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Here’s the stories behind the some of the sports license plates you see · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Here's the stories behind the sum of the sports license
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  Speaker 1: plates you see. Written by Kevin Hieronymus, This article is
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  Speaker 1: I've always been fascinated by personalized or vanity license plates
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  Speaker 1: that have a sports theme. There's always a story behind
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  Speaker 1: each one. I've had my cards twenty two inches plates
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  Speaker 1: for more than forty years. It was a tribute to
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals slugger at the time, Jack Clark, who played
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  Speaker 1: for the Redbirds from nineteen eighty five to eighty seven. Once,
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  Speaker 1: when parked in a stadium garage across from Old Bush
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  Speaker 1: Stadium in Saint Louis, I had a boy ask his
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  Speaker 1: parents who was getting into Jack Clark's car. I obviously
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the Cardinals slugger, but may have suggested I was
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  Speaker 1: his brother. Years later, I got Clark to autograph an
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  Speaker 1: old Card's twenty two seconds plate when he came to
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  Speaker 1: Putnam County High School for a baseball clinic. He thought
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  Speaker 1: the story behind it was cool. My favorite plate I
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  Speaker 1: see driving around town for obvious reasons is Yetter four,
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  Speaker 1: a tribute to former Cardinals catcher and future Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame Yadir Molina, a neighbor down the street sports a
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  Speaker 1: whole one inch plate. I try to overlook the cub's
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  Speaker 1: license plate holder. That's a joke. I've never asked her
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  Speaker 1: if she's ever shot a hole in one before. The
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  Speaker 1: late Larry Wilcoxon started a family tradition with his plate's
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  Speaker 1: aishfaugh five, recognizing the five different sports football, girls basketball,
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  Speaker 1: boys basketball, baseball, and softball that he officiated at the
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  Speaker 1: state finals. The Bureau, County and IBCA Hall of Famer
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  Speaker 1: is the only ISA official to do so. His son
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  Speaker 1: Kenny followed up with ISSA SF three for officiating state
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  Speaker 1: finals in football, girls basketball, and boys basketball. His truck
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  Speaker 1: plates now read nine BKBFB, representing the nine total state
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  Speaker 1: finals he's worked. His other plates read BVN forty inches
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  Speaker 1: for Beer Valley North School, where he taught, and the
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  Speaker 1: number forty he wore his senior year at Walnut. At
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  Speaker 1: one time, Kenny's sported plates that read Go Cubs forty
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  Speaker 1: inches for his beloved Cubbies. Keeping up with the family tradition,
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  Speaker 1: Kenny's son Chris aka Bubba, goes with ISA s F
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  Speaker 1: one seconds to represent working the state finals in softball.
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Media sports stringer Brad Martin wears his Packers pride
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  Speaker 1: with the plates G Pack seventy six seconds, with the
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  Speaker 1: seventy six representing his birth year. His dad has plates
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  Speaker 1: that read G Pack fifteen. I know Brad would also
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  Speaker 1: like these plates six Packers that I saw on the
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  Speaker 1: road recently, complete with a Packer logo on the hitch.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Jensen of Princeton is the biggest Broncos fan I know.
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  Speaker 1: He wears his fandom on his seven DNVR plates. As
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  Speaker 1: a salute to Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway. We
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  Speaker 1: flew out to Mile High Stadium for a Monday night
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  Speaker 1: football game on Rob's birthday in two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 1: only to have Brett Favre spoil the party with an
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  Speaker 1: eighty two yard game winning TD pass on the very
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  Speaker 1: first play overtime Princeton football coach Ryan Pearson sports coach
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  Speaker 1: p on his plates. No surprise that the family of
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  Speaker 1: former Princeton basketball coach Bruce Plasek and sons Brian, Justin
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  Speaker 1: and Brandon had squish in three inches in a nod
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  Speaker 1: to the boy's shot of choice. Putnam County teacher Amy
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  Speaker 1: Hall Olson and old Manlius Red Devil used to have
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  Speaker 1: go Bulls five inches plates. Alan Jensen of Manlius gained
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  Speaker 1: the nickname Poodski by pe teacher Joe Ritchie, which he
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  Speaker 1: bore on his plates for many years after a professional
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  Speaker 1: wrestler Ivan Putsky in the seventies. Jensen said Richie seemed
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  Speaker 1: to have nicknames for everyone and is stuck. Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Mike kil Martin of Mendota tried to get Final four,
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  Speaker 1: but it was taken. He came up with FNLF ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine inches. For the year, he took the Mendota girls
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  Speaker 1: to the state tournament, placing fourth. Killer also took three
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  Speaker 1: Mendota boys teams to State. One retired coaching pair Jerry
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  Speaker 1: and Jill Thompson of Princeton I believe had BBVB plates
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  Speaker 1: or maybe it was v DBBB for their respective sports
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  Speaker 1: of choice. This summer on assignment, I saw the plate's
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  Speaker 1: DA DCR seven inches in the PHS parking lots recently.
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  Speaker 1: Not sure who this soccer dad is, but it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Tiger coach David Gray, while sitting in the parking deck
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  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis for a recent fever WNBA game, saw a
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  Speaker 1: fever plate and thought that was pretty cool. Figured out
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  Speaker 1: it was just a fan plate since Indiana does not
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  Speaker 1: require front license plates. Then, on the way home at
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  Speaker 1: my favorite stop, the Beef House in Covington, I and
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  Speaker 1: d while wearing my JJ Weatherholt Cardinals jersey, I came
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  Speaker 1: across a Cubs one thirty two seconds plate. Cammy liked
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  Speaker 1: it better than me. Kevin Hironimus has been the BCR
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  Speaker 1: Sports editor since nineteen eighty six. Contact him at Chironimus
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  Speaker 1: at bcrnews dot com