The Bow Belle

Today is Joe Montana's birthday.  He's sixty-eight like Uncle Man-Child and Uncle From St. Louis.  My dad liked Joe Montana a lot when Joe was in his youth, so why not wear my Chiefs bow today? Football season is MONTHS away, but since when have I let that stop me? Interestingly, Joe Montana only spent one year with the Chiefs, and he was on the injured list much of the time.  For most of his NFL tenure Montana played for the 49ers, a team that I can take or leave.  I don't pay much attention to San Francisco unless they have an earthquake or a riot.  Anyway, Joe Montana's birthday is today, so happy birthday, Mr. Montana! Pigskin pride, RagingMoon1987

Today is the anniversary of the "Heidi Bowl."  I love football anyway, and it's football season (the Titans aren't doing so well), so I'm wearing a football skin bow.  Etsy shop is kraftyelves , the same bunch that brought y'all my baseball skin bow . Oh, the Heidi Bowl.  For the uninitiated, the Heidi Bowl was a regular old NFL football game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets.  In 1968 the Raiders and the Jets had a rivalry that equaled those between Auburn and Alabama or between the Cardinals and the Cubs.  The resulting game was a donniebrook that ran long in its three-hour time slot.  That was a problem because NBC, who was airing the game, had Heidi scheduled to start at 7 P.M. sharp, and they'd promised Timex (sponsoring the flick) that there would be no delays .  Long story short, NBC cut the game with the Jets ahead and one minute, one second left on the clock.  While football fans were being forced to watch a dumb movie a...

Bridge Day isn't really a holiday of sorts, but for West Virginians it's a big deal.  The event is a festival held on the third Saturday of October , and people come from far and wide to celebrate New River Gorge Bridge .  Oh my word, it's a beautiful area out there, and the bridge is pretty too.  I like arch bridges. At one time New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge, and it's still the longest one here in the U.S.  It's also the third highest bridge in the country, behind only Royal Gorge Bridge (located in Colorado), and Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Arizona-Nevada border).  During Bridge Day road traffic is closed and pedestrians are allowed onto the bridge.  It is legal to BASE jump and rappel from the bridge during the festival, though you'd never catch me dead doing either one.  The more rural Tunney Hunsaker Bridge also sees a lot of foot traffic during the festival, for those who hate heights ...

Today is Malden High School's homecoming football game (they've already lost their first two games), and for that I present this lovely gem of a hair bow.  The Etsy shop is another one that no longer exists, TheDepotLakeviewOhio. Green and gold satin for the Green Wave.  Yep, Malden totally ripped off Tulane University .  We ripped off Alabama too, as during games the crowd is encouraged to yell "ROLL WAVE!!!"  Oh well, I doubt either Tulane or Alabama would care if they knew.  Heck, they might even be flattered! It's ironic, but I have more school spirit now than I ever did in high school.  In high school I resented the adulation that the jocks (especially the football players) got.  They weren't bad guys like teen movies would have one believe; quite the contrary, they were nice guys and many of them were my friends.  But to me it seemed that the football team got everything, and everyone else had to make do with leftovers.  I was on the ac...

None other than my late father's favorite team! Win or lose, Daddy loved the Kansas City Chiefs...and unfortunately, while he was alive the Chiefs usually lost.  I don't know why Daddy picked them as his favorite team, but he did, and when Daddy loved something, his love was both enthusiastic and contagious.  The Chiefs are not my absolute favorite team (that title goes to the Tennessee Titans), but they'll always be special.  As for the bow, Mama custom-ordered that for me shortly before the Super Bowl, and I planned to wear it even if they lost.  Sadly I do not know the name of the Etsy store, but it can't be too hard to figure out. Happy Saturday,  RagingMoon1987