You going over to Dick’s house after the game?

 

You going over to Dick’s house after the game?

     One of Greg's all-time favorite one-liners was his description of an audacious line-cutter at a Ram game back in the early Gabe era. Greg, like a dozen or more fans was waiting in the concessions line at half-time of a very warm Fall afternoon at the Coliseum. A raggedy phony wearing hounds-tooth slacks with a piss stain the size of a silver dollar on the front stepped into the space between the man ordering his food and the rest of the long-suffering customers. It was just a bold and stunningly rude move by an ill-mannered fake avoiding the courtesy demanded of the situation. He turned to no one in particular, trying to legitimize his interloping and asked "you going over to Dick's house after the game?" He was bluffing the fact that he would be welcome at one of the Rams star players home after the game ended. This connection entitled him to butt-in line supposedly. "Dick" was Dick Bass, a very skilled halfback, nicknamed the motor scooter who was the lone star during some very lean years. Dick Bass, from COP (College of the Pacific in Stockton) ran for a thousand yards in a year when the team won just a couple of games. Dick was beloved by despondant Ram fans and a dapper gentleman who later was a broadcaster. Richard Lee Bass was a classy individual and most certainly would not have invited a cologned bullshit artist with a piss-stain on his slacks to come to his home. The absurdity of the intrusion and deranged statement was just another scene from the files of old Los Angeles we found hilarious. Greg knew the mere mention of the phrase would get a laugh out of me and he used it well and often.