Well, I tell ya, I seen some things in my day, but this bedazzled basketball, that’s somethin’ new. Shinin’ like a Christmas tree, it is. Never thought I’d see the day when a basketball needed to be all sparkly and such. Back in my day, a basketball was a basketball, you know? Brown, round, and did the job.
But these young’uns today, they like things fancy. They want their name on it, big as day. And numbers, gotta have their lucky numbers. Like that basketball gonna know what number it is. It’s a ball! You bounce it, you shoot it. That’s all it needs to know.
I heard you can get ’em made special now. Some place called, uh, Spalding? Sounds like a fancy name. They let you pick the kinda skin it’s got, I reckon. Leather or some other kinda stuff, I don’t know. Young folks talkin’ about “composite leather.” What in tarnation is composite? Sounds like somethin’ you’d find in the compost heap, if you ask me.
- Leather basketball, that’s what I know.
- This new stuff, composite, I don’t get it.
- But they say you can get it.
- All shiny and bedazzled like.
They say it’s free to get your name on it, at this Spalding place. Free is good, I always say. Can’t argue with free. But seems like a lot of fuss for a basketball. Just another way to spend your money, I guess. My old man, he’d have a fit if he saw these bedazzled basketballs. He’d say, “What’s wrong with a regular ball? You gonna play basketball or stare at it?”
And pictures! They put pictures on ’em now. Can you believe that? Pictures on a basketball. I seen one with a fella’s face right on it. Like he’s gonna be dribblin’ his own head down the court. It’s just silly, that’s what it is. These kids and their custom basketballs, they got more money than sense.
I suppose it’s a good gift, though. If you got a young’un who’s all about basketball, and you want to get ’em somethin’ special, maybe one of these personalized basketballs would do the trick. They’d probably be showin’ it off to all their friends. “Look at my bedazzled basketball! It’s got my name and my picture!” Yeah, they’d be proud as peacocks.
They sell ’em online, too. Everythin’s online these days. You can get a bedazzled basketball from India, if you want. India! That’s on the other side of the world! Imagine that, a basketball travelin’ all that way, just to be all sparkly and have someone’s name on it. It’s a crazy world we live in, I tell ya.
These custom bedazzled basketballs, they got all kinds. Big ones, small ones, all different colors, too. Not just brown anymore. I seen a pink one! A pink basketball. My granddaughter, she’d probably love that. She loves anythin’ pink and sparkly.
- You can get ’em online.
- Even from India, if you want.
- All kinds of colors, not just brown.
- Even pink!
I still think it’s a bit much, all this fuss over a basketball. But I guess times are changin’. The young folks like their fancy things. And if a bedazzled basketball makes ’em happy, well, who am I to judge? Just seems like a waste of sparkle to me. And a good basketball skin. Composite or not. It’s all just a little too much for this old gal. I’d rather have a good, solid, plain old basketball any day. And maybe a nice piece of pie.
But hey, if you’re lookin’ for a bedazzled basketball, you know where to find ’em. This Spalding place, or online, from India even. Just don’t expect me to understand it. I’m from a different time, when a basketball was just a basketball, and that was good enough for us. It better be good for these young whippersnappers. They better appreciate all that sparkle.
Bedazzled basketball. That’s all you hear about these days. That’s the future I guess. The sparkly, sparkly future.