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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social

My brother just sent me this picture of me at 3 Not all my gifts were immediately apparent

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aug 24, 2025, 12:11 am • 896 32

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ScreamInsideYour❤️ @pir8z40.bsky.social

helmet on backwards?

aug 24, 2025, 12:17 am • 2 0 • view
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David W. Rudlin @ruddrudd.bsky.social

I see a boy lettering in two sports at once. Impressive!

aug 24, 2025, 12:48 am • 1 0 • view
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Geoffrey Hoytsman @courtjezter84.bsky.social

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aug 24, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view
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Gibbie 🇨🇦🦫 @gibbie.bsky.social

Versatility 😁

aug 24, 2025, 12:27 am • 1 0 • view
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Carly Shellenberger @blackcatsforlife91.bsky.social

Cute!

aug 24, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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wjmckeown.bsky.social @wjmckeown.bsky.social

Multi-sport athlete is all I see

aug 24, 2025, 1:13 am • 1 0 • view
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Liz🌼🌷or Mrs Ant 🐜 @aliz1.bsky.social

😂😂 love it

aug 24, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Cheesecake @chizkayk.bsky.social

Even at that young age, you'd realised you had to protect those good looks.

aug 24, 2025, 2:12 am • 1 0 • view
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🇺🇲Paddy O'Murchú 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦 @paddy-omurchu.bsky.social

Actually, this photo tracks 🤣

aug 24, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
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mike @manatr0n.bsky.social

Still a better quarterback than deshaun watson

aug 24, 2025, 12:22 am • 2 0 • view
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Hold My Beer 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @holdontoyourbutts.bsky.social

Lol, that's great.

aug 24, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social

It goes a long way toward explaining why you didn't make a name for yourself as a football player or basketball player, though.

aug 24, 2025, 12:33 am • 2 0 • view
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Rob Ripley @rbripley.bsky.social

That sure is you! ;-) Me, on the other hand...

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aug 24, 2025, 12:16 am • 4 0 • view
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Just_LookingK @justlookingk.bsky.social

What a sweet photo 😍📸

aug 24, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
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Muzz, Emil Muzz? @wmarmstrong.bsky.social

Basketball Helmet? Check. Eyehole on side? Check. Go!

aug 24, 2025, 12:18 am • 1 0 • view
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OGDanielG @ogdg.bsky.social

I had that same helmet

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aug 24, 2025, 12:20 am • 11 0 • view
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OGDanielG @ogdg.bsky.social

I'm pretty sure I had that same toy helmet.

aug 24, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
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OGDanielG @ogdg.bsky.social

Yep

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aug 24, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
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𝓙𝓮𝓪𝓷 𖹭.ᐟ @breakingkind.bsky.social

🤣 Well, at least you weren't on ice skates with a hockey stick, too.

aug 24, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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TahitiLuv @tahitiluv.bsky.social

😆

aug 24, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social

😂

aug 24, 2025, 12:57 am • 1 0 • view
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Partially.Convinced @partiallyconvinced.bsky.social

Multisport athlete, impressive.

aug 24, 2025, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Comedy Montréal 🍁☮🐶 @chillhuahua.bsky.social

Now that you have the cover, you need to write the autobiography.

aug 24, 2025, 12:49 am • 4 0 • view
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Pennybags @nouveaubougee.bsky.social

I bet you were hoping for second baseman

aug 24, 2025, 12:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com

This is just early comedic genius

aug 24, 2025, 12:13 am • 31 0 • view
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social

absolutely incredible

aug 24, 2025, 12:11 am • 2 0 • view
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TexaKiwi 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸🇳🇿🐈🫘 @texaskiwi70.bsky.social

🤣😝😜

aug 24, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Steve Delfino @stevedelfino.bsky.social

The deflated basketball is priceless

aug 24, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
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Polly Kane 🇺🇳💃🏻🇺🇳 @kanekavi.sheshed.rocks

🤭😂😍

aug 25, 2025, 1:39 am • 2 0 • view
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Fighting the fight , it's worth it @wee1rn.bsky.social

Footsket ball , duh

aug 25, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
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Kent right now @bookshrike.bsky.social

This picture is amazing, and I would go see this movie if it was the poster, or buy the album if it was on the cover.

aug 24, 2025, 12:23 am • 6 0 • view
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Karmel Dahl @karmel-dahl.bsky.social

Hilarious

aug 24, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Steve Danger Moore @stevenmoore722.bsky.social

You still look better than the guy the Commanders are betting their future success on. And after growing up in Cleveland, I can say that you look better than any living or dead Browns QB ever.

aug 24, 2025, 12:45 am • 1 0 • view
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bstinso61.bsky.social @bstinso61.bsky.social

The old "backwards helmet basketball football" play.

aug 24, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
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Julia Duffy @duffyj.bsky.social

Yup that's you

aug 24, 2025, 12:15 am • 8 0 • view
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Erik Leibbrand @erksynerksy.bsky.social

Said: ear hole Heard: eye hole

aug 24, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social

Looks like a Philip Johnson house back there.

aug 24, 2025, 12:12 am • 4 0 • view
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michaelzuck.bsky.social @michaelzuck.bsky.social

Au contraire - looks like some "Yes and" improv hard at work .

aug 24, 2025, 12:18 am • 4 0 • view
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😈 Laney The Monster 🧛‍♀️ @apopularmonster.bsky.social

Aw, gods bless you, you were trying! 🫶

aug 24, 2025, 12:17 am • 4 0 • view
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Persistent Nasty Women @blueresisterinca.bsky.social

🤣🤣 Love it.

aug 24, 2025, 12:27 am • 1 0 • view
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Main Tenant @main-tenant.bsky.social

“…just this helmet and this basketball… and this lamp… and I don’t need anything else…”

aug 24, 2025, 8:36 am • 0 0 • view
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Jason Gottlieb @ohaiom.bsky.social

“Two sports at the same time.”

aug 24, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Atticus Thraxx (Was/Is) @atticusthraxx.bsky.social

I’m always surprised when Brown’s fans can dress themselves at all.

aug 24, 2025, 2:18 am • 2 0 • view
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Lisa B (she, her) @lisa3261.bsky.social

Omg so cute

aug 24, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
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clynnn.bsky.social @clynnn.bsky.social

hahahaha awww! Like you wanted to everything at once!

aug 24, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
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The Same James @thesamejames.bsky.social

"Hiding your light* under a bushel*". *hair *larger version of little plastic football helmet sold in gumball machines

aug 24, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
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Scott Kraft @scottkraft.bsky.social

Oh, I dunno... Certainly points for versatility!

aug 24, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Beezie1080 @beezie1080.bsky.social

Multi tasking right there!

aug 24, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
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bananapie1111.bsky.social @bananapie1111.bsky.social

That is amazing

aug 24, 2025, 1:45 am • 1 0 • view
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Old Grazing Horse @grazinghorse.bsky.social

The shoes must have been standard issue. I had a pair like that, with some little barrel contraption to keep the laces tied.

aug 24, 2025, 12:57 am • 1 0 • view
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kathyi-c.bsky.social @kathyi-c.bsky.social

😀

aug 24, 2025, 6:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social

😅😅😅💙

aug 25, 2025, 1:35 am • 2 0 • view
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CB @christopherburns.bsky.social

“Two sports at the same time”.

aug 24, 2025, 12:18 am • 1 0 • view
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SF Native @finleycordain.bsky.social

I’m grateful that my parents weren’t big on photographs.

aug 24, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
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IntheWaitingRoom @chordtone.bsky.social

Lol

aug 24, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
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Marvelous Max @moketchup.bsky.social

Your concern for safety was apparent.

aug 24, 2025, 12:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Jim Kilgus @pokerrph.bsky.social

Did you mean to pluralize gift?

aug 24, 2025, 12:20 am • 7 0 • view
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dshupe3.bsky.social @dshupe3.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣

aug 24, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
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Dawn Humphrey @dhumph.bsky.social

That photo, in and of itself, is a gift.

aug 24, 2025, 2:32 am • 4 0 • view
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Safetypup Steph @safetypup.bsky.social

The flat basketball is really the topper.

aug 25, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social

I remember boys in shorts & tights!!

aug 24, 2025, 12:14 am • 2 0 • view
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Tommy Edwin @tommyedwin.bsky.social

True of both my brother and me (Redlands, 1958) also. I ended up a scientist/musician, he a lothario/scratch golfer. I’ll bet you had fabulous hair even back then. 🤓

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aug 24, 2025, 5:04 am • 3 0 • view
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Eryn @eryn.bsky.social

Ah, your prop comedy era

aug 24, 2025, 12:15 am • 11 0 • view
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Willie @methbreath.bsky.social

Good job by you turning in to a decent guy success. Because that kid got picked on dawn til dusk.

aug 24, 2025, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Cousin Joel @whoozawutzit.bsky.social

Great Form! This was about the extent of my athletic ability…

aug 24, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view