Terry Tuesday: Moose And Movies
Terry Tuesday: Moose And Movies
If you've seen the movie TERRY, then you know how tough it was for Terry Brands to deal with losing to Kendall Cross in the 1996 Olympic Trials. After winni
If you've seen the movie TERRY, then you know how tough it was for Terry Brands to deal with losing to Kendall Cross in the 1996 Olympic Trials. After winning world titles in 1993 and 1995, Brands was the favorite to make the 1996 Olympic Team and win the gold medal, but was upset by Cross in the Olympic Trials finals.
The summer of 1996 was an extremely difficult one for Terry. He was in a bad place in life and was feeling a lot of pain.
Tom Brands and Royce Alger tell the story of Moose and Movies, a weekly get together that was the result of Terry's pain and suffering.
Tom:
"It’s July in Iowa City and Terry had a trailer. And he had a wood burning stove in that trailer. And it’s 100 degrees and it’s 80 percent humidity. Terry won’t answer the phone and Alger is a big brother and a leader."
Royce:
"He hadn’t left his house so he (Tom) gave me 20 bucks. It was probably 40, I probably pocketed 20. I had some milk and just some things. I knocked on his door, he lived in a trailer on the edge of town by a wooded area. And I hear, ‘come on in'. And I come in and I look around he’s on an Airdyne bike in full greys, sweats. It’s 4:00 in the afternoon."
Tom:
"And Alger says, ‘hey how you doing?’ Terry answers, ‘good’. Alger replies, ‘you got anything to eat?’ Terry tells him, ‘If you can find something in the freezer, you can eat it.’
Alger goes to the freezer, opens the freezer. Gets way back in there, there’s nothing in the freezer. There’s one package. It's moose--we shot a moose in Alaska. We had this moose butchered and that was the end of the moose meat. It was the last package of moose meat."
Royce:
"This meat. I boiled it first and then barbecued it and it was still... It felt like Chevy Chase when he had the dry meat. Mark Ironside stopped in, he lived right down the road in another trailer. He stopped in and that was our very first moose and movies night. The legendary moose and movies."
Tom:
"We had to have moose and you had to have a movie. And we had an eight-week period where, say our membership was eight. One week one your name is drawn and it's your movie. So when its your week, you’re thinking the whole time, 'What movie are you gonna pick?' Because I want my buddies to be double-thumbs up. Because the double-thumbs up is the ultimate compliment. If you got double-thumbs down then you didn’t pick a very good movie. So what we would do is alternate for this eight-week period in the fall before the season really got ratcheted up where we had moose and movies. That was the start of Moose and Movies. And hey, without the pain that Terry Brands went through, we wouldn’t have had Moose and Movies."
Do yourself a favor and check out TERRY again, or for the first time if, for whatever reason, you still have not seen it.
WATCH: TERRY
The summer of 1996 was an extremely difficult one for Terry. He was in a bad place in life and was feeling a lot of pain.
Tom Brands and Royce Alger tell the story of Moose and Movies, a weekly get together that was the result of Terry's pain and suffering.
Tom:
"It’s July in Iowa City and Terry had a trailer. And he had a wood burning stove in that trailer. And it’s 100 degrees and it’s 80 percent humidity. Terry won’t answer the phone and Alger is a big brother and a leader."
Royce:
"He hadn’t left his house so he (Tom) gave me 20 bucks. It was probably 40, I probably pocketed 20. I had some milk and just some things. I knocked on his door, he lived in a trailer on the edge of town by a wooded area. And I hear, ‘come on in'. And I come in and I look around he’s on an Airdyne bike in full greys, sweats. It’s 4:00 in the afternoon."
Tom:
"And Alger says, ‘hey how you doing?’ Terry answers, ‘good’. Alger replies, ‘you got anything to eat?’ Terry tells him, ‘If you can find something in the freezer, you can eat it.’
Alger goes to the freezer, opens the freezer. Gets way back in there, there’s nothing in the freezer. There’s one package. It's moose--we shot a moose in Alaska. We had this moose butchered and that was the end of the moose meat. It was the last package of moose meat."
Royce:
"This meat. I boiled it first and then barbecued it and it was still... It felt like Chevy Chase when he had the dry meat. Mark Ironside stopped in, he lived right down the road in another trailer. He stopped in and that was our very first moose and movies night. The legendary moose and movies."
Tom:
"We had to have moose and you had to have a movie. And we had an eight-week period where, say our membership was eight. One week one your name is drawn and it's your movie. So when its your week, you’re thinking the whole time, 'What movie are you gonna pick?' Because I want my buddies to be double-thumbs up. Because the double-thumbs up is the ultimate compliment. If you got double-thumbs down then you didn’t pick a very good movie. So what we would do is alternate for this eight-week period in the fall before the season really got ratcheted up where we had moose and movies. That was the start of Moose and Movies. And hey, without the pain that Terry Brands went through, we wouldn’t have had Moose and Movies."
Do yourself a favor and check out TERRY again, or for the first time if, for whatever reason, you still have not seen it.
WATCH: TERRY
