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Posted: 10/25/2010 10:46:14 AM EDT
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a good athlete will always benefit from good gear
eta: Congrats on the kid being a good athlete. 
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Posted: 10/25/2010 10:46:29 AM EDT
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If she loves it, and she's that good, then those investments in gear could save you a LOT of money come tuition time.
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Posted: 10/25/2010 10:47:36 AM EDT
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Quoted: If she loves it, and she's that good, then those investments in gear could save you a LOT of money come tuition time. No kiddin'! |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:04:39 AM EDT
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If you've got children in H S you're going to pay. There's no way out. Then along comes collage, it gets worse before it gets better.
I've got two girls in college. One played basketball in H S, the other cheered. It was constantly fund raise this, donate that, buy these, gotta have new. What's sad, one girl had to quit because her family couldn't afford it. That's how you can tell when the bullshit has gone to far. Then one got married back in the summer. This wiped me and her mom out. I have no money. 
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:06:48 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: If she loves it, and she's that good, then those investments in gear could save you a LOT of money come tuition time. No kiddin'! how exactly is it saving money when youre already paying it  |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:11:15 AM EDT
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dang dude!
be glad your girl is not in baseball. I have two boys in high school baseball! cleats = 60-100 bucks a year Mitt = 150-350 (we got lucky and bought one from another kid he outgrew for 75 bat = 250-400 this is generally per year except for the mitt. this is before uniform, travel fees etc.... baseball is brutal. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:12:13 AM EDT
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One day she will be able to pay you back for that $240 pair of shoes with her huge income as a professional women's soccer player.
Seriously though, good on you for taking care of your kids whether or not it makes good fiscal sense. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:13:23 AM EDT
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a good athlete will always benefit from good gear eta: Congrats on the kid being a good athlete. Thanks, I really appreciate that... By the way, you wouldn't happen to have a truss I could borrow, would you? I think I've had a blow-out...
No toys for me for a while...this pretty much killed my "rainy day/widows & orphans/money momma don't know about" fund... |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:14:19 AM EDT
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dang dude! be glad your girl is not in baseball. I have two boys in high school baseball! cleats = 60-100 bucks a year Mitt = 150-350 (we got lucky and bought one from another kid he outgrew for 75 bat = 250-400 this is generally per year except for the mitt. this is before uniform, travel fees etc.... baseball is brutal. baseball. hah! you should try fencing.. the metal strip you fence on eats your shoes.. think cheese grater.. a pair lasts about 3 months. blades.. 150 each for the good ones (thats just a striped blade).. I could go on and on.
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:15:10 AM EDT
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dang dude! be glad your girl is not in baseball. I have two boys in high school baseball! cleats = 60-100 bucks a year Mitt = 150-350 (we got lucky and bought one from another kid he outgrew for 75 bat = 250-400 this is generally per year except for the mitt. this is before uniform, travel fees etc.... baseball is brutal. No kidding. Whenever I see you guys postings pics of all your cool guy gear, I just pick up one of the baseball bats I've bought my son and pretend it's the latest, greatest rifle.
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:22:10 AM EDT
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Travel hockey.
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:24:22 AM EDT
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Dude, if she wanted kangaroo leather, why didn't you just get her a pair of Copa's?
I'm just messing with you, mine's a 13y/o ODP goal keeper, she's doing the same things yours are though. Club, HS AND ODP. 'course you can look at it this way, at least you ain't droppin' $145-160 for a pair of gloves every 6-7 games. Plus training gloves at $80 a pair every 6 weeks or so. 
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:25:26 AM EDT
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you guys would shit if you knew how much hockey equipment costs
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:25:48 AM EDT
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You guys are all fucking amateurs.
Daughter #1 is a competitive Irish Dancer. Think 2K for a dress that lasts a year. Yes, I said Two Thousand Dollars. Hard shoes, $200. 6 months tops. Upside is the used dresses still fetch quite a pretty penny. I consider myself lucky that daughter #2 switched from Irish Dance to soccer. I just laugh when she needs a new pair of cleats! |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:30:29 AM EDT
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dang dude! be glad your girl is not in baseball. I have two boys in high school baseball! cleats = 60-100 bucks a year Mitt = 150-350 (we got lucky and bought one from another kid he outgrew for 75 bat = 250-400 this is generally per year except for the mitt. this is before uniform, travel fees etc.... baseball is brutal. baseball. hah! you should try fencing.. the metal strip you fence on eats your shoes.. think cheese grater.. a pair lasts about 3 months. blades.. 150 each for the good ones (thats just a striped blade).. I could go on and on. Cousin James is/was into that shit in high school. His parents spent a ton on him. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:32:17 AM EDT
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Just be glad your kids don't want to race Karts
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:33:00 AM EDT
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Just be glad your kids don't want to race Karts K. You win |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:34:29 AM EDT
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Money spent now on equipment and keeping her liking the game beats tuition to college.
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:34:58 AM EDT
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Quoted: If she loves it, and she's that good, then those investments in gear could save you a LOT of money come tuition time. She might even do well enough to fund her own wedding .... |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:40:24 AM EDT
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Money spent now on equipment and keeping her liking the game beats tuition to college. Exactly. An athletic scholarship based on $240 shoes means more gun/ammo money in a few years. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:43:22 AM EDT
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i can't imagine anything being much more expensive than hockey.
back when i was playing baseball, and EXPENSIVE bat was $120, and an expensive glove (Nokona) was $150. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:48:11 AM EDT
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You guys are all fucking amateurs. Daughter #1 is a competitive Irish Dancer. Think 2K for a dress that lasts a year. Yes, I said Two Thousand Dollars. Hard shoes, $200. 6 months tops. Upside is the used dresses still fetch quite a pretty penny. I consider myself lucky that daughter #2 switched from Irish Dance to soccer. I just laugh when she needs a new pair of cleats! Damn, I guess I really am lucky...my daughter used to do Irish Dance before Soccer...that's where she got her incredible sense of balance & coordination and also the unreal ability to do stuff off-balance and at truly awkward angles... Yeah, dresses were not cheap... She got bored with it and thought Soccer was more fun and exciting... |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:49:15 AM EDT
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You guys are all fucking amateurs. Daughter #1 is a competitive Irish Dancer. Think 2K for a dress that lasts a year. Yes, I said Two Thousand Dollars. Hard shoes, $200. 6 months tops. Upside is the used dresses still fetch quite a pretty penny. I consider myself lucky that daughter #2 switched from Irish Dance to soccer. I just laugh when she needs a new pair of cleats! Damn, I guess I really am lucky...my daughter used to do Irish Dance before Soccer...that's where she got her incredible sense of balance & coordination and also the unreal ability to do stuff off-balance and at truly awkward angles... Yeah, dresses were not cheap... She got bored with it and thought Soccer was more fun and exciting... Ditto on daugter #2. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:53:08 AM EDT
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a good athlete will always benefit from good gear eta: Congrats on the kid being a good athlete. Thanks, I really appreciate that... By the way, you wouldn't happen to have a truss I could borrow, would you? I think I've had a blow-out...
No toys for me for a while...this pretty much killed my "rainy day/widows & orphans/money momma don't know about" fund... I understand your pain. My 15 year old daughter is a varsity cheerleader and plays varsity basketball.
The folks at the local sports stores love to see me coming |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:57:42 AM EDT
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My mother blessed the day me and my two brothers stopped growing during baseball season.
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Posted: 10/25/2010 11:57:59 AM EDT
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I've got a sophomore daughter that plays travel soccer and the 8th grade boy that wrestles on the national circuit. I never have any money.
We just dropped $200 on a weekend wrestling camp and $600 for the travel league soccer. I have had to buy my son 5 pairs of wrestling shoes this year since he is growing so fast. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 1:27:31 PM EDT
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About right, actually.
My first pair of higher-end soccer cleats were Puma King Peles, kangaroo leather, and they were $65 in 1973. That was a lot of jack for soccer shoes back then. They lasted until 1980, when I bought a pair of Puma Super Kings-again kangaroo leather-for $95. I mink oiled them once a year. I used those shoes for soccer AND softball, until I flat wore them out and tossed them in 1995. You get what you pay for, and when it came to my soccer shoes I spared NO expense. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 1:35:53 PM EDT
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dang dude! be glad your girl is not in baseball. I have two boys in high school baseball! cleats = 60-100 bucks a year Mitt = 150-350 (we got lucky and bought one from another kid he outgrew for 75 bat = 250-400 this is generally per year except for the mitt. this is before uniform, travel fees etc.... baseball is brutal. baseball. hah! you should try fencing.. the metal strip you fence on eats your shoes.. think cheese grater.. a pair lasts about 3 months. blades.. 150 each for the good ones (thats just a striped blade).. I could go on and on. Have you guys heard of this sport called shooting? The guns you buy are really expensive and you can't have just one. Then they cost you extra money every time you pull the trigger. Then there's special protective gear you need that you don't use with hardly any other sport... Plus range fees, club memberships, competition fees... I could go on and on.
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Posted: 10/25/2010 1:37:30 PM EDT
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Once you find the cleats which fit your daughter, try online stores such as Eastbay.com.
My daughter had a pair of the kangaroo leather cleats for soccer, she said they were the best pair she's ever had. I don't remember the brand. They didn't like wet weather, we had several weeks where it seemed to rain every other day and the uppers started to separate from the soles. My daughter did get over 4 months out of them, her position/playing style probably had something to do with how long they lasted. So if your daughter is burning through cleats every 4 months, you may want to start looking now for a cheaper source. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 1:39:25 PM EDT
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Actually, that's a good price for Kangaroo leather shoes. A few years ago, a pair would fetch you between $400-500.
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Posted: 10/25/2010 1:58:43 PM EDT
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Quoted: dang dude! be glad your girl is not in baseball. I have two boys in high school baseball! cleats = 60-100 bucks a year Mitt = 150-350 (we got lucky and bought one from another kid he outgrew for 75 bat = 250-400 this is generally per year except for the mitt. this is before uniform, travel fees etc.... baseball is brutal. Try hockey. |
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Posted: 10/25/2010 2:06:08 PM EDT
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Quoted:
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dang dude! be glad your girl is not in baseball. I have two boys in high school baseball! cleats = 60-100 bucks a year Mitt = 150-350 (we got lucky and bought one from another kid he outgrew for 75 bat = 250-400 this is generally per year except for the mitt. this is before uniform, travel fees etc.... baseball is brutal. Try hockey. As a goalie 
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:43:53 AM EDT
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My brother's daughter found that she's quite good at equestrian events. He was telling me last wekend about how it's killing him finacially. He drives a car with 260,000 miles on it so she can continue. He's got more into her sport in a year than all of the guns in my safe are worth and I have some really nice guns...
FB |
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:03:58 PM EDT
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Quoted: I told my boys they would NOT be goalies Quoted: Quoted: dang dude! be glad your girl is not in baseball. I have two boys in high school baseball! cleats = 60-100 bucks a year Mitt = 150-350 (we got lucky and bought one from another kid he outgrew for 75 bat = 250-400 this is generally per year except for the mitt. this is before uniform, travel fees etc.... baseball is brutal. Try hockey. As a goalie |
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:10:36 PM EDT
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Travel hockey. one of my kids as to play hockey once. i beat him senseless with a hockey stick so he'd be afraid of it. I have heard horror stories |
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:15:16 PM EDT
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A one time purchase of $240 or 6 purchases of $60? Over time you can forget how much those shoes cost. The cheap ones will keep reminding you of how cheap they are.
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:15:51 PM EDT
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Quoted: you guys would shit if you knew how much hockey equipment costs Plus the actual activity costs are significant as well. Peewees at our local association is $700 for the season, then beyond that it's real easy to be knocking on 4 digits for equipment, even if you lease skates. Just imagine having a kid that plays hockey October to March and races motocross April to September. That would be a doozy of a double whammy. Thank God my son doesn't race anymore. |
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:22:41 PM EDT
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Soccer is small time. Smallbore. The price of those shoes doesn't buy a front sight.
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:25:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: Our Peewee travel fees were $1450 for the season, plus actual travel costs, plus friendly games, plus tournaments, plus...you get the idea. My son loves it, plus we get some quality father/son time when we travel. You just have to go into it with your eyes and wallet open.Quoted: you guys would shit if you knew how much hockey equipment costs Plus the actual activity costs are significant as well. Peewees at our local association is $700 for the season, then beyond that it's real easy to be knocking on 4 digits for equipment, even if you lease skates. Just imagine having a kid that plays hockey October to March and races motocross April to September. That would be a doozy of a double whammy. Thank God my son doesn't race anymore. |
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:25:25 PM EDT
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Quoted: My brother's daughter found that she's quite good at equestrian events. He was telling me last wekend about how it's killing him finacially. He drives a car with 260,000 miles on it so she can continue. He's got more into her sport in a year than all of the guns in my safe are worth and I have some really nice guns... FB Ooooo... Yeah, that's gotta be up there. |
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Posted: 10/26/2010 7:32:19 PM EDT
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Quoted: i guess you never went?If you've got children in H S you're going to pay. There's no way out. Then along comes collage, it gets worse before it gets better. I've got two girls in college. One played basketball in H S, the other cheered. It was constantly fund raise this, donate that, buy these, gotta have new. What's sad, one girl had to quit because her family couldn't afford it. That's how you can tell when the bullshit has gone to far. Then one got married back in the summer. This wiped me and her mom out. I have no money. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 5:31:58 AM EDT
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Just and FYI OP, kangaroo leather soccer shoes last longer than twice as long as cow leather (from my experience with soccer shoes); they also mold to you foot better. I couldn't justify spending $240 on a pair of cleats for myself, but good for her
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Posted: 10/27/2010 7:38:35 AM EDT
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I'll stop bitching about vet bills for our cats now.
Good thing the wife and I agree on "No kids" early on. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 7:43:33 AM EDT
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Just be glad your kids don't want to race Karts Been there done that.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 7:44:04 AM EDT
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My brother's daughter found that she's quite good at equestrian events. He was telling me last wekend about how it's killing him finacially. He drives a car with 260,000 miles on it so she can continue. He's got more into her sport in a year than all of the guns in my safe are worth and I have some really nice guns... FB Horse Poor. I've, so far, dodged that bullet. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 7:44:11 AM EDT
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The big 12 has soccer?
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Posted: 10/27/2010 8:38:43 AM EDT
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Quoted: The big 12 has soccer?  |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 8:39:33 AM EDT
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The big 12 has soccer? http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-soccer/auto_bsi_wide/5882128.jpeg FAIL for the display of Nike gear. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 8:45:20 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The big 12 has soccer? http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-soccer/auto_bsi_wide/5882128.jpeg FAIL for the display of Nike gear. If you spotted the Nike swoosh instead of the blonde on the left, I have some bad news for you... |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 8:46:30 AM EDT
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Oh, I noticed her. My hatred for all things Nike trumped her in this case however.
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