Who will win the Kurt Bevaqua award
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Who’s willing to take a selfie of the biggest bubble you can blow in honor of this 1977 Topps card below.
Whoever shows the biggest bubble gets the Sports Forum Curt Bevaqua award.
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You can cheat and get your child or pet to participate for you.
What was/is your choice of chew ?
That Bevaqua card was made when times were much simpler.
Bubble Yum was my favorite, occasionally I'd go with Bubbalicious
I wouldn't be posting that if I were you, it's against forum rules, gotta stick to sports. This has been a public service announcement from the forum outlaw.
But then this guy…………
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Started marketing this stuff……… in 1975
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and athletes started mixing the gum with the tobacco.
I tried that skoal once. Accidentally swallowed it. Never again.
Anyone else ever try it ?
Didn’t Tony Gwynn die from it ?
Topps bubble gum, in my opinion, beat them all.
Not the horse leather crap that Topps put in the wax packs. But the little bubble gums sold for one cent which also contained a Bazooka Joe cartoon. The cartoon always sucked, but the gum was great!
Tried it once in college, can't recall the brand. Yea it gave me a little buzz, but I didn't see the value in it for that little buzz. Never did it again. I always thought a cold beer was much better. 🍺
This guy agrees.
PSA loves this guy.
Ok stevek
Athletes in this picture are ???
Athletes here are ????
I used to dip in high school playing baseball, I used Hawken wintergreen, and after practice one afternoon I saw a girl I was cuckoo over cocoa puffs for and tried to hide the dip in the back corner of my mouth so she wouldn't see it, needless to say I accidentally swallowed some of it and almost choked myself out from it. Needless to say, I never again dipped after that.
Miller Lite had great commercials but the beer is gross. I can't stand it.
The guy on the left is Fred Williamson. The others I don't recognize at all.
Lots of guys will wrap bubble gum around leaf chew, I never liked doing that.
I'm a Grizzly wintergreen guy when I dip but it's on a rare occasion. I used to.when I played Softball but it wasn't great to run and dive for balls when you got a mouth full of tobacco juice
I never knew that Rodney Dangerfield was an athlete? 😉
I was riding my bike. First time trying the snuff. Swallowed it and got a huge head rush. Divine intervention to say stay far away from it.
I tell ya, he never gets any respect.
Guy on the right looks like Billy Kilmer.
I guess there was an episode where Fonzie railed against smokeless tobacco, or cigarettes in general?
I would applaud that if he did. 😊
I think you're right now that you mention it.
In middle school they showed us a psa about the consequences of smoking, they showed a pic of a clean healty lung vs a lung of a smoker. The smoker lung looked like an ac filter that hadn't been replaced in years! I made my decision there that I didn't want mine being like that and have never smoked to this day!
The other pic is a bit too easy, although there are around four who I don't recognize.
The guy up front that many may not recognize is author Mickey Spillane.
Always made me laugh when somebody is wolfing down a large cheesesteak with all the fixins, french fries, etc, while drinking a lite beer. As if the lite beer is going to do much good as far as the calorie intake. 😆
I enjoyed Marlboro and Newport in the 6th grade and I never knew it was bad for you circa 1970.
Not sure why I quit but glad I did.
Marijuana lasted a little longer. Ages 13-20.
Lots of ball players smoked and Earl Weaver chain smoked in the dugout.
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Babe Ruth died from throat cancer at age 53.
I’m not sure if people knew the risks back then. Doctors didn’t have X-ray machines for lungs until 1950ish I believe.
I really don't know the history of smoking and health awareness. Although Honus Wagner cancelled his T206 card in 1909 because he didn't want to be associated with tobacco. So something negative must have been known about tobacco back then.
I approve the Fonz
Interesting that there is no date on the flip
They perhaps asked for auto authentic without Pack authentic.
I'm guessing the pack had to have been from the 1950's when Happy Days was happening.
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Shouldn't the pack be signed Arthur Fonzarelli ?
Don't know the rest
My cards on COMC
The one player is Nick Buoniconti, not Billy Kilmer.
The bald guy in front of Ben Davidson is Ray Nitschke.
The guy in front of Ray Nitschke is Whitey Ford.
The guy in the back center, I keep thinking may be John Madden, but I'm not sure.
Yep.... I'm a dipper....
I wanna say Matt Snell....that would be my pick...
Isn’t that Tommy Heinson from the Celtics?
Can you name the characters and their real names?
I'm not too sure on Chuck's name...