Comments on: Show Me Classy, Dave

By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:22:48 +0000

I had a Reggie poster as a kid that I think was actually a pullout from a magazine. I also had a small Earl Campbell poster where he was in practice gear with a bunch of blood on his thigh pad. I used to take 4 black poster boards and tape them together and then cover them with cut out SI photos that I thought blended together well. I loved sports images as a kid and I guess I still do. I probably made 3 or 4 collages like that before I was a teenager. I used to dream of ordering a bunch of those big SI posters but never did. I guess I liked found photos more.

I’d love to hear the Bronx Banter crew talk about sports photojournalism more. It was a bigger part of sports in the pre-internet, pre-video era.

By: Mr OK Jazz Tokyo

Mr OK Jazz Tokyo — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:57:03 +0000

[11] Boat, I KNEW you’d be a Farrah guy! Bit before my time though, Pops.

I had a Reggie poster of course, and for some reason a family member gave me a NY Jets “Sack Exchange” poster..which was odd as I was mainly a baseball kid and my dad likes the Giants..

By: Boatzilla

Boatzilla — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:40:59 +0000

Uh, my posters were of girls. Farrah Faucet, etc. But I did have a lot of pennants. Yankees, Giants, Raiders, Sooners (my mom was born in Oklahoma and we were big college football fans).

I remember on of my roommates in college had a cool poster of the Giants line-backers during the LT, Harrry Carson era. The headline was something like Big Blue Wrecking Crew.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:37:53 +0000

[9] Very luckily!

By: YankeeAbby

YankeeAbby — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:03:01 +0000

As a 9 or 10 year old, I also remember Burger King having these mini-promo posters with the Yanks from either ’77 or ’78 hung up on my wall

As a 13-year old girly-girl – I had Bobby Nystrom from the NY Islanders on my wall. In the sunshine, blue jeans on, no shirt, looking all Nordic-godlike…swoon!

Alas, sports gave way to the boy band crush of Duran Duran for a while after that but luckily found my way back from the dark side!

By: William J.

William J. — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:57:03 +0000

I had the poster too. If my wife didn’t veto the idea, I would have worn that suit to my wedding.

As an aside, does anyone remember the 1985 pre-All Star break Daily News backpage with the headline “New York’s G-men Get Their Man”? It depicted Gallo images of Gooden and Guidry, who were both having a great first half. I’d love to find a copy. Who knows…maybe someone out there has a copy?

By: rbj

rbj — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:39:09 +0000

Never was that into posters. Well, except for that Farrah one.

By: Sliced Bread

Sliced Bread — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:22:27 +0000

oh yeah, I had Harry Carson and Leonard Marshall posters too.

By: Sliced Bread

Sliced Bread — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:19:48 +0000

My roommate junior year had the Hitman poster.

My brother and I had our walls covered with sports posters and SI covers when we shared a room in the late 70s early 80s. All sports were represented, boxing, Olympics, etc. My favorites were my LT poster, and a great John Jefferson poster that I bought at Cosby’s at MSG. Problem was, our favorite posters always got ripped when we played puff basketball (full contact, of course)

Slightly off topic: Our closet walls were filled with Wacky Packages stickers. But we both turned out alright.

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:11:16 +0000

I used to have the NY Giants “BadFellas” poster in my room and have been hunting for it on eBay ever since

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:10:17 +0000

All the kids in my neighborhood, Mets and Yankee fans alike, had the Hitman poster except me; I wasn’t into sports posters. Actually, most of my wall coverings were either paintings or drawings that I made myself (I was a rather withdrawn kid when not otherwise playing). I think most of the kids considered themselves collectors or budding aficionados; their card collections looked like hedge fund portfolios, and of course the memorabilia was hidden in the back of closets or locked dresser drawers. I was a weird kid, I guess…

By: NY15_4ever

NY15_4ever — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:04:14 +0000

I remember when I was growing up Bucky Dent had a really cute poster out there. He was DREAMY!

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:35:02 +0000

I wanted the Kenny Easley one. I had a Tony Dorsett and Rickey Henderson I think.