Spring Break
Coaches should get Palmer treatment
Chris Brodeur
Issue date: 11/5/09 Section: Sports
I've never seen Arnold Palmer play golf. I know he's an all-time great, that he won multiple major championships. I know there was a nickname for the fervent hoards of golf fans that would follow him around and cheer his every move during a round. They were known as "Arnie's Army."
If I had to, I could even point him out in a crowd of other famous geezers, but again, it's not because I've routinely watched him swing that golfing stick of his over the years or anything like that.
The truth is, I am part of an "Arnie's Army," but it's one of very different stripes. Our regiment doesn't watch much golf. Today's Arnie's soldiers are the future doctors, lawyers, businesspeople and in my case, writers walking this and presumably other college campuses nationwide.
We're too young to have taken part in "Arnie's Army I," but what we do know is this: Arizona Arnold Palmer Half Iced Tea/Half Lemonade rocks and its greatness lifts us up wherever we go. At 99 cents per 23 oz. can, it's a delicious and economical energy boost perfect for long nights at the office or whatever it is you non-journalism majors do to prepare for being poor when you get out of this place.
Just this Monday, I grabbed an Arnie from one of the many UConn locations it's available at - the former Store24 on this occasion - and took a prolonged look at the tall, black can before cracking it open. Palmer's accomplishments are scrawled all over it, along with pictures from his glory days and a little story about how his signature drink came to be.
My brief Palmer lesson got me thinking about some of the icons on this campus that deserve their own drink and what their self-titled drinks might look like if they actually landed in stores. And then I thought, "Hey, you have a bi-weekly column for making that kind of stupidity public."
With basketball season just getting underway this week, I could think of no better place to start on a line of Husky-themed, icon-endorsed beverages than in the basketball offices of Gampel Pavilion. Here's what I dreamed up:
If I had to, I could even point him out in a crowd of other famous geezers, but again, it's not because I've routinely watched him swing that golfing stick of his over the years or anything like that.
The truth is, I am part of an "Arnie's Army," but it's one of very different stripes. Our regiment doesn't watch much golf. Today's Arnie's soldiers are the future doctors, lawyers, businesspeople and in my case, writers walking this and presumably other college campuses nationwide.
We're too young to have taken part in "Arnie's Army I," but what we do know is this: Arizona Arnold Palmer Half Iced Tea/Half Lemonade rocks and its greatness lifts us up wherever we go. At 99 cents per 23 oz. can, it's a delicious and economical energy boost perfect for long nights at the office or whatever it is you non-journalism majors do to prepare for being poor when you get out of this place.
Just this Monday, I grabbed an Arnie from one of the many UConn locations it's available at - the former Store24 on this occasion - and took a prolonged look at the tall, black can before cracking it open. Palmer's accomplishments are scrawled all over it, along with pictures from his glory days and a little story about how his signature drink came to be.
My brief Palmer lesson got me thinking about some of the icons on this campus that deserve their own drink and what their self-titled drinks might look like if they actually landed in stores. And then I thought, "Hey, you have a bi-weekly column for making that kind of stupidity public."
With basketball season just getting underway this week, I could think of no better place to start on a line of Husky-themed, icon-endorsed beverages than in the basketball offices of Gampel Pavilion. Here's what I dreamed up:
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