Re: News from LA

["Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@hotmail.com>]

I hope I speak for a lot of people when I say "Who gives a rats ass about 
anything to do with the Lakers". Personally, when it comes to the lakers, I 
could care less if the guy has broadcast 1 in a row or 15,000 in a row.


>From: Douglas342@AOL.com
>To: celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: News from LA
>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:54:12 EST
>
>       Front page of today's LA Times has a story that Laker announcer 
>Chick
>Hearn's string of 3,338 consecutive games behind the mike is over as he
>starts recovery from coronary surgery.   Hearn, thought to be about 85, 
>last
>missed a game in November 1965 when he was stranded in Arkansas by a
>snowstorm.  Hearn had gone 13 seasons without missing a game when Kobe 
>Bryant
>was born.
>       I have listened to my share of Laker games in the 25 years I have 
>lived
>here, and Chick is a good announcer.   All Boston fans should tip their 
>hats
>to this guy who goes back to the Russell years during the height of the
>Celtic-Laker rivalry.  Remember the year he and Johnny Most split the
>announcing job at the All-Star Game?



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