NEW FLORIDA RESIDENT BLOG

Welcome to Paradise. When I was a kid, Under Armour wasn't a thing.  When you sweated, your cotton tee shirt got wet and stuck to you.  In the summer, most boys would volunteer to be on the "skin" team in order to avoid a soaking wet shirt plastered against their body, it was uncomfortable, chaffed when you moved and after a time, got cold.  The only saving grace was that everyone knew that tee shirts were for play and dress shirts were for work.  So people looked professional at the office. Then Kevin Plank came along.  He made a moisture wicking tee shirt that was great for sports, dried quick and looked decent during non-sporting events (dressier than a cotton tee shirt).  For some reason, grown men, en masse, decided it was okay to wear this abomination to the office.  It's not. Dress shirts are required for work. It doesn't matter if you are showing property in the heat of July in South West Florida, or any other subtropical location for that matter.

Welcome to Paradise. I grew up near Fenway Park, I actually lived on 'The Fenway', it's a Street.  We could tell whenever one of the Red Sox got a home run by the crowd noise.  But like everyone that has grown up in a city with a professional Sports team - I wasn't a fan.  Kids from the suburbs were, they would wear the merchandise and not have all their good neighborhood parking spots stolen on game night.    If you grow up that way, you think of a sports team as an entertainment device that people from outside the city think is cool.  Sort of like a Bennigan's ,  let's say you drive in from Taunton on a Friday night and you think it's cosmopolitan to order a burger from someone wearing suspenders with several items of flair.  Everyone thinks that you are a mook from the suburbs but, you don't know it.  You're having a good time. I guess this hit me today when I saw someone say that they were excited because the Bears won a big game in Chicago