This falls under the one man's trash is another man's treasure, idiom.
I stopped by my neighbor's house Friday, and she introduced me to her new female friend. I asked where she lived and she said, Hopewell. I asked if she had seen Tony Dorsett as a young child and she said, funny that you would ask because her grandfather was a former Pitt Athletic Director.
I asked the name of her grandfather and she said, Cas Myslinski. She was shocked that I was familiar with the name and then she offered the following, almost unbelievable story.
She said her grandfather had TD's Pitt football helmet stored in his attic for YEARS collecting dust. It wasn't set in a display container or anything protective for that matter, and still had scuff marks, star stickers and all scars atypical of a football helmet.
She then proceeded to say her and her dad (Myslinski’s son) decided to do something to give TD’s helmet more respect and honor than was given to it during the previous years . They decided to make the helmet into a "LAMP" by cutting a hole atop the crown and adding a base, lamp neck and lap shade.
Eventually, the nostalgia wore off after a while and now it back in her dad's attic collecting dust and spider webs over the past few decades. This is the helmet of one of the top 20 players in the history of college football.
I stopped by my neighbor's house Friday, and she introduced me to her new female friend. I asked where she lived and she said, Hopewell. I asked if she had seen Tony Dorsett as a young child and she said, funny that you would ask because her grandfather was a former Pitt Athletic Director.
I asked the name of her grandfather and she said, Cas Myslinski. She was shocked that I was familiar with the name and then she offered the following, almost unbelievable story.
She said her grandfather had TD's Pitt football helmet stored in his attic for YEARS collecting dust. It wasn't set in a display container or anything protective for that matter, and still had scuff marks, star stickers and all scars atypical of a football helmet.
She then proceeded to say her and her dad (Myslinski’s son) decided to do something to give TD’s helmet more respect and honor than was given to it during the previous years . They decided to make the helmet into a "LAMP" by cutting a hole atop the crown and adding a base, lamp neck and lap shade.
Eventually, the nostalgia wore off after a while and now it back in her dad's attic collecting dust and spider webs over the past few decades. This is the helmet of one of the top 20 players in the history of college football.
