Well this is awkward

Justacommeman · August 17, 2021 10:00AM

Took my nephews to Hermosa Beach today. They are visiting from Michigan. They are 6'10 and 6'4. Im 6' on a good day. We figured we would play some pick up volleyball. We were waiting for a game and these guys show up. Members of the US Men's Olympic Beach Volleyball Team.

doubledragon · August 17, 2021 10:11AM

That is weird. I had a similar experience in the mid 90s when Linda Hamilton just happened to pop up at a Hotel we were staying at in Richmond Virginia. She actually walked right past me, yeah, freakin' Sarah Connor.

perkdog · August 17, 2021 11:16AM

6’10 and 6’4? You got some big nephews Mark!

Justacommeman · August 17, 2021 11:53AM

@perkdog said:
6’10 and 6’4? You got some big nephews Mark!

Indeed

Max is 17 and is 6'10" and just got his pilots license.

Jack is 18 and is 6'4" and is a hockey prodigy ( until he isn't)

Both are vegetarians. Neither has ever had meat

perkdog · August 17, 2021 12:01PM

Good looking kids, the black nail polish threw me off for a second, at first I was like “Ewww that looks like it hurt” thinking he smashed his finger lol.

Justacommeman · August 17, 2021 12:04PM

The black nail polish thing he gets from me. I'll tell you about it over beers one day

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perkdog · August 17, 2021 12:21PM

@Justacommeman said:
The black nail polish thing he gets from me. I'll tell you about it over beers one day

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Sounds good to me 🍻

keets · August 17, 2021 3:58PM

well, did you guys play???

MsMorrisine · August 17, 2021 4:09PM

Call the game?

Justacommeman · August 17, 2021 5:21PM

@keets said:
well, did you guys play???

Oh we played. Just not with them

@MsMorrisine said:
Call the game?

I watched them for 30 minutes. It was footwork and finesse like a ballet mixed with hitting of a Mack truck. Unreal. They play a different sport. I played a lot of competitive beach VB in Chile in my younger days. This was sobering

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keets · August 17, 2021 6:41PM

when I was younger we played pick-up Football on Sundays at any of several local parks. this was when I was 18-19 before I enlisted, and I was pretty fast and elusive. one Sunday we couldn't find an open field, but did manage after some searching. when we were warming up a couple guys came over and asked if they could play. we said "Sure" but made a fatal mistake: we allowed them to be on the same Team!! these guys were so fast it was mind boggling. on several occasions I closed in to tackle one of them and they high-stepped and ran away like I was standing still. it got to be funny and then tedious.

doubledragon · August 18, 2021 1:45AM

I always liked to play cornerback when we played football in the neighborhood, I was great at reading the quarterbacks eyes and being able to tell where he was going to throw it. I picked off many passes and took them all the way to the house, and I would get such a rush from it.

galaxy27 · August 18, 2021 2:20AM

@doubledragon said:

I always liked to play cornerback when we played football in the neighborhood, I was great at reading the quarterbacks eyes and being able to tell where he was going to throw it. I picked off many passes and took them all the way to the house, and I would get such a rush from it.

incredibly, there is footage of this

double d(eion)'s first house call

where did you learn to high-step & dance like that ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9wqJyipYYg

doubledragon · August 18, 2021 2:30AM

@galaxy27 said:

@doubledragon said:

I always liked to play cornerback when we played football in the neighborhood, I was great at reading the quarterbacks eyes and being able to tell where he was going to throw it. I picked off many passes and took them all the way to the house, and I would get such a rush from it.

incredibly, there is footage of this

double d(eion)'s first house call

where did you learn to high-step & dance like that ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9wqJyipYYg

Actually Deion Sanders was the reason I started playing cornerback, but that's another story, another time. Not now, not now. 🤔

doubledragon · August 18, 2021 3:19AM

Ok, I think now is a great time to tell a little story about my obsession with Deion Sanders. Back in 1994, I was just a young teenage punk who liked to play football in the neighborhood with my friends. I remember it like it was yesterday, Deion Sanders had just left the Atlanta Falcons and joined the 49ers and it just so happens that I was watching NFL on Fox and the 49ers were playing none other than....the Falcons, Deion was going up against his old team. I remember Deion had gotten into a fight with his old teammate Andre Rison during that game, and the Falcons were about to score near the 49ers goal line. So, the ball is snapped and Jeff George throws a pass and Deion pounces on it and picks it off and takes it 94 yards to the house, and he does this little dance after he scores, the Deion shuffle. Here is the scuffle between Deion and Andre Rison.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jll0WRnHKxc

doubledragon · August 18, 2021 3:30AM

And of course here was the Deion shuffle.

doubledragon · August 18, 2021 3:39AM

Anyway, after seeing that game vs the Falcons, I became obsessed with trying to be like him, and bought his jersey, and even bought the Nike shoes he had out, the Nike Air Diamond Turf, and anytime we played football in the neighborhood, I played cornerback and took it damn serious, and made it my business to disrupt the pass or pick it off and take it to the house, and I ALWAYS did the Deion shuffle dance when I scored and I had that dance down perfect. Here's what the shoes looked like.

doubledragon · August 18, 2021 3:41AM

In the mid 90s I didn't try to be like Deion Sanders, I WAS Deion Sanders.

Well this is awkward

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