for the gush wrote:
Do tattoos and piercings give one more character too? I'm trying to build character and it sounds like you know a lot about it.
Tattoos and piercings make you look like a mall rat.
for the gush wrote:
Do tattoos and piercings give one more character too? I'm trying to build character and it sounds like you know a lot about it.
Tattoos and piercings make you look like a mall rat.
for the rush: great stuff. thanks for the stories. ignore the juvenile bullshit. that stuff is forgotten as soon as you click off the page but stories like yours endure.
Yeah, ignore the juvenile bullshit, and let's get back to being grown adults drooling over our hero-athletes.
I was visiting a friend in Reedsport, Oregon. He told me about a young kid that had just been cut from the Coos Bay softball team. I was told the kid was really sad and needed some cheering up.
So I ran down to Coos Bay and knocked on his door. Pre opened the door and his eyes got all big and bugged out:
"You're Gerry Lindgren", He said. "You are skinny! You're just a wimp! I can beat you! Look at how small you are."
At that point he jumped off his porch and compared his size to my wimpy body, while still talking.
I didn't get in a single word. I started getting irritated with his boastful behavior so I turned around and started running back up to Reedsport. Pre told me several years later that he went back inside his house, put on running shoes, and chased after me up the highway for several miles. I didn't know. I never looked back.
Two years later I met him again as one of the premier high school distance runners in America. Can you imagine my surprise?
hahahahaha..good story!
Dr. Freeman from Campbell University was at U of O when Pre was there. He thinks Pre was a "dumbass". Freeman's a funny man, he's got all kinds of stories to tell. Talk to him. campbell.edu
&1 wrote:
All right, so you ran with Pre. You "know" him better than many people on the board. But your stories read like something from the Brothers Grimm. Pre was talented and pushed himself hard. Okay. Got it. That's the formula for being among the top of your sport. But to say he went somewhere that 99.9% of people have never been is just plain wrong. You want to critize the junior high mentality but you employ descriptions like this? A great bedtime story. But most of us are adults and I think we're a little beyond believing in characteristics most frequently associated with Gods. He was fast and he raced well.
And about his being a nice guy... I can't stand when athletes get themselves into trouble, and people let them off the hook by saying, "You don't know how it is being under a microscope." It's not that difficult to lead a straight life. But when these athletes pop off about how great they are, or they break laws/rules/social ethics they must pay a price. Every description people have of this guy is extreme. Perhaps he was bi-polar. But to counter the cocky/asshole claims by saying he was a really nice guy is meaningless. Most likely he was lived in a state of many emotions... something 99.9% of us have all known.
This is the limitation of message boards. For every 50 people who would enjoy hearing what Pre was like from some who knew him, there's always going to be that one dweeb in bum-f*** Indiana who is going to puff himself up and put down someone for sharing a personal memory of Pre.
It's unfortunate that one can only achieve satisfaction through the putting down of others. Me, I've got a couple personal stories about Prefontaine, but I'm going to keep them to myself. No sense in making some jealous loser more jealous. The reality is that there are quite a few people on this board who knew Pre, and are saddened when people have to use the way he died to try to generate some humor.
I have some Pre stories and you don't. Get over it.