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Gallery 1988 is showcasing these ridiculous prints at a show highlighting great moments in sports. This is a wonderful confluence of my love of sports with my love of screenprinted posters. I’ve cropped out a couple of samples below but you should really click through to see these in full-size and the rest of the offerings.
Even if I can’t get my hands on one of the posters, a couple of these will make awesome iPhone wallpapers.
Here’s a shoutout to my buddy Daniel, a lifelong Saints fan, on what was an awesome Super Bowl last night:
Saints Superbowl Victory Celebration from Cottage Films on Vimeo.
These are great! I love that The Pigskin Doctors use Tecmo Bowl to rate current players. The categories are spot-on and are definitely worth a click-through.
From left-to-right those are Ronnie Brown, Adrian Peterson, Chris Johnson, and Sebastian Janikowski.
Mike Singletary is in the NFL Hall of Fame as a player because he was crazy and fearless, but mostly crazy. These are important characteristics of a professional linebacker. They don’t translate as well to the job of coaching professional football players.
I admire his old-school “play hard and shut up” mentality but I think they are going to kill him in the Bay Area press. Still, it’s refreshing to hear this sort of public shaming of the new breed of over-entitled, me-first, ‘I’ in team, modern athlete; even if I don’t think it will fly.
I am so, so glad that football is back and I do love some Brandon Jacobs. This photo is the moment after impact when LaRon Landry tried to tackle Jacobs.
Here is the video:
Our friend Kevin did, and I now know that endurance cycling is not something I want to do.
We were under a canopy right on the bike trail, just after the lap timer, so Kevin and the other riders we were there to support could make pit stops every lap. It was a 9.5 mile loop and they stopped every lap to get water/food as needed and to eventually take breaks. The race is “who makes the most laps in 18 hours”. Kevin won his class, which is 45 and older, by finishing 14 15 (oops, sorry – ed.) laps. He stopped before 18 hours was up because he was so far ahead of the guy in 2nd that there was no way he could be caught. This is the first year he moved up there. He finished 2nd last year in the solo open class.
We probably had 10 people there plus a gaggle of kids for most of the night. There were 5 of us that stayed overnight. We set up our tent but only the girls and I slept in it. Michelle and the others stayed in camping chairs so they could help out with the guys when they came through all night. I had to go lay down around 3:30. Between the late hour and the beer (oh! the beer! – ed.) my Sunday was a complete wash.
There wasn’t a ton for us to do for the riders since they had everything they needed set up before they started. We just kept bottles filled with the right stuff (various energy powders and such) and chatted them up when they took breaks. I really think they enjoyed the late-night company.
It looked like a pretty insane ride. One of the guys was talking about it that morning before they left to set up, “The miles won’t be a problem. We’ve been riding enough to where we won’t have any trouble with the distance. But the mental part is tough. It will be 3am, and you’re riding in the dark and you’ve been on your bike for 11 hours. You start seeing stuff that isn’t there.” He finished in 2nd behind Kevin and was way ahead of the guy in 3rd.
I’ll probably go again next year to help out however I can, it was a good time.
I’ve been doing a lot of bike-related reading this morning and I found this crazy photo at bikehugger.com. Nuts!
Now I just want to go for a ride. I think I will make time for one this weekend.
Altru has a lot of the generic ‘weathered logo’ tees, but these vintage Olympic Logo tees are pretty sharp (if wildly over priced at $34). I especially like the 1964 Tokyo and the 1980 Moscow.
And this cycle group tee is cool, too.
On the other hand, i could go my whole life without seeing those ‘84 Los Angeles designs again. I hated them as a kid and I hate them today.
