Friends in bands can be a good source of free shirts. I seem to end up knowing some people before they form bands who then decide that they should make shirts. Not Herb is the band of this shirt.

I went to a show at the local Irish bar to see Not Herb perform one Saturday night in March 2004. The show was a good show as far as an audience member would have been concerned. I did some talking, a good portion of which was with one of my former managers from Movies 8 (which is where I got the Blast From the Past shirt). We discussed lighting for events. He also told me that a good principle in business is to establish a price in your head as to how much you need to meet expenses and make a profit of any kind and then to never, ever go down from that price for any reason. I think that would make sense, and if I am ever in a position where I can be a contracter of some sort I intend on putting that into action. That night there was also a guy named Drew that looked like another Drew I knew, but fortunatly was not him. Fortunately, because I did not say anything to this imposter Drew. During the time of cleanup, Ken handed Mike a " jeweled challis" as I called it because even though it was a cup, it was rhinestoned in a way it reminded me of a shirt. After such a presentation, Ken recalled that he had shirts to give away. He asked me directly on the mic if I wanted one. Of course I do. So I look through all three of the shirts and find the shirt discussed here to be the most unique and with the best odds of actually fitting me. I talked to Mike and Nicole for a little bit, saying what words I could get in before I left. I had thought people had already left, so I did not track down some of the other people that I knew at the show. Bailey, my good friend later "busted my balls" so to speak on this.

There are issues about this shirt which are not clear. First, who are the Cleveland Cobras? Cleveland resident Russa had never heard of the Cobras soccer team when I asked her about it after multiple people asked me about who the Cobras were. I am known to do a certain amount of reseach for the write-ups of these shirts to make up for my lack of proofreading. However, my sluething has brought up little to confirm the original team for which this Cleveland Cobra jersey represents. I am guessing that it is a shirt from some incarnation of the Cleveland Cobras soccer club, which seems to field many different age grouped clubs. My concern with saying it is them for sure is that the logo is not close to what I have on the shirt. To me, the logo more closely matches the profesional Cleveland Cobras of the American Soccer Leauge who played from 1974-1981. Of course, this can be a matter of the Soccer club just taking the old teams logo for use at one point as it is highly unlikely that a jersey from 1981 would make it to 2004 and not be noticed for what it is. The other mystery is who was #54 on the Cobras? Certainly it was Not Herb, but who was that masked man?