"Immaculate Reception" by Franco Harris from Terry
Bradshaw against the evil Al Davis Raiders! The
"Miracle on Ice" against the Russians at the Olympics.
Or, the bases loaded home run against the Jim Fregosi
Angels by the dreaded Boston Red Socks...
We won't go on here too much. Each and every sports
fan has a few of their own special moments. Hey,
what about those "Show Time Lakers" with Magic and
Kareem, James Worthy and Coop? Sorry, that was special
as well. But what about sports you hardly think about
much? Tennis, Golf or Soccer? Well, ever since Bjorn
Borg got out of tennis, along with John McEnroe, Jimmy
Connors and Ile Nastasi...our fan hours watching Tennis
has been restricted to watching Maria Sharapova, because
Chris Everett was always our favorite up until then!
Soccer? No, Beckham was supposed to change our whole
view of this very European, South American sport! Hey,
Brazil is still hot to watch. Saturday El Salvador was
playing the US in a qualifying match and after the quicker
Salvadorians scored 2 goals to nil....we had to shut the
game off...it was just two painful to watch. In the
paper the next day..we found out that the US had come
back in 88 minute of a 90 minute match to tie! Brutal.
Soccer....we save that for World Cup matches with Italy,
Britain, France, Brazil, Argentina, Germany and maybe
Sweden or Netherlands....when it comes to the girls.
OK, now on to Golf....."Tiger Woods". That's it....we
don't have to say more than that. For those those don't
know...Tiger has a house in Newport Beach..."they say".
He has one in Florida too.....but for all intent purposes
...he is our local hero. Don't forget we have Kobe too!!
Kobe maybe having trouble with his old housekeeper fired
over a year ago...but everyone knows....people just love
to sue Kobe!
So, Tiger has another beautiful baby - that's two...a
beautiful Swedish wife and all the known Golden Golf
talent in the world. You don't have to know the difference
between a birdie and a sand trap...to appreciate Tiger's
unbelieveable skills. Yesterday, he started out 5 strokes
back from the leader at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The young pretender Sean O'Hair never had a chance from
the beginning. Tiger was "in the zone" and was living
in "Tiger Land" and steadily caught up to the 26 year old.
It had been nine and half months since Tiger had his very
serious knee surgery repair and won his last tournament.
The scored was tied on the green of the 18th hole at the
Bay Hill Country Club in North Carolina. The sun had set
and only the bearest of light remained. When O'Hair missed
his 22 foot putt for birdie...by two feet..that left a 16
footer for Tiger to make birdie and win the tournament
outright!
OK, the ball had eyes! Of course it went in, of course
Tiger won his sixth major at the Arnold Palmer! Of,
course this well could be the greatest comeback after a
sports surgery ever! Nah, Tiger is an alien. Tiger puts
magnets in the bottom of the cups on every tee. His clubs
are made of Kryptonite! The balls all have nano radar
controlled movement from a spy in sky space satallite!
Those guys in St. Louis, running those radio controlled
drones for the Army all stop what they are doing every
time Tiger pulls out his putter! They aim their lasers
and fire! "Tiger Wins"..."Tiger Wins"...our local hero!
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