{"id":8063,"date":"2010-10-22T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2010-10-22T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T22:55:42","slug":"nerf-basketball-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/22\/nerf-basketball-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerf basketball FAIL!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I got most of the pieces ready for my Bruce Pearl costume. I figure most people will recognize who I am when they see me dressed in a loud orange jacket and orange tie. I’m also going to have a UT emblem on the jacket for further clarification. However, in case some people still don’t get it, I wanted to buy one additional prop – an orange basketball.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want a full-size one… too hard to carry around when I’ll be carrying a beer most of the time as well. I wanted a mini-basketball, something I could easily hold in one hand. I went to a couple of sporting goods centers and struck out. Oh, they had mini-basketballs, but they were Grizzlies basketballs or they were red white and blue. I wanted a basketball that looked like a basketball that would be used in an NCAA game.<\/p>\n

Then I went to Target and found this:<\/p>\n

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“That’s as close as I’m going to come,” I thought. “I can get a Sharpie and paint the black stripes on the Nerf ball.” So I bought it.<\/p>\n

Today I took it out of its case and this is what I found:<\/p>\n

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WTF?????<\/strong> Why would anyone produce a basketball that looks like this? Half orange, half blue? Except in Florida Gator country this thing is useless. No one has a real basketball that looks like this. I can’t take this out with me – I’d look like a bigger idiot than the real Bruce Pearl! Nerf should be brought up on truth-in-advertising charges for their packaging of this product.<\/p>\n

If anyone knows where I can get a mini-basketball that looks like an official NCAA ball (or close enough, orange with black stripes), let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I got most of the pieces ready for my Bruce Pearl costume. I figure most people will recognize who I am when they see me dressed in a loud orange jacket and orange tie. I’m also going to have a UT emblem on the jacket for further clarification. However, in case some people … Continue reading “Nerf basketball FAIL!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}