The Dude

That’s so weird. I was thinking about him yesterday. A shame how he’s never mentioned. No shout out on the radio show ( I expected a BUDDY D’S point after as they did after Hap). No picture or references in the dome of any significance. A shame. I too grew up on him. I’ve posted this before but I Moved to Charlotte for a couple years and after about a week of living there is when he died. Talk about homesick. Couldn’t even get the station on the air to listen to the tribute. I called the station and talked to one of the producers/call screeners about Buddy, the Saints, and life in general. Got to hear some funny stories about working with him. He was pretty shook up about it. I wound up getting him to leave me on hold so I could listen to the show over the phone. He let me stay on hold for a couple hours tieing up a call in line.
Pisss me off.
Players and coaches are professionals and they aren’t going to let a local media talk show host effect their play. A good coach wouldn’t let that happen so even f it did, it would be because of poor coaching. Those guys have to deal with opposing teams players giving them **** all the time. It’s a coaches job to get players mentality tough.
We had some bad coaches back then but callers and media had nothing to do with it.

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