data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.hockey.54103 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: Don Cherry - help me out, here
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Lines: 36
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