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Re: Bird vs Walker
I have to agree, Jamey.
Dorine
----- Original Message -----
Joe and co.,
it's easy to get caught up in comparing
Walker and Bird, and then
comparing the fan and media's treatment of
them.
But IMO, there's only 1 reason why Bird was treated as a king, and
Walker
is thrown to the wolves.
Bird's teams won, right from the
beginning.
Walker's teams have never made the playoffs.
Granted
Bird had lots of help, and it doesn't explain the good son/bad son
of Mercer
vs. Walker, but I gotta believe, if Bird's teams had sucked
until 1985, he
would've been crucified as well as a no-good hick that
should be packed off
to his farm in Indiana. All kinds of sordid stories
would have been
printed about Bird, Parish, and eventually Johnson, if
they lost, and lost
often.
Winning forgives all.
-Jamey