Yeah, I know it's Thursday, but I'm naming the Friday Comment Contest winner now anyway, because I won't have time Friday and because I'm still trying to stagger to the January page views finish line.
The repeat winner (and a strong contender week in and week out) is Chris, for his response to my item making fun of Glauber for asking whether Jalen Rose's father, Jimmy Walker, is Jimmy Walker the actor . . . as opposed to Jimmy Walker the former Providence star.
Here it is: "Jimmy 'JJ' Walker being the father of Jalen Rose would be like Huggy Bear being the father of an NFL running back. What? Really?? Never mind."
(WatchDog's explanation: Justin Fargas of the Raiders is, indeed, the son of Antonio Fargas, aka Huggy Bear from "Starsky and Hutch," a show that was on when I was young.)
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I will get you for this. I told you that dinner was a blog-free zone.
You will pay.
I told you that was the one thing I was going to blog from that dinner, you big baby.
Uncle Leo.
Again, much appreciated.
As I flew out to Chicago in 1988 for freshman year at Notre Dame, I was on the same flight as Mr. Walker. He was in First Class and we were in Coach. So, instead of spending the flight thinking about how my life was going to change (etc.), I spent the whole flight contemplating how--a decade past his heyday--JJ could afford such a ticket. So, now, Jimmie (apparently, he goes by Jimmie) and I are even.
Now, if someone could answer the now two decades-old debate that my brother and I have waged--namely, who has more money--Joe Namath or Bubba Smith?
Just a postscript:
As my friend Mike just pointed out to me, Mr. Walker would have a hard time getting past security today with his very catchphrase.