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From: duncan@?? (Nicholas Duncan)
Subject: Re: Don Cherry - help me out, here
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
|> In article  "William K. Willis"  writes:
|> >
|> >     As a person who has rarely even SEEN Don Cherry and doesn't know
|> >anything about him, I don't know whether it is just this area
|> >(Pittsburgh) of the USA that is "deprived" of his broadcasts or whether
|> >he's a Canadian thing altogether.  Seriously, what is he all about?  I
|> >know he was a coach at one time, and from the volume of posts about him,
|> >SOMEONE surely is getting a steady diet of him somehow, but my question
|> >is, what is the deal with him?  Secondly, are the comments of his that I
|> >read about on the net merely flame bait, or do people actually take him
|> >seriously?  I gotta tell you, from what I see, he really sounds like an
|> >ass.  Let me know - maybe I'm missing something.
|> >
|> 
|> For those of you who complain about Don Cherry, and wonder why he is
|> popular...
|> 
|> the reply is Dick Vitale and John Madden and Bobby Knight and
|> Joe Garagiola and Howard Cosell.
|> 
|> John Madden picks Gary Clark of the Redskins for his All-Madden team
|> a lot, over much better receivers...for much the same reasons Cherry
|> sings the praises of Doug Gilmour...a little guy with heart...yet one
|> doesn't see a string of American posts saying that John Madden has
|> lost his marbles.
|> 
|> Dick Vitale is always promoting this kid from this high school or
|> that college with outrageous statements.
|> 
|> Why should Americans expect that Canada would not have such characters
|> in relation to our greatest passion...which is hockey?   Canadians
|> are very similar to Americans...culturally our sports are just hockey
|> and curling, whereas with Americans it is football/basketball/baseball
|> and bowling.
|> 
|> Gerald

I'd like to add that I think Canadian hockey fans like Don because his kind of hockey (the hockey he promotes in his TV appearances) is the kind that they think used to get played in the old 6 team NHL. So there's a kind of nostagia for the old days, before expansion, the Soviet series, Gretzky and even Bobby Orr, when guys weren't afraid to take a hit, nobody floated and defensemen played defence. Who cares that that probably never really existed, the myth is still around in Canada and all the European in



fluence on the game has diminished it in some people's eyes.

Personally, I'd like to add before I get flamed, I love the fast-paced "European" game and think Don Cherry is a bit of an idiot. I have to say that I missed him when I was living in the States, though. He is entertaining, even if you end up throwing your popcorn at the screen when he's on.
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