Re: This is great!

[Theresa Lee <tjoyce@mit.edu>]

The Cleveland fan is famous in Cleveland (kind of like those Jets fans who
are now famous). The fan was giving Riley a hard time after Riley went for
the ball on the sidelines. He called him a CBA player and fat. Pitino
called the fan fat in response (a major preoccupation for Pitino is getting
everyone around him in great shape. I think he looks at that as having
self-respect.) Neither RP nor the fan would let it go and they went at it
for a few minutes. I was getting annoyed at RP b/c the C's were losing at
the time and I thought it looked bad for the coach to be focusing on the
fans (ML would sometimes do that and it drove me crazy), BUT he was
sticking up for one of his players....a plus!

Oh, and the guy DID have a large beer (I'm assuming) gut.

Theresa


>Anybody see this, which was quoted in The Sporting News:
>
>"What an athletic body you've got! Have another beer. Hey, Budweiser! Get a
>Bud over here."
>
>                         -- Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino, to a chubby fan
>in Cleveland who was harassing Eric Riley.