When I saw this tee shirt at the Buffalo Grove swim meet, I immediately thought of the Doc Haznow Chili Open on Crystal Lake.

Guess I should have run it before the meet, but I forgot.

It has a snowman holding the flag on a green. Underneath it says,

I told the man wearing it about the Chili Open.

“Oh, I know about that,” he said.

I asked him where he was from. The answer was McHenry. He had to be a McHenry Marlin swim Dad like me.