Rams select Puka Nacua (WR) with the 177th pick.

[AvengerRam]

Ahh - every time someone mentions the Kupp drop against Seattle, they mention that particular play.

My bad for assuming that was the play.

Maybe some day he’ll do something to make up for those missed opportunities.

 

[kurtfaulk]

Ahh - every time someone mentions the Kupp drop against Seattle, they mention that particular play.

My bad for assuming that was the play.

I think you're talking about the same play. The last play was the drop in the endzone.

My recollection was Goff got a little too excited and threw the ball harder then he had to. If he had just lobbed it to Kupp it would have been an easy td. Maybe he thought kupp wouldn't be so open. But he put some zip on it and Kupp had to make a more difficult catch. He should have caught it but still.

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[Tano]

I think you're talking about the same play. The last play was the drop in the endzone.

My recollection was Goff got a little too excited and threw the ball harder then he had to. If he had just lobbed it to Kupp it would have been an easy td. Maybe he thought kupp wouldn't be so open. But he put some zip on it and Kupp had to make a more difficult catch. He should have caught it but still.

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Corbin stated it was another play so I am confused as to which play it was that he is referring to.

 

[Selassie I]

Useless fact for you Selassie, I got married on the beach in Maui. No sign of any Puka jewellery though.

What year was that?

 

[HX76]

It was 2007. I stayed in the Sheraton Maui resort and spa in Lahaina. The reception was in the Kapalua Golf course. What amazed me was all the old women with saggy skin round the pool yet they all had falsies.

 

[Corbin]

Ahh - every time someone mentions the Kupp drop against Seattle, they mention that particular play.

My bad for assuming that was the play.

Shit no biggie bro, I’d assume that to! Lol At the end of that game we were finally synching and rolling and that one killed us.

Meh.. it’s water under the bridge now, he’s 4th and Kupp forever now! Lol

 

[Selassie I]

It was 2007. I stayed in the Sheraton Maui resort and spa in Lahaina. The reception was in the Kapalua Golf course. What amazed me was all the old women with saggy skin round the pool yet they all had falsies.

Puka shell necklaces were big in the 70's and early 80's. Apparently over harvesting the shells kinda put a stop to the making of the necklaces using the real Puka shells. The ones you can find easily today are not made with real shells... they are fake. So the craze for them kinda faded by the time you were there. The necklace my old neighbor over there found for me was made back in the 70's but it is like new because it's made from the real shells. She actually had to find and ship me 2 separate necklaces because the 1st one she sent me was too small for my neck... so my wife got that one.

Maui is very nice. Much nicer than the island I grew up on (Oahu... Pearl City). Your wedding must have been beautiful.

 

[Tano]

Puka shell necklaces were big in the 70's and early 80's. Apparently over harvesting the shells kinda put a stop to the making of the necklaces using the real Puka shells. The ones you can find easily today are not made with real shells... they are fake. So the craze for them kinda faded by the time you were there. The necklace my old neighbor over there found for me was made back in the 70's but it is like new because it's made from the real shells. She actually had to find and ship me 2 separate necklaces because the 1st one she sent me was too small for my neck... so my wife got that one.

Maui is very nice. Much nicer than the island I grew up on (Oahu... Pearl City). Your wedding must have been beautiful.

That is the only island that I have been to and that is a beautiful island - the next one to it is really nice to

I took a helicopter tour and it took me to that island

 

[Selassie I]

That is the only island that I have been to and that is a beautiful island - the next one to it is really nice to

I took a helicopter tour and it took me to that island

Well, technically they are all beautiful.

My summer camps were on Kauai. I believe, and most Locals do too, that Kauai is by far the most beautiful and unspoiled of all the main islands. Back then I took it for granted having summer camp in such an amazing location. I think about it now and it blows me away.

There are some islands that do not allow visitors... those are the real jewels, but you can't go to them.

 

[Tano]

Well, technically they are all beautiful.

My summer camps were on Kauai. I believe, and most Locals do too, that Kauai is by far the most beautiful and unspoiled of all the main islands. Back then I took it for granted having summer camp in such an amazing location. I think about it now and it blows me away.

There are some islands that do not allow visitors... those are the real jewels, but you can't go to them.

Just out of curiosity - do you know if they allow helicopter tours to those islands

 

[Selassie I]

Just out of curiosity - do you know if they allow helicopter tours to those islands

You can probably charter a chopper to fly over one... but you might have to start out from another island due to the distance/location of those islands. Some of the islands are hundreds of miles from each other.

 

[Selassie I]

Post a pic!

Alright... we had some friends over yesterday for a 4th of July pregame party. One of the drunk girls made a few of us stand still for a pic. I hate posing for pics so she had to be fast with the pic taking... and she was drunk like the rest of us... so that's the reason for the blurry pic.

But... my new Puka shell necklace is on so I'm posting this up against my better judgment. LOLOLOLOL

 

[Tano]

Alright... we had some friends over yesterday for a 4th of July pregame party. One of the drunk girls made a few of us stand still for a pic. I hate posing for pics so she had to be fast with the pic taking... and she was drunk like the rest of us... so that's the reason for the blurry pic.

But... my new Puka shell necklace is on so I'm posting this up against my better judgment. LOLOLOLOL

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I have got to use that picture somehow in my posts. Haven't quite figured out what it will mean yet.

 

[den-the-coach]

I have got to use that picture somehow in my posts. Haven't quite figured out what it will mean yet.

To all the girls I've loved before
Who traveled in and out my door
I'm glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I've loved before

 

[FaulkSF]

It was 2007. I stayed in the Sheraton Maui resort and spa in Lahaina. The reception was in the Kapalua Golf course. What amazed me was all the old women with saggy skin round the pool yet they all had falsies.

They should brush better. Nothing funny about veneers.

 

[Classic Rams]

Alright... we had some friends over yesterday for a 4th of July pregame party. One of the drunk girls made a few of us stand still for a pic. I hate posing for pics so she had to be fast with the pic taking... and she was drunk like the rest of us... so that's the reason for the blurry pic.

But... my new Puka shell necklace is on so I'm posting this up against my better judgment. LOLOLOLOL

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I probably heard of you or know you somehow since I grew up in PC and went to school there. I don't remember knowing too many Ram fans other than my 2 younger neighbors. A lot of the kids were Cowboys, Raiders, Vikings and I knew only 1 niner fan. I grew up with a pool table in our house too.

Last time I visited Oahu and saw the rail going through Kam Hwy PC area I was pretty disappointed. But near Diamond Head where my dad lives is mostly the same. Just different stores from before. I used to deliver Menehune water all over the island in the late 80s so I got familiar with pretty much everywhere. Never had my own puka shell necklace before, but in those old yearbooks many girls and guys had one.

 

[Selassie I]

I probably heard of you or know you somehow since I grew up in PC and went to school there. I don't remember knowing too many Ram fans other than my 2 younger neighbors. A lot of the kids were Cowboys, Raiders, Vikings and I knew only 1 niner fan. I grew up with a pool table in our house too.

Last time I visited Oahu and saw the rail going through Kam Hwy PC area I was pretty disappointed. But near Diamond Head where my dad lives is mostly the same. Just different stores from before. I used to deliver Menehune water all over the island in the late 80s so I got familiar with pretty much everywhere. Never had my own puka shell necklace before, but in those old yearbooks many girls and guys had one.

I lived on Paaaina St in PC for basically 10 yrs growing up. Funny you mention Menehune water... cause I went to Manana for elementary through middle school... that makes me a Menehune (Manana Menehunes). Hell... I have a couple of Manana shirts that say Manana Menehunes that I got from my recent trip back. I went back to the school when we went to visit our old neighbors and our old house. I even have a new badass Pearl City HS polo that my old neighbor sent me recently (her son played baseball there and is now the baseball coach there).

It was tough on me Brudda as there were only 2 Haoles in the whole school when I was there. This was the 70's basically (I'm 56). They HATED Haoles and I get it. I caught a break when we had to do a class presentation in front of the class about our heritage. My Grandmother was 100% First Nation (Mohawk). When everyone from the islands (not the Japanese) found this out they totally felt common ground with me. You know... Capt Cook and the whites took their homeland and the whites took North America. It was an unexpected but huge break for me as I became accepted then by schoolmates and kids my age. That didn't include all my Japanese teachers or parents of locals though and obviously people my age who didn't know.

Everybody called me Podge instead of George. I was either surfing or skateboarding during my spare time. I did play Pop Warner football, and basketball & baseball... but we moved back the The Mainland when I was HS age. I spoke Pidgin English and some Hawaiian unless I was home because my parents didn't allow it in the house. My Grandparents loved to hear me use it though whenever they visited. Our super proud Hawaiian neighbors still talk about how they've never heard any Haole speak it so perfectly (Ha... like there is such a thing).

We recently went back and I took my wife and boys and their girls. We stayed on the North Shore but I did take them to and through my old stomping grounds. My old neighbors had a daughter who always wanted to be my girlfriend... she would even send letters to my mom when we moved back home (The Mainland) asking about me. She ended up becoming Ms Teen Hawaii and a Hawaiian Tropic girl. She sent my mom pictures when those things happened so I would see. She never gave up trying.

When we visited recently we did not tell our old neighbors we were coming... we just went up and knocked on their door. They've never moved. Well Tish (that girl) answered the door and somehow immediately recognized me and almost screamed my name. My wife wasn't all that excited about her for some reason LOLOLOLOL... but she didn't say anything about it until we were all back in the car driving back to the North Shore. It was hilarious... my wife had been told about Tish many years before we got there.

The part of the our recent visit that was probably the coolest for me was when Tish and her Mother (who is not happy about 2 of her children marrying Haoles) told my wife and my boys that I am a Local.

So I have a hate/love relationship with my Localness. I don't forget all the brutal racism I experienced or the good times. I have a Hawaiian social security number even though I was born in Orlando... it's stuck on me. I wouldn't want my boys to have to live through what I did... but I am somehow thankful for the experience now. My vintage Puka is just another thing for me now (cause I still have and sport other Island stuff) to show that I won't forget where I came from.

 

[Allen2McVay]

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That really does look like a fun group. Little deranged. Possibly unstable. But a whole lot of fun.

 

[Selassie I]

@Classic Rams

I took this shot of the front of my school when I was there. They still take off their shoes before entering the classrooms... but not everyone does it now unlike when I went there.

 

[Classic Rams]

@Classic Rams

I took this shot of the front of my school when I was there. They still take off their shoes before entering the classrooms... but not everyone does it now unlike when I went there.


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Enjoyed reading your Hawaii story.

My only connection with Manana is hanging out in the school bathroom, (or was it the park bathroom...maybe?), one evening in 1981 and sitting on the floor smoking a doob listening to music with a few girls. Sounds funny now - going to a bathroom to party. But it was their occasional hangout and I just went along one night. I dated a few girls from that area in the 80s. I took a few of them to Kam Drive-In for a movie. That drive in also became a swap meet on the weekend and it was a great place for football cards and Ram stuff! I remember getting those toy plastic Ram helmets that you could wear, a gold horn and a white horn, for dirt cheap. Football cards and magazines were also cheap back in the mid to late 70s.

Kids in lower Pearl City went to Manana elementary or Highlands elementary. Don't know about how they qualified, I never went to either. For me it was Our Lady of Good Council (nuns, ugh) and Palisades Elementary. Then to Highlands Intermediate for 7th and 8th, followed by Pearl City High School. Some friends from Highlands disappeared when I hit the HS. Some went to Aiea since they may have lived closer to that school... including Newtown. If you went to Highlands Intermediate at any time we may know a few of the same kids or teachers.

As far as being caucasian I got picked on here and there but nothing major. I'm sure some kids knowing that I was an artist would spare me the stress. I got hassled a bit on the last day of school (unaffectionately called "Kill" Haole day) before I decided not to show up that day just to avoid confrontations. So no real scars or ptsd just some uncomfortable memories. Intermediate school was scarier than HS for me. I just avoided bullies and kept a low profile for the most part. I don't know about hated, there were some kids that did, others maybe just disliked the white kids that they didn't know as friends. But not all of them hated, and everyone got teased no matter what race. Yeah I spoke pigeon too, we all did, and a few locals took notice and complimented me, and many referred to me later as "local Haole" so there was more acceptance as I got older.

Since we were from the same area, I remember going to that corner McDonalds a lot. Before the drive-thru was even built. We just stood in one of the 4-5 lines and ordered at the window. EK Fernandez carnivals were at Pacheco Park across the street from McD's. Mom used to shop at Holiday Mart and Foodland, and I did later too. I got my hair cut in that shopping center up until the late 80s. We got gas from the stations in the area. I took my driver's test at that Pearl City police station. Dad worked at that Primo brewery before it closed. I ended up working at Pizza Hut in Pearl City, one of my favorite hangouts before and after I quit. I also worked at that Holiday Mart for some years in the 80s.

I moved away from Hawaii in 2000. In the Rams SB 1999 season I would go to a downtown bar called Players and watch many Ram games there with my small group of friends. One of those guys was Ron Jacobs, a former DJ for KKUA radio station. He was a bit controversial but a die hard Ram fan. He was impressed with my Ram knowledge and I was impressed with his old Ram stories, including driving Deacon to practice once in the 60s. He helped me get an actual game worn Rams jersey after the SB since he knew the Rams' VP of PR Rick Smith. The big stars weren't available so I chose a home Wistrom one, with autograph... $50. They were selling them off kind of inner circle because of the change to navy and gold the next year.

My dad still lives in Hawaii so we go back every other year to visit. Our tradition is waking up early and hitting Leonard's Malasadas. I may visit some old school friends too. Much of it has changed, I wish I took more photos of the old hangouts. My mom thankfully took a lot of pics when we were growing up. Some old sky slide pics, beaches, our yard, cars and birthday-holiday stuff.