I recently moved into a new apartment, so I’ve been doing a lot of unpacking lately.  This unpacking also includes a number of boxes I’d had packed up and stored in Boston for a while, some of the boxes had even stayed packed for a while when I was still living in Boston.  I think when you take your entire (material) life out of cardboard boxes you see a bit of who you are.  I already know soccer is and always has been a big part of my life, this image might do a bit better job of highlighting that to others.

In this picture are a few different generations of Adidas Predators going back to the Predator Manias (I even have a few older pairs somewhere back home in North Dakota) as well as the the Nike R9 chrome Mercurial Vapors made for the original Ronaldo (those boots are painful to wear, but they sure are light).  This is probably a bit over $1500 worth of gear, but it all got very good use…