<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jul 21 2008, 05:24 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (FOMW @ Jul 21 2008, 05:54 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jul 21 2008, 03:28 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So now you are saying that your knowledge of their on court displays is limited to nationally televised games? Nice back tracking.</div>
No. What I said was that I taped all nationally televised games (which were a large proportion in those days) and so seized the opportunity to view THOSE games multiple times. I went to my local sports bar for years in college to watch the games available only on dish. But grasping that nuance requires attentive reading and comprehension, which are not your long suits, and God forbid that I spelled all this out concretely beforehand because that's the kind of "verbose" thing that so unnerves you and a few others in these parts. </div>
No, what you've proved is that you are full of crap. You are attempting to portray that you remember such a fine detail as the interaction of Bird with his teammates from games viewed in a sports bar. Not that many games were nationally televised in those days. Hell, in 1986, CBS was still tape delaying playoff games and showing 10-15 regular season games. TBS was showing 50-60 regular season games a year.</div>
I attended Berklee College of Music from 1981-1984. That's on Boylston Street (and Massachusetts Avenue) in Boston. If you need some corroboration, I can scan my degree, asshole.
Because the Celtics were such a big deal in the city and in the sports world in general at that time, a large percentage of their games not broadcast nationally were broadcast on local television (channel 4, IIRC), including some road games. I watched those games. A substantial number of their games were also broadcast on CBS and TBS in those days and in later years. There may have only been 50-60 games a year on TBS at that time, but a solid third of them were Celtics games, which if you have anything close to the memory you think you have you will know.
I began recording games in 1984 when I got my first VCR. When I attended law school in Tallahassee in the mid-late 80s, and for the time I lived in Orlando in 88-89, I went to local sports bars to watch satellite feeds of every Celtic game not available on national cable, and by then you could find a feed of every one of their games if you knew where to look. I continued the sports bar solution right through Bird's retirement and beyond, seemingly single-handedly keeping Kooter Brown's in Pensacola in business on otherwise slow weeknights until DBS came in vogue and I got my own dish in 1995. In the years from 1986 to his retirement in 1992, I saw every single game Larry Bird played, minus a handful that had to be missed because of unavoidable personal commitments.
Now, when you've had a chance to observe someone for that long, it's the abnormal, the out of the ordinary that stands out. Of course, you idiot, I'm not claiming to have perfect recall of every moment he and his teammates spent on the court. What I KNOW is that his displays of emotion toward a teammate were so rare, so uncommon, that I can immediately name off hand those that consisted of something other than a high five, casual-pat-on-the-butt-type gesture. If you care to make an even bigger fool of yourself than you already have by challenging me on this, I will name those occasions.
If not, stick your bullshit back up your ass and let it continue to contaminate your being.
