Friday, September 22, 2006

How I became a Packers fan?

I love cheap bargains. Just a couple of days before me leaving Bangalore to NY, I was at Indiranagar, when I ran into a street vendor selling long thick long sleeved T-shirts. I was asked to pack as much winter gear as possible. So, i dug into the pile to find large size ones. I really liked the green one, which read 'Green Bay Packers' with a big G in the middle. Who cares!

Here at NY, I pulled out my winter gear earlier than expected. My green polo was perfect for the high teens (no farenhiet please). I was proud to wear my, *ahem* Rs. 50 bargain T-shirt.

Suddenly I was a little worried! What if the packers were a secret cult, or may be banned terrorist outfit. So I googled. Here is what I found out:
  • The packers are an NFL team from Green Bay, Wisconsin
  • They are the only publicly owned NFL team in the US. Members of the Green Bay community own the team
It turned out that my dear friend Sara (not my ex-roomate and mento Sara), who is from Wisconsin, is a huge packers fan. So I was invited to watch the Packers game this Sunday, at a local bar, where I can meet other Wisconsinites, and show-off my T-shirt!

Go Packers.

9 comments:

Sudarshan said...

ambathu rubavukku evalo scene .... thanga mudiyiliye...

IdeaSmith said...

Right after a post about free food, another one on cheap tee-shirts? Not doing wonders for your PR especially as a hip world-traveller, Santa!

Krithiga said...

Damn. I'm late. Someone already has left a comment calling this post "scene".

Maya Cassis said...

hey there!stumbled in here and I can see you had a lot of fun with the green T.

Sudarshan said...

Hey shaky check out the link below..
http://www.southendzone.com/rocky/

u might want to be careful while wearing the t-shirt :)

Jaya said...

India rocks man! Even I bought some cheap winter wear in Chennai (ofcourse it was cheap.. who'd risk dying in them?) which I happily flaunted out here in UC.. Hmm.. here we pay an equivalent of 2000 bucks for a decent sweatshirt.. and u r further doomed if u want something wiht University logos in them

Ponnarasi Kothandaraman said...

Hahaha.. Nice post.. Meaningful 2 :)

mysorean said...

Well, being the lowly Indian I am, I could think of only "Packers and Movers". That was the nearest match in terms of filename! LOL!

Good post Santhosh!

IdeaSmith said...

A new blog and a new template? LOL...I lurve the pic there. You should consider shifting to Wordpress...the features really are better there.