with the afro, 6'9"

it wasn't free junk like fat sam was getting; no, i actually had to purchase this card for my "meaningful and just because" mini-collection

and i couldn't put it on the underhill's tab.

it's a chevy chase sticker auto from 2022-23 leaf optichrome basketball. this is a kaleidescope green parallel, numbered to 3 and has a mediocre autograph. with all of the different designs and parallels, there have been a bunch of these on the secondary market - some with better signatures and some with a lot worse. i believe i saw one that chase snuck in with an expletive.  

anyway, fans of the movie "fletch" will recognize the image of chase in a lakers jersey which was part of a dream sequence in which he actually took the floor for the team. of course, fletch also wore a lakers jersey outside of dream sequences - including a magic johnson jersey because "kareem's in the wash". i believe the image used on the card comes from when fletch was, in the words of the legendary chick hearn, shaking off defenders "with ease".

"fletch" is such a quotable movie with a ton of great lines. when i was in college, a fellow student explained his tardiness to a writing class one day by saying that "a manure spreader jack-knifed on the santa ana. god awful mess". i, of course, muttered under my breath "you should see my shoes".  being in southern california, this was a somewhat realistic excuse, unlike say, "my car hit a water buffalo". 

as if to prove my point about how quotable the movies is, on an espn baseball telecast from dodger stadium earlier this year, eduardo perez actually said "it's all ball bearings nowadays" which was a treat. no mention of fetzer valves, though.