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XClown


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Im young

 

21

 

This started in 1st grade...  every week we would have an auction..  for how good we were, we would earn " Rose Bucks"..  my 1st grade teacher was Mrs. Rose.....  I live in SW VA....  anyway.  we can either partake in in weekly auction or save or bucks... 

 

well, me and my first grade sweetheart alexis would save our poo week after week..  while fools would spend their poo weekly on candy, color books, god knows what..  me and my hott ass 1st grade girlfriend would save, week after WEEK

 

well, it was the last week of school..  i was a transfer student cause my step dad landed a job in Bedford Va (my home town)     anyway, my hott ass 1st grade gf had first dibs...  not in the ordinary "treasure chest"      

 

no

 

we went for the "cabinet".  werent no candy no color books...  BIG prizes

 

Big plush orange basketball pillow..

Big plush blue football pillow..

 

she had more bucks...  she got morre bucks...

 

 

I wanted that football..  

 

I wanted it bad..

 

last week of school, all this good behavior went to this ..  i coulda ate glue, chucked dodgeballs at kids faces, poo/puke on the floor....   no

 

Eye on the prize..  I wanted that blue football plush pillow..

 

anyway...  she gets first dib..  

 

she...  picks.. the..  Orange basketball..

 

idk what team..  

 

dont matter..

 

I walk over to the cabinet..    Its a blue plush pillow.  football shapped.. its literally a football but soft..  theres a black cat logo on it..  "cool" i thought..  didnt kniw what the fug it was..

 

UNTILL my dad had on the Panthers@Rams playoff game..   

 

oh poo..  that team has my pillow logo on their helmet!!

 

Xclown..

 

 

 

 

Panther fan ever SINCE

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1997. 10 years old. Pops just bought a shiny new Playstation, and Madden 98. 

We load up our first head to head match. I was a little dipshit and knew nothing about Football, except the Patriots (I was raised in New England for 20 years.). fug that, I don't want to like what everyone else likes. 

Flipping through teams, spot a team with a badass color scheme and a cool logo.

Almost 20 years later and I have my Panthers man cave, and can still hear Pat Summerall saying "Biakabutuka" over and over again.

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22 now. 2001, go with Dad to local gas station. I pick up a Bud Light NFL Season Preview packet thingy. (Born in LA), liked the Lakers, but no NFL team. 

"Damn, that team has a cool logo."

For the next few years, I'd follow every game on sh*tty dial-up internet through NFL gamecast. (Lived in Texas)

 

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I remember that Rams playoff game. I was supposed to to be working the concession stand at the UNCC basketball game on Clay Aiken bobblehead night. Nobody was in the arena when Clay Aiken sang because everyone was in the lobby watching the panthers game on tv going crazy. I got so many free clay aiken bobbleheads that night to top it off and got on the news singing a clay aiken song all sexy like for the camera

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1990ish, Raiders were in LA making 'Straight Outta Compton*'

*I guess

 

I'm still in a blue color city called San Lorenzo, that anyone outside of the Bay Area has never heard of. My blue collar dad is a die hard A's, Raiders and Warriors fan.

I'm still an A's and Warriors fan today.

In his household you don't root for the posh white collar SF teams. Panthers were announced in 91-93. I was 9-11. They had a prettier blue than Jags (again, I was 10 and have blue eyes) and were in same division as Niners.

 

I had the opportunity to root against the Niners with my dad with Raiders in LA.

 

Rest is history, seriously I repeat this story every playoffs, so fug it at this point. I don't fuging care...

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