Thursday, November 11, 2004

Drunk Phelps Kid

Michael Phelps, the Olympic poster boy of this past summer's games, got himself a DUI this past week. That got me to thinking, why aren't there any black swimmers, blacks tend to do so well at so many sports yet seem completely absent from others, where my people at?!?! So here's my top 5 reasons you don't see black swimmers:

Top 5 Reasons You Don't See Black Swimmers



  • 5. Water just sits on top of our hair, doesn't soak in, makes us look funny on the camera.

  • 4. Growing up, we played in the hose or the fire hydrant, we didn't have a stinkin' pool to learn to swim in. And if we did, it was entirely too crowded for anything more than standing around or it didn't extend past the middle of your calves.

  • 3. Chlorine makes us ashy!

  • 2. Swimming involves water. We have had a collectively bad experience with water.

  • 1. Can't find any speedos that fit!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tee hee!

How about this:

6. Can't fit dreads/hair extensions under swim cap.

I really like the speedos one!

Anonymous said...

The previous comment was sponsored in part by Rowan, courtesy of http://rowan.blogdrive.com, who is nodding off at work and lacked the brain capacity to sign her name.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled program.

Anti said...

6) too difficult to escape the profiling policemen in the water.

Anonymous said...

Now how about the list for ice hockey?

This was hysterical.

~Genuine

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