Worst Piece of Celtics' Merchandise

Rocky5000 · Post #1 » by **Rocky5000** » Fri May 9, 2008 5:49 pm

If you're anything like me, people will eventually end up buying you Celtics' stuff for gifts. Sometimes these people who buy you gifts know very little about the Celtics or gift-giving and end up buying you something that you would never buy for yourself or anyone else. Maybe you end up getting a Mark Blount Jersey, or a signed Jiri Welsh poster. (Luckily neither of those incidents has happened to me...)

For me the worst item I have been given as a gift, is a Wally Szczerbiak action figure, that I was given THIS YEAR long after he was traded.

For one thing, I am way too old to start collecting action figures(I have none besides this Wally one...), and for another Szczerbiak was one of my least favorite players to ever wear green. I would have been okay with getting the gift if it was Delonte, Gerald, Big Al, or Gomes, hell I'd probably even like a Telfair figure better than Wally. Of course, I said nothing negative about the gift upon receiving it and said thanks, but in my head I was thinking, "WTH am I going to do with this?!"(Should I unwrap it now and use it as a voodoo doll?)

Maybe you've been lucky enough to avoid being given a bad gift, and have instead made a purchase that you later regretted. Do you have anything Celtics related that's worse than my unwrapped Szczerbiak action figure?

CelticsWhat! · Post #2 » by **CelticsWhat!** » Fri May 9, 2008 5:52 pm

You got #34 on the brain? :wink:

d_wagz · Post #3 » by **d_wagz** » Fri May 9, 2008 6:36 pm

this is a funny topic, it's so true.

last year season ticket holders (at least my father did) got to pick free a authentic jersey and he chose TA over Big Al. In my head I was like what the ****? Funny thing is right now it's almost a wash. I would've liked to see some more run for TA while ray was working on his 0,0,0 line and struggling to keep up with wally(!?). thank goodness doc ended up being right to stick with him (just like my dad?).

I also have a signed Roger Clemens ball, a signed Doug Menkevich picture (catching the last out '04) and every Drew Bledsoe rookie card. My uncomfortable memorabilia game is top notch.

MyInsatiableOne · Post #4 » by **MyInsatiableOne** » Fri May 9, 2008 8:25 pm

CelticsWhat! wrote:You got #34 on the brain?

Ooooh, a Freudian slip.......someone's got some man-love for PP...

JiriMania · Post #5 » by **JiriMania** » Fri May 9, 2008 8:28 pm

Rocky5000 wrote:If you're anything like me, people will eventually end up buying you Celtics' stuff for gifts. Sometimes these people who buy you gifts know very little about the Celtics or gift-giving and end up buying you something that you would never buy for yourself or anyone else. Maybe you end up getting a Mark Blount Jersey, or a signed Jiri Welsh poster. (Luckily neither of those incidents has happened to me...)

It's Welsch... and it was a signed Jersey :oops:

I am still embarassed by it :banghead:

MyInsatiableOne · Post #6 » by **MyInsatiableOne** » Fri May 9, 2008 8:29 pm

^^hence your screen-name... :rofl:

Post #7 » by **Basketball Jesus** » Fri May 9, 2008 8:30 pm

Rocky5000 wrote: Do you have anything Celtics related that's worse than my unwrapped Szczerbiak action figure?

My parents got me Celtic Pride for Christmas one year.

JiriMania · Post #8 » by **JiriMania** » Fri May 9, 2008 8:31 pm

MyInsatiableOne wrote:^^hence your screen-name...

What can I say, I got caught up in Jiri mania

MyInsatiableOne · Post #9 » by **MyInsatiableOne** » Fri May 9, 2008 8:41 pm

Basketball Jesus wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

My parents got me Celtic Pride for Christmas one year.

That is such a bad **** movie on all levels.

MyInsatiableOne · Post #10 » by **MyInsatiableOne** » Fri May 9, 2008 8:42 pm

JiriMania wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

What can I say, I got caught up in Jiri mania

I guess so! :rofl:

Post #11 » by **Bleeding Green** » Fri May 9, 2008 10:05 pm

LOL, I have the Wally Z action figure too. Thing is awesome. I like that you can take the legs off--it's sort of indicative of his career.

Hemingway · Post #12 » by **Hemingway** » Fri May 9, 2008 10:09 pm

I would just like to take this opportunity to stick up for Jiri. Not because I think he is a great player but because he looks remarkably similar to me.

Post #13 » by **SuperDeluxe** » Fri May 9, 2008 11:36 pm

Bleeding Green wrote:LOL, I have the Wally Z action figure too. Thing is awesome. I like that you can take the legs off--it's sort of indicative of his career.

(picture)

Well, a Wally with no knees or ankles is an injury-free Wally.

Rocky5000 · Post #14 » by **Rocky5000** » Sat May 10, 2008 1:23 am

Bleeding Green wrote:LOL, I have the Wally Z action figure too. Thing is awesome. I like that you can take the legs off--it's sort of indicative of his career.

(picture)

haha. Did you buy that or was it a gift?

Oh and the Pierce/Piece thing took me forever to figure out.....lol

So anyone got any Blount memorabilia?

Post #15 » by **wetsthebed** » Sat May 10, 2008 1:24 am

Bleeding Green wrote:LOL, I have the Wally Z action figure too. Thing is awesome. I like that you can take the legs off--it's sort of indicative of his career.

(picture)

They have an entire shelf of just those Wally figures at Walmart. I took a picture once, but I don't know where it is.

CatNation · Post #16 » by **CatNation** » Sat May 10, 2008 3:10 am

dude. celtic pride is an amazing movie. me and my friend still quote from it now. we went to game vs the jazz so the first thing we did was yell to the jazz players "JAZZ MUSIC SUCKS, AND SO DO YOU!" i love that movie

DelMonte West · Post #17 » by **DelMonte West** » Sat May 10, 2008 3:58 am

Funny topic.

I saw a Brian Scalabrine T-shirt a few weeks ago at the official store in the Garden (nothing special, just the jersey look-alikes with the numbers on the back and front). I also remember a mannequin with a Celtics Vin Baker jersey (months after everyone knew he was a dud) at a sports store at the Rockingham Mall.

Post #18 » by **Bleeding Green** » Sat May 10, 2008 4:02 am

Rocky5000 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

haha. Did you buy that or was it a gift?

Oh and the Pierce/Piece thing took me forever to figure out.....lol

So anyone got any Blount memorabilia?

A gift. You really don't like it? I think the idea of a Wally Szczerbiak action figure is hilarious. I think I got it right before or after he was traded.

Bad-Thoma · Post #19 » by **Bad-Thoma** » Sat May 10, 2008 11:57 pm

Celtic's slipper socks, grey socks with the celts logo and the nba logo on the bottom in rubber for traction. I got them about 20 years ago, and frighteningly I still have them.