OT- fictional football characters

[CWSooner]

CPO jackets.  Hadn't thought of those in a while.

They went very well with chukka boots.

I have a pair of chukka boots now.  I wear 'em with my non-name brand blue jeans on weekends.

Billy Clyde Puckett might have worn chukka boots.

[FearlessF]

Small world.  I grilled those center cut pork steaks HEB dry rubs.  Good stuff.  Cheap, tender, tasty.

I buy the center cut pork loins for under $2/lb.  Have the butcher chop them about 1 1/2" thick.  Some I marinate, some dry rub, 
pan fried or grilled, very tender.  not much for bbq sauce.  use salsa or hot sauce or mostly just season salt and black pepper

[utee94]

I like BBQ sauce as a mop for grilling chicken.

Or for dipping your white wonder bread into whilst eating BBQ.

That's about it.

I'm doing the other half of the pork chops today, in the slow cooker, with some apples, onions, and carrots.

[FearlessF]

that will be very good

I usually reserve the crock pot for the pork roast.  Sometimes I have the butcher leave a nice crock pot sized chunk of the loin when cutting chops.

some of the spicy BBQ sauces are OK, I'm not big into the sweet sugary sauces.  Chipotle is good. 

[CharleyHorse46]

I see myself as a Steve Buscemi type and I've always pictured CW as the dignified, scholarly type like James Avery the man who played Will's uncle on Fresh Prince- three piece suit and exasperated air and all.

So to learn we're both brothers in chukka boots and CPO jackets makes me reassess everything.

[BrownCounty]

Course the staples of my wardrobe 1976 - 1980 were 28 x 34 Levi Big Bellbottom jeans and black pocket T shirts.

I just thought they were thick flannels.  My wardrobe 1978-1982:

* Flannel shirt untucked, unbuttoned, sleeves rolled up
* Black concert t-shirt  (Aero, Kiss, Nugent, Rush, etc)
* Levi's jeans (28 x 32 likely - I'm 34 x 34 now)
* Red wing work boots
* Sometimes a belt with a stupid rock group belt buckle (boy was that ghey)
* Hair combed in wings and hanging everywhere

Kids were labeled freaks or socials (or dorks) where I went.

How I turned out right is anybody's guess.  I went through the rock band thing before college.  Then grew up.

[CharleyHorse46]

What kind of car did you drive, BC?   I’m trying figure out if we would’ve been buds are sworn enemies.

Actually... i was pretty simple minded back in the day.   I liked everybody except the current gf’s exes.   There seemed to be an obligation to hate them.   Not sure why.

[CharleyHorse46]

And too soon mullet guy.  I hated too soon mullet guy.

I wore my hair to my shoulders until the summer of 1980 when I decided to follow Glenn Frey’s lead on the Long Run album and cut it short and go preppy.  And thus I was until around the time of Steve Perry’s Oh Sherry video  (1984) when I decided to grow a mullet which I wore until about 1990 or1991 when I decided to go with a long banged grown out bowl cut I could shake into place with a toss of the head.

Yeah I was that guy and I hated pre-Oh Sherry mullet guy with a fashion.

What I loved however were the green haired mohawk Drag kids of the early 80s.   They just wanted to be different but ironically there were so freak8ng many of them.

[utee94]

Steve Perry was wearing a mullet before Oh Sherry.  He was pretty much all long-hair for Escape, but for just about every video off Frontiers, he was sporting that classic Perry-mullet.

So what makes his first solo hit the distinguishing break in time for you?

[BrownCounty]

What kind of car did you drive, BC?   I’m trying figure out if we would’ve been buds are sworn enemies.

I drove my mom's Pontiac Catalina for almost a year.  (Got a "hardship" license at 15)  Saved a little dough and bought a '79 Z28.  My dad co-signed for me.  Black on black, gold striping.  Put Cragar mags on it and those stupid aluminum louvers on the back window.  Installed Pioneer sound system.

If I wasn't driving that car, I would sometimes just sit in the yard and stare at it.

[BrownCounty]

And too soon mullet guy.  I hated too soon mullet guy.

I may have been too soon mullet guy.  I wore my hair long but I also enjoyed the punk rocker look on top.

If you think about it, that's really kinda what a mullet came to be.  The punk rock look combined with the hard rocker look.

[BrownCounty]

Steve Perry was wearing a mullet before Oh Sherry.  He was pretty much all long-hair for Escape, but for just about every video off Frontiers, he was sporting that classic Perry-mullet.

Infinity thru Frontiers was a good run for Journey.

[utee94]

Indeed it was.  Raised on Radio and the Visionquest Soundtrack had some good Journey tunes, too.  But for complete whole albums, that Infinity-Frontiers run is hard to top.