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Vic .. do me a solid, holmes
The next time you see Chaliemon .. pass along my condolences from me to him.
It's a long story but .. Chalie is from a small city .. the smallest city to have a pro sports team in any sport in America ... and it's cool because you know who owns the team? THE PEOPLE of the town. So, they can never move it to a bigger city to make more money.
Anyways, it's called Green Bay in Wisconsin.
They had the FIRST Super Bowl champions with their team. This is all in American football, by the way.
So .. their big time super duper quarterback was named "Bart Starr". When I first met Chalie, Hilly told him I used to be the pregame host of Cleveland Browns football games on the radio and he thought that was pretty cool. So, that was our connection .. American football.
Being that Chalie was from Green Bay (only person I ever met in my life from there. It's small.) .. I called him "Bart Starr" as kind of a joke. And he liked the joke because he would tell me stories about when he was a kid he actually SAW Bart Starr play. Which is pretty freakin' incredible, actually. Fucking guy was an amazing, tough, accurate, quarterback who just had that .. "thing" ... where he won. He just always won the game. Period. So, I had a deep respect for him for that.
Bart Starr died today at the age of 85.
So tell Chalie I was thinkin' of him next time ya see him.
Thanks, man.
JB
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