| pitbulllady |
10-17-2006 02:47 AM |
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Originally Posted by scary_dream
(Post 11058)
Yeah, I remember him making a reference to his possible competitive sports playing, but the only two things that I don't get are: 1) The trophy appears to have been made to look like him AFTER the injuries (I'm not absolutely 100% positive on this, though, because the quality of the video might have fuzzed it a little). Since he makes is relatively clear that he couldn't play professionally after his injuries occured, perhaps he might have won it in a tournament for people/IFs with handicaps? Of course, Wilt never treats his missing arm like a handicap, so maybe that's why he was so good at it and won a trophy of his likeness? and 2) if it IS of him with both arms and eyes and from a time whenever he played competitively, why would he be selling it? I know he probably has a lot of bad memories, so why would he sell something that is seemingly from a high point in his life? The only way I could see that happening is if it accidentally got put in there by someone who didn't talk to him that much and thought "He probably has hundreds of these."
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The trophy could have been made in HONOR of Wilt, to give to some other athlete, perhaps someone who also had a physical handicap to overcome. It could also have been given to him for something else other than athletic achievement, in gratitude for something he'd done in the community, perhaps having something to do with him being "Friend Of The Month" so many times for rescuing abandoned IF's. Knowing Wilt, if Madame Foster asked him to donate anything for the sale, especially if the money were to benefit Foster's, he'd donate anything of any value he owned, without thinking twice about doing so.
It also suddenly occured to me what the object in the box that Wilt finds(which looks a bit like his arm)actually is-it's a BACK SCRATCHER! You probably have seen the ones made of wood that you can buy in some roadside novelty places, that look like a HUMAN arm and hand, right? I guess someone made one for Wilt, and he either put it away(like most people would do with such a lovely "gift")and forgot about it, or the person actually forgot to give it to him in the first place, and this was the first time he'd seen it.
pitbulllady |
