Re: Eric Williams...

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth, I grew up (and still am) in NY. I'm a Boston Celtic and
Sox fan, along with the 49ers.  Go figure.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vinny Natale" <vnatale@xxxxxxx>
To: <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:39 PM
Subject: Eric Williams...


> I follow three teams - Providence College, the Yankees, and the
> Celtics.  And Eric Williams is all of them wrapped up into one!
>
> Vinny
>
>
> THE PRINCE SPEAKS
>
>
> You can take the boy out of Yankees country, but you can't take the
Yankees
> out of the boy. So when you ask Celtics forward Eric Williams -- a Newark
> native -- if he's still a Yankees fan, he reaches up into his locker and
> grabs a white hat with that familiar interlocking NY symbol.
>
>
> "That give you an answer?" Williams said. "I wear my Yankee hat everywhere
> I go. In Boston. In the locker room. Doesn't matter."
>
>
> But isn't being a Yankee fan sort of an occupational hazard for an athlete
> in Boston?
>
>
> "Here's what I tell people in Boston," Williams said. "If you grew up in
> Boston, if you went to school in Boston, and then you moved to New York
for
> a big money job, would you become a Yankees fan? Of course not. So I'm not
> going to change, either.
>
>
> "You can't take my childhood away. I was a Yankees fan back when Phil
> Rizutto was calling the games. The teams weren't very good back then, but
> we still had the tradition. I was a Dave Winfield fan. Him and Tommy John,
> Ron Guidry, Dave Righetti -- those were my guys. Growing up, I breathed
New
> York Yankees. And I still do."