I think they meant to add “in graphite” …

Hollow hex shaped rod shaft Thirty-one starting quarterbacks in the NFL, and only one possessed with signing a spokesman deal with a rod company?

It’s the classic rookie mistake, jump at the first thing offered when you should be practicing, “I’m going to Diddneyland.” Then again he plays for Cleveland, and it might be a cold day somewhere before he may grace the venue of the Big Game…

But think about the rush of adrenaline when he collides helmet to helmet with the opposing linebacker, and while the coaching staff has him propped up counting fingers, he says, “I … I going fishing.”

His handlers will be making throat-slit gestures to the sound man, officials will be hustling the camera crew off the field, champagne bottles will be frozen in midair – while the Disney contingent sets down their wine glasses and disappears in a hail of icy glances and throat clearing …

“The idea for hexagonal rods was actually dreamed up back in the 1980s by a guy named John McGinn,” explains Colt CEO Peter Lombardi”

– via Tackletrade World

Then the fellows from Colt Rods will seem like geniuses, for a couple minutes at least. They’ll suddenly remember that a couple hundred years of Bamboo came first, and claiming a rod based on the structure of Okra doesn’t warrant “HeXtreme” as that sounds like something sold with the Pinto, that caused all those gas tanks to leak …

5 thoughts on “I think they meant to add “in graphite” …”

  1. Rex

    Hexagonal graphite rods are about the same as Cleveland building a new stadium for the Browns with taxpayer money…

    Seemed like a good idea at the time. But after a while, you ask yourself “I paid how much??? For this???”

  2. Don

    At the San Mateo show in the 80s a nice fellow was selling hex-graphite rods. They were rather pricey. I’m not certain, but I think his name and the name of the rod company was Adams.

  3. John Peipon

    Hey Now, didn’t the Browns just beat the Pats? Seems like a good reason to squander the taxpayers money to me…

    Where Did I put my hemet and shouldermapads?

  4. Rex

    I’m from Cleveland…it’s just habit to make fun of the Browns/Indians/Cavs, what with all the decades of losing and such.

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