Been there, done that and have the T-shirt

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Last night I had to find my older Steeler jersey for Bonnie to wear to a Super Bowl party today. I have my Jerome Bettis Super Bowl XL jersey that I am wearing, but I have an old number 89 Steeler jersey that I used to wear when I played football.  To find this old jersey I had to go through the built-in in my closed where I have all of the different shirts I have accumulated over the years. 

Going through those shirts, a flood of memories came back.  How true is the adage of been there, done that and have the T-shirt to prove it. Shirts from places I have been, events I have witnessed.  Shirts from partnerships and deals I have done, companies I have helped build, companies that are no longer here.  Shirts from teams I have coached and on and on and on.

So here is my top 10 list of my favorite old shirts:

1.I am Landon’s Daddy – I made this shirt when my son Landon was born 9 years ago

2a. I survived the road to Hana – My honeymoon with Bonnie from Feb 1990

2b. Dive Black Rock – Kaanapalli – same

2c Longhi’s Lahina WTF shirt – same and a great meal!

3. StillSecure “I like you, I just don’t trust you”

4. Sage Networks founding team (predecessor to Interliant)

5. Interliant – we are init together from our IPO

6. Network Solutions-Interliant partnership (they invested 10 million, ah those where the days!)

7. Cobalt Networks IPO – (Oh, those were the days for sure and thank God for friends and family stock!)

8. Old Navy Turn of the Century shirt (and every year since)

9. Steelers flag football coach – out of the dozen or so coaches shirts I have.

10. US Tennis Open shirts from 1993 to 2003 (including 2001, which I discovered looking at the shirt last night was just 2 weeks before 9/11)

Anyway, so much for my trip down memory lane.  Bonnie has a jersey to wear to match me and the boys.  We have terrible towels and are ready to cheer the Steelers on. Go Steelers!