What's with all the Rocky stuff?

The people who know me well know that for me, Rocky is more than the cliche workout BS but at the same time I play it out because it's funny. I'm almost half mocking Rocky in the same breath that I'm secretly right there with him in Rocky 3 while he goes through a transformation to deliver a beat down on Clubber Lang (Mr T). I relate to how Rocky came to be. He was a nobody and made himself somebody. I am kind of in the middle somewhere along that continuum. I'm not nobody but I'm not somebody but I have big goals----you following me?

I believe that I have earned enough street cred to play the Rocky card and have it not be too cheesy, but I don't care if it is.

Here's the dues that I've paid that may give me some street cred to not be linked with all the cliche BS that people use with eye of the tiger and associating themselves with Rocky.

At 9 yrs old and no music system other than one of those old tape recorders that lawyers probably used back in the day, I would hold it up to the TV and record eye of the tiger so I could listen to it and listen to it and listen to it.

I had a car named Rocky that wasn't named Rocky right away but actually earned the name. After making 2 cross country trips in it with no problems at all my 1994 Nissan Sentra became Rocky because it was just tough as hell and could take a beating.

At my wedding as a joke we played eye of the tiger when Lindsay and I walked in. We all had a really good laugh but at the same time we were secretly totally into it and ready to go workout or spar with each other... OK maybe I was the only one who felt that way.

At my last ironman, my brother who used to watch all the Rocky's with me would say "aint so bad" "aint so bad" when I would run by referring to when Rocky was mocking Clubber Lang and tiring him out prior to handing out a major can of whoopass...my brother might as well as have given me speed because this pumped me up so much that next thing I knew I was seriously Hardening the F*** up.

Yeah it is pretty cheesy I admit it.