Backboard

[BillyMac]

I've only lived in my little town, in my little corner of Connecticut, for about thirty-five years. Back when I was tending bar part-time, the old timers at the bar told me that my little town's high school had one of the first "glass" backboards in Connecticut. The entrance to the gymnasium was in the middle of the endline, and I've been told that visiting fans would walk into the gymnasium and just stare up at the backboard. Oddly, the rectangular backboard was only "glass" from the rim up, below the rim it was wood. That high school was eventually converted into an elementary school and the half "glass", half wood, backboards are still there. The gymnasium is used for travel team games, and visiting fans still look up at our "odd" backboards thinking that they're kind of old fashioned, when, at one time, they were "cutting edge".