Get Off My Lawn
| I was a big fan of the Globetrotters when I was a kid, and at the time, they were the most popular basketball team by far. I followed the Lakers with Wilt, Jerry West, Gail Goodrich, etc, but the Globetrotters were kings, and Meadowlark Lemon was the guy. He was Michael Jordan famous before Jordan played high school ball, he was a global celebrity. Hell, they had their own Saturday cartoon show and variety TV show. It was well known Lemon could consistently make that half-court hook shot whenever he wanted. And speaking of Chamberlain- until his dying days, he always considered Lemon to be the best basketball player in history, even though he never played pro ball.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
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| I saw them play the Dallas Cowboys in 1976 in Little Rock. |
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Happily Retired
| I remember seeing the Globetrotters live when I was around 12 years old. That would have been 1960. The coach took our little league basketball team to the big city. I've been a fan my whole life.
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| My dad took us to see them in the early '70s - Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal were on the team then. I was about ten or eleven and thought it was great.
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