I love this thread...well at least for off season stuff. I have been fascinated with the names and avtars and the explanations. Especially Major Cougar...I love the picture. I never looked at it up close until this thread. I have never seen that picture before.

My name is my last name. BALL. The 4 is my favorite number. I loved wearing the BALL 4 jersey in baseball. Pitchers thought I was looking to walk so they didn't try as hard to strike me out (thinking I was looking to walk). I just belted singles and doubles all day long. I rarely walked in baseball. Rarely struck out either.

The Avtar is Kehl's 40 streaking by with an amazing intense Bronco looking on. I love the picture.

I was an Army Brat and at age 9 moved to my seventh permanent home... in Indiana. That's where I stayed until I went to the Y as a freshman in 1990. Hence, HoosierCougar. I am only slightly conflicted in my allegiances, but I know that Red should stay west of the Mississippi.

The avatar is something I saw on this board and co-opted. My son and I have made it into shrinky-dinks and they hang in his room and my car so we can always remember the Cougars. The other day he saw someone wearing a Yewts sweatshirt while we were on vacation in Kansas City and called out, "Cougars rule, Yewts drool!" He's seven.

Treck is the only word I could spell using the first initials of my wife and three kids. I grew up in Provo and am a cougar fan for life...even though I graduated from the U. Those were some fun years. The avatar is just a random image that I chose when I signed up for my cougarblue account. One of these days I will get around to changing it to something meaningful and clever.

Wow! So I wasn't going to play the me card on this thread. But I don't post as often as I used too. Anyways first I love going to the gym. Lifting and playing racketball. I've been doing that for a long time. Coug of course cougar. I'm a cougar for life. Then the Avatar it's of course homer. But he's a fully invested homer. A buddy at work helped me photo shop it on there. The saying says Harline is still open and so is Collie 4:18. Before I had a stupid dude with a skateboard. Because I didn't know how to get a cool avatar till my buddy helped me with it. Anyways go cougs! I can't wait for the season too start! And I renewed my season tickets for the year! Yay!

Niqmadu (son of AMmistamru, son of Niqmepa, was the king in Ugarit (on the old Bible Dictionary maps north of the Phoenician cities on the Mediterranean coast). This was my thesis area.

As far as my pic... cows are what we do. We mostly fatten holsteins for slaughter.

treck wrote:

Treck is the only word I could spell using the first initials of my wife and three kids.

Let's see now "Treck" has five letters. "wife and three kids" has four letters. Oh I get it. My analysis was "fundamentally" flawed. I forgot about wife #2...