Your Chalmers’ Moment
Posted by msgpdr on April 10, 2008
You really have to start with this.
Chalmers’ shot was made possible by the following sponsors:
Joey Dorsey — silly foul on sideline giving KU two free points and a clock stoppage. Bonus of Dorsey fouling out.
Sherron Collins — stealing inbound pass and making a 3 ball to cut 7 point lead to 4.
Chris Douglas-Roberts — 3 missed free throws.
Derrick Rose — 1 missed free throw.
John Calipari — not calling timeout to settle his troops and to tell them to FOUL for sure when KU crossed midcourt as they had a THREE POINT LEAD.
Mario Chalmers — for making an amazing 3 — Rose was in his face — and reminding all of us desk dwellers how empty our lives are.
Well, the Kansas victory did allow me to win my pool and to finish in the top 10% of all Yahoo Bracket Competitors. This and $4 gets me a latte at Starbucks. Of course all that can be written about the game has been, so I will just point out a couple of tidbits:
- Mario Chalmers given name is Almario and his mom is Almarie
- Sherron Collins has a son, Serri’Marri with his girlfriend, Re’Quiya Aguirre
I know that many of my friends are having kids, so thought this might generate ideas since unique names are so difficult, and Sophia and Ben have been done to death (uh, no offense if your kids have those names 
)
Oh, and now back to the title of this post:
What is your Chalmers’ moment? Mario is unlikely ever to do anything so ‘great’ again, but he always has this moment. Mine, if I rule out a really excellent PowerPoint slide, would probably be hitting a 3-run triple off of Dickey Tompkins when I was 9. Rather pathetic.
I need something to chest bump about, even though I would probably end up like these dorks.
Gene Burrus said
One thing is certain. Mario Chalmers will never ever have to pay for a meal in Lawrence, Kansas again.
My Chalmers moment….probably also a triple. UVA Law School hosts a softball tournament every April that draws 30-40 teams from all over the country. 1991, final game against the University of Texas. 5th inning, 0-0 tie. The gathered home crowd, who were well aware of my feelings for our evil opponent, start singing Boomer Sooner as I approach the plate. Triple to right-center that led to the game winning run and the championship. Law school did wonders for my relative athletic ability.
Either that, or some touchdown catch in a pickup game on Owen Field at OU back in the days when they had astroturf instead of grass and anyone could use the field when there wasn’t a game or practice going on. Just great fun to play football on the same field where you’d just watched the Sooners the weekend before.