Happy ending: Taj Burrow signs harvest-year deal with Globe!

Wily move from former world number two.

Who don’t love a happy ending?

For those among us fretting that Taj Burrow, the forty-one-year-old former world number two whose face still glows and sparkles every bit as much as when he was twelve, was doomed to a niggardly retirement because of the screwy surf industry, rest easy.

Just one hour ago, Globe, the skate label started in Melbourne in 1985 by Pete, Matt and Stevie Hill, and which pivoted to surf in the early two-thousands with its Wes Anderson-pastiche surf movies by Joe G and a loaded surf team that included Occy, the Hobgoods, Dion Agius, Creed McTags etc, has appointed free-agent Taj to wear its pink slacks and rust coloured blouses.

Taj, of course, has been wearing Globe shoes for twenty years or thereabouts and there was a time, I don’t know a dozen years ago, say, when Globe tried to outbid Billabong for Taj while he was still on tour.

I imagine the price, in 2020, is slightly reduced.

Congratulations to all parties.

 

CULT OF FREEDOM : THE TAJ PART | GLOBE BRAND
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?uzzled
?uzzled
6 years ago

What exactly does the word “niggardly” mean? It sounds like something that I would never say.

Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
6 years ago
Reply to  ?uzzled

Good to see somebody asked this hard hitting question. I was wondering about that word myself as soon as I read it.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

Jack freestone

Low wide stinkbug stance
Low wide stinkbug stance
6 years ago

If I’m not mistaken getting done for possession is what stuffed him up because he couldn’t travel to the us anymore. I met him a few times, he was working at the hardcore warehouse. I remember talking to him and he said how cool it was that he hadn’t had a winter in like 3 years.
Terrible ending to his story.

Low wide stinkbug stance
Low wide stinkbug stance
6 years ago

Peter and Steven started hardcore in 1985 importing skateboards. Among other things they imported roller blades, stussy, mossimo, split and of course vision Street wear. Made an absolute fortune. The shoes came much later, as did the other brother and trading halts.

slaters foot
slaters foot
6 years ago

apparently you do enough to click on this article and spend the time leaving your comment

Subantarctic Communist Sealion
Subantarctic Communist Sealion
6 years ago
Reply to  slaters foot

He asks a very good question when examining for more than 5 seconds what recreational surfers should actually care about. On that note, when is low tide?

janeausten
janeausten
6 years ago

https://youtu.be/8wDiszmA2o8
Looks pretty good, have you seen this?

Doobalachy
Doobalachy
6 years ago
Reply to  janeausten

excellent movie, something the surf industry should put out raw and real regardless of the end

Jordy's pout
Jordy's pout
6 years ago

Nobody took a fancy movie of me emailing the print shop, waiting a few days for them to bother to get back to me, collecting and paying for my stickers, cutting them out by hand and applying them to my boards as part of my Hurluley contractual obligations, and then getting a lame head dip that I claimed, to announce my arrival into the Hurluley team.

I’m starting to think maybe my sponsorship deal isn’t all I expected it to be…
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

channelbottom
channelbottom
6 years ago
Reply to  Jordy's pout

Yeaaahhh… well the movie I’m talking about is a sort of hush-hush private thing that Derek asked me to do. I’m not supposed to tell anyone about touching myself like that.

Your Hurluley check is in the mail, as soon as our warehouse full of slave labour-produced fin cozies gets sold.

Jordy's pout
Jordy's pout
6 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

Oh shit, I didn’t mean for you to see my post! How do I delete it? Shit! Aaahhhhh, is it too late? Am I going to get punished for bringing the brand into disrepute?

What I meant was:

“Yay Hurluley! It’s the best brand ever, and they really look after me. I’m so proud to be associated with such a high quality “lifestyle” company. You kids out there oughta buy lots of Hurluley merch, y’all.”

(did I do that right, Boss?)

channelbottom
channelbottom
6 years ago
Reply to  Jordy's pout

Perfect.
Ya done good kid.

Now we gotta go stop dem pesky schmoozles whose messin with da Grits.

Bring the Mincekit.
We gotta go show deez clowns a new meaning of da word ‘corporate hospitality’. N’um sayin?

(Pulls fin cozy over head and immediately walks into the wall knocking himself unconscious)

Ghostface Braddah
Ghostface Braddah
6 years ago

Were people really worried about a multi millionaire?

Shroom
Shroom
6 years ago

My heart really went out to him for a minute,between living and working through bushfires then floods hey..glad he got his.

beachgrit
beachgrit
6 years ago

Or bizarro Taj, Rob Machado, born in Australia etc.

Instalo Feedeira
Instalo Feedeira
6 years ago

Puffy shoes, slim wallet.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

Free stickers.
Yay!

channelbottom
channelbottom
6 years ago
The Bitchy Crab
The Bitchy Crab
6 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

Your persistence is exciting.

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
6 years ago

Chashark Smith is a daily inspiration for us all to battle on against the odds.

The Bitchy Crab
The Bitchy Crab
6 years ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

The roaring twenties’ own Walter WInchell.

channelbottom
channelbottom
6 years ago

Oh thank goodness.
I thought you weren’t going to nominate me for the Surfer Video Awards.

Hurluley has BG’s back.


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