Blake Griffin has been pushing this for a while now with some funny TV spots. Am I the only one who think he looks like Little Orphan Annie made over for hoops? There, I said it. It would be different if he wasn’t wearing the iconic red sweatsuit. How do you guys feel about driving KIAs? There’s a few on them on the road these days and I’ve stared a few minutes too long to see if it was maybe a Hyundai. But I wouldn’t drive it.
Perhaps the Hyundai 3-door Veloster is more your style. One tall person, laying at a diagonal – now what a concept if you really want to fit in it.
Here’s some tidbits on the latest tall guy happenings we’ve seen this first week of the new year:
1. Oh joy. Sahq has become an NBA analyst. I’ll admit I’m a little slow to watch much more than a few of the games on Christmas day, but after seeing this promo on TBS last night I might have got the gentle nudge to get my NBA hat on. I couldn’t resist watching all of his promos for the debut and making the big transition. He might be the funniest tall guy in the biz. I also love how Shaq makes Barkley look tiny.
What more? Here’s one of him doing a little song and dance number. Click to watch.
3. What ever happened to Kwame? Remember when Kwame Brown was drafted as the first superstar to go direct to the bigs from high school? This piece on ESPN by Jay Caspian Kang is an interesting read about when players don’t live up to their legacies.
4. Funny things from Conan this week – I did not know that Gary Oldham was not Old like his character Tailor Tinker Soldier Spy. Pathetic I know. But check out this clip. He might be short but what a set of pipes.
5. Conan joined Chris Isaak last night in a stirring rendition of Ring of Fire. Stirring you ask? Okay that’s embellishing but the tall red-headed Johnny Cash wannabe was playing the guitar pretty fierce. By the way – maybe the tallest country duo happening with Chris Isaak at 6 1/2″ and Conan at 6’4″.
6. A new record for the largest sushi-grade bluefin tuna was set this week in Japan. The friendly fish fetched $763,000 and weighed 593lbs. One tall fish – in some instances this fish is the weight of three tall & fit guys. Appreciate the fanfare and tradition but I wouldn’t want to eat it BBC
Tall men, take note. Charles Barkley has a new big and tall store concept. We’ve been waiting for inspiration here at Longshot Apparel and maybe he’s found the winning combination. Click on the below image to see the skit from SNL – it’s the one with the chicken wings – appropriate huh? It was a great way to kick off the first SNL show of 2012 but let’s hope that big and tall guys style (especially tall) is not going back to the late eighties.
The NBA’s pre-eminent hipster has spent his lockout time working on a documentary, which he says is aimed at exploring what he sees as the steep fall of men’s fashion. The WSJ has the details: “Baron Davis is normally driven to distraction at this time of year by swarming defenses mustered against him on the courts of the National Basketball Association. But Mr. Davis, a 32-year-old point guard with a salary of $13 million, has other things on his mind, specifically the dismal state of men’s fashion. Mr. Davis has spent much of his time during the NBA’s lockout developing a documentary about the decline of style in the U.S. Now that the players have rejected the league’s latest offer and say they plan to file an antitrust lawsuit against the league, he may have a lot more time on his hands. The documentary, ‘American Schlub,’ is in pre-production. It takes aim at the poor sartorial standards of the American male, says Mr. Davis, who plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers. ‘We used to be fashion forward,’ he laments. Now, ‘We’re more of a sweats and Ugg boots type of society,’ he says. ‘We wanted to challenge men, from that perspective.’” At Longshot Apparel we commend Baron Davis’s effort and hope he will discover Longshot Apparel as a remedy to the American Schlub trend.
Racking your brain trying to think of Gift Ideas for the Tall and Skinny Man? Give the noggin a rest and check out the gorgeous, Italian shirts from Longshot Apparel. Made in theUnited States from renowned Italian fabric company Thomas Mason, these tall shirts enhance a tall, lean body rather than detract from it. Great Gift Ideas for the Tall and Skinny Man. While other brands such as Tommy Bahama, Cutter and Buck and Facconable make shirts that fit the “big and tall” man, at Longshot Apparelwe make shirts for guys who are simply tall–not big. This season Longshot Apparel is offering $45 off on all their plaids and patterns. Now stop pondering and get a shirt that fits. He will thank you.
It seems that Garrett McNamara just broke the world record for largest wave surfed by successfully navigating this 90-foot wall of watery death. This tallest wave is 13 feet taller than the previous record—77 feet—that was set by Mike Parsons in 2008. Amazing style and fortitude.
We love you. Your game 6 walk-off home run during the world series was really something. The photo ops after the game, the one in your street clothes, not-so-hot. In fact I’d say off the diamond your a fashion disaster—I’m just sayin’ cause I love you man.
Women’s Wear Daily, the arbiter of all fashionable and faux pas gives you a D- in the apparel category (without the home run who knows what grade they would have given you?). Ouch! Now that you’re a national hero people are going to be watching. We suggest you step it up.
To your credit what the WWD editorial staff failed to mention in their review is your height and slim build. At 6’2”, 220lbs. we understand that you have few options when it comes to apparel that fits your fine, chiseled build. Given your tall stature, strong shoulders and perfectly sculpted pecs you’re probably buying XL from other brands. Most of those companies design their XL shirts like a square box, it’s no wonder you look like a small boy wearing a sumo wrestler’s shirt in the image below.
David, David, David. It’s time you found Longshot Apparel. We’ve got your back. We make shirts for guys just like you. Tall, fit and studly. There is no reason a guy with your income and well honed bod should have to suffer the fashion tragedies foisted upon you. Just say no to fat, oversized clothes and treat yourself to some shirts that fit! Your fans will thank you! Stand Tall.
The David Freese Home Run will go down in the history books as one of baseball’s greatest moments. The Cardinals third baseman is another tall guy making us proud this season. At 6’2″ and weighing in at 220 David is the perfect candidate for a Longshot Apparel shirt.
Last night’s game was phenomenal as this guy lit up the field, not once, but twice. David Freese Home Run and Triple will become synonymous with the 2011 World Series.
Here’s a little update of his 2011 Season thanks to Wikipedia.
Freese was projected to start the 2011 season and did so. He started off the year batting over .320, but was hit on the left hand by a pitch and missed 51 games (approximately two months) recovering from the fracture. After returning to the starting lineup, he finished the season with a .297 batting average, 10 home runs, and 55 RBI. He recorded hits in eight of the final nine regular-season games. Freese credited his improvement in power hitting to hitting coachMark McGwire, who helped him refine his hitting stroke.
In his first playoff series, he drove in 4 runs against Philadelphia in Game 4 to force a fifth game. In the National League Championship Series (NLCS) against Milwaukee, Freese had a .545 batting average, hit 3 home runs, drove in 9 runs, and scored 7 runs. He was named the NLCS Most Valuable Player. Through Game 3 of the World Series against Texas, Freese had a 13-game postseason hitting streak, a Cardinals record and just two short of matching the all-time National League record. The hitting streak was snapped in Game 4.[16]
In Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, with Texas leading, 3 games to 2, Freese came to bat in the bottom of the ninth, with two out and two men on base. With a count of one ball and two strikes, Freese hit a two-run triple to tie the game and send it to extra innings. In the eleventh inning, Freese then hit a game-winning lead-off, “walk-off”, solo home-run to deep center field, to send the World Series to its first Game 7 since 2002.
We’re looking forward to tonight to see if this tall guy gives us more of what he’s got. Stand Tall!
Tim Tebow had one of the greatest comebacks of all time in Sunday’s Bronco game against the Miami Dolphins. I went to take a shower at half time and came back with a completely flipped game. With lots of questionable decisions from this quarterback’s starting debut, I thought the game was a bust. I mean seriously, they were losing to the Dolphins…But Tebow made the long shot.
Tim Tebow, standing tall at 6’3″ put the Broncos back on track and his name back in the news. This tall man also has an interesting story to be told with his autobiography also in the headlines. He has had a flip flop kind of year so far fighting for his spot, but his attitude and forward thinking are keeping his height stable and ready for more. Tebow Time!
