re don cherry help me out here in article mfpirbo wbli ispc andrew cmu edu william k willis ww a andrew cmu edu 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
