In another thread a member drew a parallel between learning to get off the block at the sound of the start horn, and Pavlov 's dogs salivating at the sound of a bell. That reminded me of my favorite tee from my college days. On the front: Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? On the back: No, but it makes me drool!
So, that thought led me to thinking about all the cute tee shirts I've seen kids wearing at meets and was wondering what your favorite swim tee shirt saying is?
At the last meet I timed there was a young woman there who was truely very fast. Her tee said, "Don't think of it as losing, think of it as being beaten by a girl!"
Originally posted by bbpolhill
A friend on my team obtained a t-shirt at a New England Masters meet...I'm not sure if I remember it exactly.
It was a comical picture of sperm racing to an unfertilized egg and the caption was something like:
"First place is the only place that matters"
I'm sure I have it wrong, but maybe someone who has seen one can make the correction.
not sure if we're talking about the same shirt, but i saw one this past weekend at the chesapeake bay swim that had a whole fleet of sperm racing, with a caption something like "it doesn't matter who's first off the block. it's the first one to the finish that matters."
either way, both funny (if not rather un-pc!) shirts...
:)
and Baltimore is north of the Mason Dixon line
I'm going to have to call you out on that one Jon....the Mason Dixon line is the border between PA and MD, so technically Maryland (and B-more) is in the "south."
Anyways...I hope our team didn't cause too much trouble with your team at dinner that night at Nats. Thanks for inviting us!
Jen
From Johns Hopkins mid to late '70's:
(Hopkins team mascot is the Blue Jay)
Smoke 'em, Jays
Remember, this was the 70's...we thought that one was hilarious. Too politically incorrect now.
For a while, Johns Hopkins swimmers were
Fueled by Southern Comfort.
When Frank Comfort moved to UNC, that tag went on the Carolina t-shirts for a while.
Never quite made sense, since Frank was from somewhere in Pennsylvania, and Baltimore is north of the Mason Dixon line. Plus, we really only had money for National Bohemian beer. Liquor was well beyond our budget, particularly a name brand.
When Cal Berkeley trained an amazing 30,000 yards in one day, everyone else was incredulous. The swimmers memorialized the event (and psyched everyone else out in the process) when they showed up at NCAAs with a dark blue shirt, lettered in yellow, "30,000 - B.F.D". I'm still convinced that they won the meet before they even got in the pool that year.
My favorite of all time, though, will always be Indiana's
What's Up, Doc? on the right back shoulder of a gray t-shirt. I was fortunate enough to swim at Doc's summer camps for several years as an age grouper. From "Science of Swimming", to multiple NCAA titles, (as swimmer and as coach) and the English Channel swim, Doc Counsilman was The Man.
Last summer I bought a tee shirt on Ocracoke which reads on the back: "Probably too old to be doing this."
From the Sun Belt Masters Championships in Charlotte, Jan. 2006: "Ask me how it feels to be awesome."
In college, we had "go in hard, come out wet". But what I would like to do, is put "Kiss My" on the bottom back of my suit. This way, the folks behind me can get all angry, and fall further behind.:D
On the lighter side, some parallel ha-ha's about our priority problems and attempts to multi-task:
I always chuckle when I see the Hash House Harriers motto:
"We're a drinking club with a running problem"
Or the golf addage:
"A good walk spoiled"
DV
In high school we wanted to use: "Swimmers Always Wear Their Rubber Caps" but coach wouldn't let us.
My younger brothers high school team had shirts that said
"Swimmers Like It Wet"
Apparantly no problem with that.:D
