JSF Cyber Garage Sale: Buster Douglas Edition
The internet is fun.
Not only does it provide all the obvious benefits - ample material to avoid doing work, free on-demand porn, etc - it also occasionally provides an outlet for long forgotten athletes who are looking to get back into the spotlight for one reason or another.
Take old friend Buster Douglas for example.
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Out of the limelight for upwards of 20 years save for a few articles on how obese he had become, this former (brief) heavyweight champion was recently given a forum on Yardbarker.com where he joined their illustrious collection of athlete bloggers. If nothing else, it has given Buster a forum to interact with fans via ten second videos like this one where he can simultaneously thank his fans for their Twitter support and manage to sneak in a compliment to Manny Pacquaio on a fight that happened two months ago.
For some of us, just seeing the name Buster Douglas on our computer immediately brought us back two decades to when he was last relevant in the sports world, and within a few clicks somehow managed to embark on a trip through this giant Cyber Garage Sale called the “internet” where we inadvertantly stumbled onto a bizarre collection of Buster related items that would enhance any memorabilia collection###MORE###
In what might have been the single most rushed video game title in history, Sega managed to pump out “James ‘Buster’ Douglas Knockout Boxing” sometime during the brief eight month stint between its namesake’s shocking defeat of Mike Tyson and his not-so-shocking destruction at the hands of Evander Holyfield.
If you weren’t lucky enough to get your hands on it in 1990, your fortunes have changed as this puppy is available in all it’s outdated glory on everyone’s Boxing-Sega-Genesis-Game_W0QQitemZ280361816774QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVideo_Games_Games?hash=item4146ddd2c6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1240%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50">favorite online auction. Now you too can beat down Buster with a beefed up Vietnamese character named “Kim”.
But really, who wants to live in the past? It’s not 1990, it’s 2009, a time when a celebrity doesn’t need an opportunistic video game company in order to mass produce his next big personally endorsed product. Instead, all he needs is a cheap camera, some cue cards that are set noticeably off to the side and someone who has a remedial understanding of video graphics. Watch out Foreman, someone is coming for you…
And what do we think of when we see an ad for a book about grilling recipes designed to combat diabetes? One word - merchandising. Thanks to the fine folks at CafePress, you can get your hands on a wide variety of items freshly emblazoned with the Busters Backyard Bar-B-Q Knockout Diabetes Diet Cookbook logo. And while you’re at it, make sure to pick one up for the little lady too…
One can’t quite predict how they would react when encountering a Buster Douglas cookbook thong on a female companion until one experiences it. $10 well spent, brother.
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