Wednesday, June 21, 2006
No Purple Shirts
6/20/06
Our competition shirts finally arrived yesterday to go along with the amazing apparel package we got from Maccabi USA. Just a quick tangent about the apparel package — I had been told that this would be a better package than we received for Israel and boy is that the truth! We received a large duffle bag; a backpack; a Nautica windbreaker; a navy Nike track suit for the Opening Ceremony; a hoodie sweatshirt for the Closing Ceremony; four t-shirts, two of which are really nice; three baseball hats; two polo shirts; and a few pins. Needless to say, we're outfitted pretty nicely.
So why did I say "no purple shirts" above? Well, when I opened the box with last year's competition shirts, it was a case of "one of these things is not like the other" — one of our shirts was a purple polyester button-down, with a black collar and pink piping. Damn did we look sexy in those (and we have the pictures to prove it), but I was hoping this year's selection would be more classic looking.
Way to go David Spiegel! A red, a white, and a blue polo shirt, each with a Maccabi Australia emblem on the left breast and "USA" across the back, were neatly folded in the box. Add a few pairs of khaki slacks, and I'm about ready to bowl!
For those of you who don't remember the famed purple shirts (most of which are now happily residing in Mexico or Venezuela), take a look at this:
Our competition shirts finally arrived yesterday to go along with the amazing apparel package we got from Maccabi USA. Just a quick tangent about the apparel package — I had been told that this would be a better package than we received for Israel and boy is that the truth! We received a large duffle bag; a backpack; a Nautica windbreaker; a navy Nike track suit for the Opening Ceremony; a hoodie sweatshirt for the Closing Ceremony; four t-shirts, two of which are really nice; three baseball hats; two polo shirts; and a few pins. Needless to say, we're outfitted pretty nicely.
So why did I say "no purple shirts" above? Well, when I opened the box with last year's competition shirts, it was a case of "one of these things is not like the other" — one of our shirts was a purple polyester button-down, with a black collar and pink piping. Damn did we look sexy in those (and we have the pictures to prove it), but I was hoping this year's selection would be more classic looking.
Way to go David Spiegel! A red, a white, and a blue polo shirt, each with a Maccabi Australia emblem on the left breast and "USA" across the back, were neatly folded in the box. Add a few pairs of khaki slacks, and I'm about ready to bowl!
For those of you who don't remember the famed purple shirts (most of which are now happily residing in Mexico or Venezuela), take a look at this:
# posted by Matthew Halpern @ 2:25 PM 
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Hey Matt,
You also have a purple shirt residing in England!! I recently wore it for the first round of our qualifiers for the European Maccabi Games in Rome 2007 and bowled 1658 over the 8 game block. It was a really hot day and the shirt is much cooler than a polo, and I can take all the wisecracks that were aimed at me!!!
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You also have a purple shirt residing in England!! I recently wore it for the first round of our qualifiers for the European Maccabi Games in Rome 2007 and bowled 1658 over the 8 game block. It was a really hot day and the shirt is much cooler than a polo, and I can take all the wisecracks that were aimed at me!!!
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