I?m sure a lot of you have been itching to know how the
handshake thing went down. Since I introduced my new counter/prank/another dumb thing that I do that will probably upset a few people, we have played games against Purdue and Minnesota. The Purdue game yielded one solid embracing handshake from a semi-member of the Purdue chapter of Club Trillion. Bobby Riddell (or as the Purdue fans like to call him, ?Bobby Buckets?)
fully engaged himself in the handshake like a true champion. But before you get excited, understand that Bobby and I have a history. We played in the same conference in high school and have a mutual respect for each other?s trillion obtaining abilities. Also, I?m pretty confident Bobby reads the blog and there is a decent chance that he read it before the game, so he may have known the whole time what I was about to do. Nonetheless, I?m counting it.
As far as the Minnesota game, the Director of Basketball Operations for Minnesota, Joe Esposito, hit me with the one arm hug/handshake/what do you call that thing? right after the game. As I mentioned in the classic ?
Love In An Elevator? entry, Joe reads the blog, so like Bobby he probably had a heads up about my antics. Again like Bobby, I?m counting it. This brings our total to two in two games. Not bad really.
One Armed Embraces: 2 to date (1 last game)
Bone-Crushing Screens: 1 to date (0 last game)