Thursday, November 08, 2007

Dear Gardner Webb

Gardner Webb, I don't know who you are, but apparently you're one hell of a basketball player. I heard that you dropped 84 on Kentucky last night and beat them by yourself. No matter how hard I look, though, I can't seem to find a picture of you. However, you've got a very WASP-y name, one that seems more suited to professional golf than basketball. I can just hear it:

"And today on the final day of the Masters, with just three holes to go, Gardner Webb leads Sergio by four shots..."

Are you tall? Fat? White? I wish I knew. All I do know is that you made Ashley Judd sad by single-handedly beating her Kentucky Wildcats.

Do you know what Adolph Rupp would say if he were alive today? Probably something like, "Help! Let me out of here! It's dark in this box!"

Regardless, Mr. Webb, I will be on the lookout for you and your team which, arrogantly, you've insisted on being named after you. I'll be watching at the draft next summer when hopefully the Knicks will have a shot at bringing you to New York to help bring some honor back to the franchise.

After all, if you can score 84 in a college game against Kentucky, who needs Kobe and his measly 81-point games?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok, so I was at that game last night. Yes, he's white. And thin. And very scrappy. But he can shoot the ball and had a pretty hot girlfriend in the stands...

Anonymous said...

Not sure if anybody cares but the leading scorer for Gardner Webb (Grayson Flittner) came out of Sharpsville Indiana a small town 5 miles south of Kokomo (45 minutes north of Indianapolis) ... just another guy that can shoot the rock, and does the small things...

Anonymous said...

I think they said he's a walk on, too, which makes it that much more impressive. His girlfriend plays on their girls' team.

Anonymous said...

Me thinks "anonymous" works at the Gardner Webb PR office. Or rather, he/she is the Gardner Webb PR office.

I thought this one was posted by Tim until I say the Knicks comment. Wow - the Knicks will take ANYBODY at this point.

boilerdowd said...

Gardner Webb represent!

Anonymous said...

paul... actually THIS "anonymous" recently graduated from purdue but formerly resided in Kokomo, so I got to see Flittner, and Meranda Burnett (Flittner's girlfriend, and captain on Tri-Central's 3 consecutive 1A state basketball championships ('03-'05)) on a daily basis... so yeah basically I'm representing local talent shooting the rock