I often look through photo albums of me as a child and I
can’t help but laugh. I’m not laughing at the terrible hairstyles my mom
allowed me to have (each funny in their own right) but instead, the odd
selection of clothing. I see a lot of sports clothing with a variety of teams
represented. There’s the mandatory Bears, Cubs, and White Sox gear from my
original home in Chicago, Illinois. But the weird things I see are the unusual
teams like the Oilers, Cowboys, and Eagles. Steelers. Red Sox. Yankees.
Yankees?!!! What was my dad thinking to allow such flip-flopping between sports
teams? I guess he was just letting me be a kid.
Now
that I have daughters I’m doing things a little differently. When it comes to
sports apparel I buy only Padres (or Chargers) related items and they agree to
wear them. We wear clothing and hats emblazoned with the letters “SD” and the
name Padres. We wear the stuff that lets people know that we live in one of the
best cities in the country.
