I am not really a football fan. I have actually seen a football game in person, at my high school when I was a student there, and I didn't enjoy it much. Truth be told, I mostly went to ogle the cheerleaders. Most of the game was spent shooing away mosquitos rather than watching anything. But anyway.
I scanned this card today.
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However, I don't think of football when I see or hear of him. I think of the line in Mark Willis' classic "19 Somethin'"
in which he sings "I was Roger Staubach in my back yard, shoebox full of baseball cards".
This song gets fairly regular airplay on the Sirius channel I listen to, and my local radio station before that, meaning I now permanently associate this football player with this song, and vice-versa.
That's it, that's the essay, making the effort to post more so when I was cropping it I thought to myself "I can make a post about this" and here we are.
Always like songs that drop culture references - Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio
ReplyDeleteI had that instantly go into my head when I saw the statue of him at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Manhattan!
DeleteRoger was a little before my time, but he was one of the greats. I'm not sure I knew what style of music you listened to, so going by the fact you hear this song often, I have a great idea now. I thought 19 Something was a good song, and I forgot about that line. I always like the line about Stretch Armstrong, even though I never owned one. Mark Wills had some decent songs, but I could never get behind his version of I Don't Want To Miss A Thing. I might have to listen to this song sometime soon though, as its been a while.
ReplyDeleteNice post. I love posts integrating music with cards or any other items.
I bounce back and forth between Nashville Nation, Women of Country, 90s on 9 and Mosaic, which is a mixture of 90s and 2000s pop with some newer stuff mixed in. My brother has seen what's inside Stretch Armstrong! My mom's best friend's son had one and it apparently exploded when him and my brother were playing with it back in the day.
DeleteOh man... that kid had Vader's Tie. I would have loved that toy as a kid.
ReplyDeleteWe never got that one but we do have the original TIE my brother got for Christmas 1977! It's turned yellowish now as most of them have but the electronics still worked last time we had it out.
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