Article Contributed on: 10/7/2007 4:22:43 PM
In early September, 2007, I was driving my kids back from soccer and saw a nearby neighborhood was having a garage sale. I'm always looking for
"stuff" ... plus the boys have become big fans of the Colorado Rockies baseball team, so I figured we might find something for them. We picked up a (used) baseball for 25 cents ... and a Rockies
"Dinger" hat for a buck ... but the pickings were slim. As we approached the last house, we saw these monster inflatable Colorado Rockies Balls, so I figured we had hit the mother-lode. But the only Rockies related stuff they had was the inflatables themselves ...
and they were for sale! Turns out that four of these were actually commissioned/used by the Colorado Rockies for Opening Day in the year 2000. They were made by the Boulder Blimp company and have extremely durable construction with 2.3 Amp Blower Fans ... plus velcro across the top so they can be "filled" with Helium Balloons and then "ripped" open to release 'em.
One has a slight tear that safety pins will handle ... so it was $10. The other was $35 ... so $45 for the
biggest balls around - not too shabby of a deal, 'eh?Now I just gotta figure out what to do with 'em - do I put 'em out with my
halloween decorations or
christmas lights ... or save 'em for game days to provide good luck to the Rockies as they march to the World Series?