice< WOOOOO!
Get it? TRAIN Wreck?
a "Train Wreck"? Enter Goose, the mean lean, pun machine!
BARB WIRE? That horrible Pamala Andreson movie?
How cool would it have been if Barb Wire starred Chuck Norris?
Whatever, I won't even remember this on monday.
Plus, the 1st amendment of the Lodge constitution: Joe is and will always be...an a*s!. Jimmy can never be called that.
I'd pay to see a fight between Jimbo & Train. My money would be on Edwards... of course, he is an only child and there is a good chance that he's never been in a fight in his life. On Jordan's side, he is from Kent which gives him hick credibility & he's 1/2 Mexican which gives him the unpredictability factor that knives could be involved. An intriguing matchup nonetheless. I'd like to hear other Lodge members predictions in a Jimbo/Train Fightclub match.
One thing I am wondering about is: How did the mysterious "Joe is an ass" statement get thrown into the mix on this one? I'm born & raised in the 206, and haven't rooted for another NFL team in my life (You guys can claim I rooted for the Ravens, but that was only for the SB. And each one of you guys picked a team to root for in the SB the past few years, so suck it.). So don't throw me into this Train bandwagon jumping argument.
Hmmmm the Jimbo/Train matchup.
Train holds the size edge but Jimmy is wirery and has a mean streak. Thats a tough call but I'd have to take Jimmy in an upset. Knives or no Knives (Besides, Jimmy may be packing...you never know about Cowboy fans)
got a pound of Maui Wowi in my trunk and semi-auto's in the passanger-side...you know how we do...anyway...I'm not going to get into a bitch-off w/ Train over who's shovelling the most sh*t, quite frankely I don't give a sh*t who he roots for, I'm just saying stick to your guns and show a little backbone for your original team, how you do it, is up to you...
2.0...I don't think anyone objected to the 1st amendment of the Lodge constitution, and seriously, "he's an only child, so I doubt he's ever been in a fight"...?...some seriously flawed logic in that one buddy, but, good try 2.0, maybe we'll take the training wheels off your smack talk soon...ok lil' Joey, here you go...make sure to pedal...faster...faster...OH NO...TURN, TURN...
Well, Jim I really can't get mad anymore. I mean you have posted a great picture..."This one's for Jordan".... Plus, Friday I was low on my meds. I know what you mean about sticking to my team, which I do and you do too. We will just learn to co-exist in this one. Plus, I really can't quit you man...
2.0. So with your logic I must fight like a girl since I only grew up with a sister and by your logic you must be Cinderella Man since you grew up with 2 brothers. hmmmm....
Well...I didn't want to be the one to say it, but yes, you do fight like a girl.
Like a scrawny 6 year old girl with pigtails.
MCP playing the roll of Salacious Crumb...oooohhhdaaa...ooooohhhhheeeeeeaaaaaaaaaa....I'm sure in his head he's ready for a thrown down, similar to Mallrats:
"You think because a guy reads comics he can't start some sh*t!!!"
"Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, "the Whale," they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."
So who is the producer that will talk to me in makin' this happen...and will they physically hurt me when I start rootin' for the hawks in Houston?
I think Jimbo is scrappy and Jordan has the size...it could be a toss up!
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