Kelly Slater with a full lid. Tom Carroll and those shorts. This is the type of stuff that just sends you flying back twenty years in an instant. Actually, this video Kelly shared on his Facebook goes back slightly further to 1993. Also, it’s probably the only time you’ll see Tom Carroll kook it on a board of any kind. Oh and did I mention those shorts? They’re legit.
Now let’s reminisce about all the wonderful happenings of ’93, the same year Haddaway asked us that oh so important question, What is love?:
~Dazed and Confused is released
~Jurassic Park is the highest grossing film to date with squealing velociraptors and a grumpy T-Rex.
~The first “Got Milk?” ad is run.
~Zack Morris and AC Slater graduate from Bayside High, subsequently crushing everything I believed in a decade later when I realize high school is nothing like this. Also, no Kelly Kapowski at my high school so there was that disappointment too.
~The Average cost of a SuperBowl ad: $853,000 (according to pop-culture.us)
~Kelly had just one world title in the bag (his only win that year was the Marui Pro in Japan)
~Derek Ho won the ASP World Title
~John John Florence celebrates his 1st birthday
~The ASP World Tour’s 10 events take place in Australia (2), South Africa, France (3), Japan (2), Brazil and Hawaii.
