What’s the best gift you ever got for Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus, etc.? That’s a tough one for me. I remember one Christmas I spent the night at my grandad’s house on Christmas Eve and in the morning I received the Atari game Real Sports Football and was tortured b/c my Atari was at home and my grandad didn’t have one. But my sister got a chalkboard, so I commandeered that and spent the morning drawing up plays for my game. Which, considering the sophistication of computer football games back then, made about as much sense as drawing up plays for Pick Up Sticks. I also remember the year I got a Steve Bartkowski jersey. Seriously. That was pretty special. But probably the most memorable was when all I wanted for Christmas was a Junkyard Dog wrestling figure and Santa drove 100 miles away to find one, but the place didn’t have it, so Santa had to write me a poem explaining why I wouldn’t be getting Junkyard Dog that year. (I’ll ask my mom if she still has Santa’s poem stored somewhere. If so, I’ll be sure to post it.) Instead I just got a Rowdy Roddy Piper rasslin’ figure By itself. The Rowdy Roddy Piper figure did a lot of interviews that year, and occasionally had a “midget match” against GI Joe action figures. What about you? What was the best/most memorable holiday gift you ever received?
