In the winter of 1975, I had the joy of playing a basketball game just before one of the Kansas City King's late season games. We got to mingle with the likes of Nate Archibald, Sam Lacey and Scott Wedman. We also watched them take a team picture which was odd for that late in the season.
About a month later, when we were attending the Kings playoff game against the Chicago Bulls, we picked up a Playoff program and found out what the picture was for - the playoff program's front cover. We then noticed sitting in the background, upper right, is my grandmother (red coat), my grandfather (dark suit & tie) my mother (cream coat) and my sister (grey jacket) and her then boyfriend (tan coat - both of them sitting two rows away from the rest of the family of course).
Jumping forward to the following winter - I happened to be opening a pack of Topps basketball cards. And, there it was, the Wonka Ticket of all sports card (to me anyway), the KC Kings team card featuring my family - immortalized forever!
Rob M.
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