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General Dog posted:I'm not really familiar with his body of work, was he a bad broadcaster or just a good broadcaster who was racist? He was kind of fun decades ago when it was cool to show highlights of brain damage causing hits and his racism was hidden behind Cold War era anti-Soviet rhetoric. Not great, but it was entertaining and everyone was pretty dumb then. But he never moved passed that and in 2019 was still talking about how a dude that got beheaded by a flying elbow should have kept his head up on that clean hit and how you need good old Canadian boys to win. So he went from cool, to old crazy uncle/grandpa you make excuses for, to batshit crazy racist.
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a correction to the above: it's still very cool to show highlights of brain damage causing hits. it is just also now miserably tragic. thanks for ruining the fun once again, science
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Aye Doc posted:who the hell replaces don cherry Mike Milbury. He's got the Boston coach who lost in the Cup Final credibility.
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tarbrush posted:He's being defended by a man literally called Gammon. Reality is too on the nose i've notice gammons has a lot of bad #resist opinions
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Don still being on the air was probably one roadblock to getting fighting out of the game so hopefully this speeds that up Goodbye Racist
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My enduring memory of Don around the rink, from regular games to outdoor games, would be how he wanted to pet every dog there, even if those dogs are security dogs that had vest telling people not to pet them. He loved petting those dogs!
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AsInHowe posted:My enduring memory of Don around the rink, from regular games to outdoor games, would be how he wanted to pet every dog there, even if those dogs are security dogs that had vest telling people not to pet them. He loved petting those dogs! don to run the we rate dogs twitter account confirmed
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yellowcar posted:don to run the we rate dogs twitter account confirmed Not sure their audience would appreciate rating them based on their birthplace.
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yellowcar posted:don to run the we rate dogs twitter account confirmed All Labradors and Newfoundlands.
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do you think pierre mcguire has enough behind-the-scenes pull to get the coach's corner gig
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Aye Doc posted:do you think pierre mcguire has enough behind-the-scenes pull to get the coach's corner gig I'm not sure how many people are lining up for this job in the immediate aftermath...Pierre's one of the few who are dumb enough to think it's an actual opportunity.
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Aye Doc posted:who the hell replaces don cherry Luongo
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Known to the HNIC audience as Lalongo
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Aye Doc posted:do you think pierre mcguire has enough behind-the-scenes pull to get the coach's corner gig
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grack posted:Luongo Unironically this. Give me my funny man.
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grack posted:Luongo Why would you punish Lu like that? The man deserves a handwritten apology from God Almighty Himself for dragging the Canucks to within fingertips’ reach of the Stanley Cup and then the rest of the team catastrophically making GBS threads themselves dry all over him at the worst possible moment. Sending him to Coach’s Corner is the opposite of that.
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Why not Tortarella, not like he's going to have a job next year.
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Every Canadian sports media dipshit has been emulating Cherry for my entire life so my hopes aren't high for replacements. But good to take small victories where we can find them,
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quote:But he never moved passed that and in 2019 was still talking about how a dude that got beheaded by a flying elbow should have kept his head up People should keep their head up if they don’t want it off imho SatoshiMiwa posted:Don still being on the air was probably one roadblock to getting fighting out of the game so hopefully this speeds that up also wrong
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Not that theme, this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZMnF1VNlE
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Island Nation posted:Not that theme, this one I was going to say Brass Bonanza, but this is better
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Yep, good to see him gone. Cherry wasn't completely evil, like he didn't have the directed spite of a Coulter or even the pettiness and insecurity of a trump, but his underlying assumptions about reality were completely informed by privilege and xenophobia. Add to that being a "larger than life" media personality who lives in a bubble and he would never have reformed or even sought any kind of self reflection. What always bothered me the most, even as a kid, was that he was blowharding all over the place but literally had no record of success in professional hockey, ever. His rise seems to be more like a pro wrestling promo gone horribly wrong than the story of a hockey man rising to the top.
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It seems to me that Brian Burke has been being groomed for Cherrys job. He's the same sort of loud grumpy old guy who likes hitting and team toughness, but his strong opinions are confined to hockey as far as I know
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Too many men, too much racism Aye Doc posted:do you think pierre mcguire has enough behind-the-scenes pull to get the coach's corner gig ohhh myyyy godddd can you imagine the reaction to that on top of the firing already? Crossing everything I have that can be crossed
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replace him with bryz, just as problematic but actually entertaining
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Burke's late son was gay. During his time in Toronto he marched in the pride parade and has spoken out against homophobia in other ways. So, at the very least, he's not a complete regressive.
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Duck Rodgers posted:It seems to me that Brian Burke has been being groomed for Cherrys job. He's the same sort of loud grumpy old guy who likes hitting and team toughness, but his strong opinions are confined to hockey as far as I know Not quite true. Burke's a vocal LGBTQ+ advocate.
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Duck Rodgers posted:It seems to me that Brian Burke has been being groomed for Cherrys job. He's the same sort of loud grumpy old guy who likes hitting and team toughness, but his strong opinions are confined to hockey as far as I know Brian Burke exudes the energy of a deeply hungover man who has just been forcefully woken up from a long nap
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Scaramouche posted:Yep, good to see him gone. Cherry wasn't completely evil, like he didn't have the directed spite of a Coulter or even the pettiness and insecurity of a trump, but his underlying assumptions about reality were completely informed by privilege and xenophobia. Add to that being a "larger than life" media personality who lives in a bubble and he would never have reformed or even sought any kind of self reflection. The thing is, Don pretty much just lives in a bubble, he only really cares about hockey, church, veterans, dogs, and family. That's the full breadth of interests, and nothing really can pry a very old man from that kind of existence when they've lived it for decades. His mindset was of 1940's and 1950's Kingston, ON, and that's about it. His reforms and self-reflection have come from change happening within his world, like him advocating for more women's hockey from time to time. Outside of that, he never had editors, never had producers, never had anyone besides his kids to steer him towards some kind of better communication. Heck, a running feature on Coach's Corner was him preparing too many things to talk about, and then spending time on air trying to figure out which one to pick.
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fartknocker posted:Bart Yabsley. Yes?
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grack posted:Not quite true. Burke's a vocal LGBTQ+ advocate. Has Cherry ever specifically said anything about LGBTQ? I'm guessing no, seeing he definitely pops about 40 viagra in preparation every time they show one of those reels of the guys walking into the arena in their suits https://twitter.com/DonCherryParody That banner pic. I forgot Strombo had a cup of coffee on HNIC https://twitter.com/DonCherryParody/status/1193535223784497153 codo27 fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Nov 11, 2019 |
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uncle bob has a good take re:don https://www.tsn.ca/radio/montreal-690/mckenzie-here-s-what-i-think-of-don-cherry-s-comments-1.1395999 (skip to 10:23)
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