Cleveland is a trip we make at least once a year, but for some reason I'd never taken the short drive down the Interstate to Canton for the Football Hall of Fame.
This is the oldest ball in the HOF's collection, probably from the 1890s. I liked looking at the artifacts from the really old days of football because the equipment was drastically different. This is even fatter than a rugby ball. There were a couple of others from the early 1900s that were slimmer, but still more rugby like than today's compact and pointy balls.
This was one of the uniforms worn in the first pro indoor game played around 1902. The pants look a lot like what cricket players wear and I love the elephant seal face mask. The guy who wore this was obviously a pansy because everyone knows the real men didn't wear pads back then. Protection only came around because the government threatened to ban the sport after a few deaths in the early 1900s. You're pathetic if you wear protection while slamming into other people at top speed unless the government makes you.
A Falcons helmet and Saints jersey from the two teams' first season in the NFL. I had to take this because I'm one of those wretched Falcons fans. At least the Saints get the pity vote for being even worse than the Falcons and being set in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Hoodies from the glory days of the
Pottsville Maroons, a team that got screwed out of their league championship way back in the day. This team also helped legitimize the sport by proving the pros could compete against the college teams.
Jim Thorpe's Hall of Fame Bust. I'm a huge fan of this guy. This guy overcame racism against American Indians to be one of the first megastar professional athletes.
This was rough year to be a Tampa Bay fan. At least they had a sense of humor about their team's suckitude.
One of the padded helmets that player Fred Gehrke painted horns onto for his Los Angeles Rams teammates to make the Rams the first team with logos on their helmets in 1948. Pretty cool that the team's helmets still feature the same pattern with only a change in shades sixty years later.
Capybara, the world's largest rodent. I wonder how they taste.
A lorikeet in the Cleveland zoo. You could walk through an enclosure housing several species of the Australian parrots. I got dive bombed by a couple of them, but E was just amazed by these things.
Just a zebra. I have a bunch of other photos from the Cleveland Zoo, but a lot of them are of poor quality because of the glass between the animals and the people and the rest I didn't post because there were just too many to mess with.
This is the oldest ball in the HOF's collection, probably from the 1890s. I liked looking at the artifacts from the really old days of football because the equipment was drastically different. This is even fatter than a rugby ball. There were a couple of others from the early 1900s that were slimmer, but still more rugby like than today's compact and pointy balls.
This was one of the uniforms worn in the first pro indoor game played around 1902. The pants look a lot like what cricket players wear and I love the elephant seal face mask. The guy who wore this was obviously a pansy because everyone knows the real men didn't wear pads back then. Protection only came around because the government threatened to ban the sport after a few deaths in the early 1900s. You're pathetic if you wear protection while slamming into other people at top speed unless the government makes you.
A Falcons helmet and Saints jersey from the two teams' first season in the NFL. I had to take this because I'm one of those wretched Falcons fans. At least the Saints get the pity vote for being even worse than the Falcons and being set in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Hoodies from the glory days of the Pottsville Maroons, a team that got screwed out of their league championship way back in the day. This team also helped legitimize the sport by proving the pros could compete against the college teams.
Jim Thorpe's Hall of Fame Bust. I'm a huge fan of this guy. This guy overcame racism against American Indians to be one of the first megastar professional athletes.
This was rough year to be a Tampa Bay fan. At least they had a sense of humor about their team's suckitude.
One of the padded helmets that player Fred Gehrke painted horns onto for his Los Angeles Rams teammates to make the Rams the first team with logos on their helmets in 1948. Pretty cool that the team's helmets still feature the same pattern with only a change in shades sixty years later.
Capybara, the world's largest rodent. I wonder how they taste.
A lorikeet in the Cleveland zoo. You could walk through an enclosure housing several species of the Australian parrots. I got dive bombed by a couple of them, but E was just amazed by these things.
Just a zebra. I have a bunch of other photos from the Cleveland Zoo, but a lot of them are of poor quality because of the glass between the animals and the people and the rest I didn't post because there were just too many to mess with.
7 comments:
I thought that second photo was some kind of dog-faced Princess Leia mannequin.
We can see why there was no passing game in the early days. Imagine trying to get your hand around that ball.
Also, reread your first sentence under the L.A. Rams helmet photo. It made my head spin a little bit.
I care nothing about the NFL, but I do think "Go for O!" should be Obama's campaign slogan.
You threw me off when you switched from football memorabilia to zoo pictures without any transition. I was confused there for a minute.
I think the large rodent would make a wonderful mascot.
justins: It's really more what the offspring would look like if an elephant seal raped Princess Leia and then that offspring was murdered and taken to a bad taxidermist.
Chris: It was probably a little more than twice the volume of modern footballs. I should have put my hand up next to it for context.
But that wasn't a sentence. It was just a really long label. Most of the photos started with a fragment label. It makes more sense if you don't try to give it a predicate.
Courtney: I think I wrote this around 1 a.m. a few nights ago when I finished choosing and editing all of the photos from the trip. I am sorry for my lack of transition, but I really think the giant rodent kind of signals I was no longer in the football Hall. Besides, if you were memorizing all of my posts as I expect you to do, then you would have been able to instantly relate the photos to the relevant posts from two weeks ago and understood the transitionless jump instantly.
Julie: Yeah, I think the Argentinian national soccer team should go by The Thundering Capybara, although in Spanish of course.
It wasn't that the sentence was a fragment. I got that. The problem was that you replaced all the nouns in the label with word "helmets". I'm pretty sure it was meant to say something else.
Now I just sound like an anal jerkwad. (Is that a porn title?) Thanks a lot, Jacob.
Actually all of those helmets were supposed to be helmets. I dropped a word or two in the middle. That sentence had so many uses of the word that it started to lose meaning and I started wondering if I used the right word. I've corrected the sentence, but there are still a plethora of helmets.
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