Don Cherry fired
Posted by billhoward
Don Cherry fired
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrk.east.verizon.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 08:44AM
85-year-old Don Cherry's time in hockey - player, coach, commentator - is done. He was fired from SportsNet after an on-air rant about immigrants' lack of appreciation, in his opinion, for being able to live in Canada. Speaking Saturday on Hockey Night in Canada, Cherry said the newcomers were too uncaring or too cheap to buy and a wear a poppy, Canada's symbol of remembrance for veterans: "You people... you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that."
Great story on the decline and fall of Cherry in the Toronto Globe and Mail:
Don Cherry, fired by Sportsnet, hated any changes to hockey – and his imaginary Canada
Great story on the decline and fall of Cherry in the Toronto Globe and Mail:
Don Cherry, fired by Sportsnet, hated any changes to hockey – and his imaginary Canada
Cathal Kelly
[Cherry] started out on the CBC in the early eighties. He quickly found his straight man in Ron MacLean. He learned the showman’s trick of using costume to distract from content – because there wasn’t much of the latter.
He continued to talk about a Canada in which everyone grew up near an iced-over pond and held the flag above all things. But Mr. Cherry’s Canada was not an idyllic place. It was beset by the encroachment of foreign influence into our national game and our way of life.
In the end, what Mr. Cherry really hated – and he hated an awful lot of things – was change. He wanted hockey and Canada to remain just as they had been when he first got to know them. A man’s game played by woodsy John Wayne types who could knock your teeth out on the rink and then help you raise a barn on the weekend.
His vision of masculinity suited this country for a time, when it felt itself weak. But now that Canada seemed to be getting the better of the 21st century, there was no need for Mr. Cherry’s bantam rooster routine. It became provincial and gauche.
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Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Cop at Lynah (---.twcny.res.rr.com)
Date: November 12, 2019 12:09PM
Another victim of the cancel culture
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Dafatone (---.sub-174-219-4.myvzw.com)
Date: November 12, 2019 12:11PM
Good.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrk.east.verizon.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 12:27PM
The wardrobe was reason enough to move on.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Dafatone (206.209.15.---)
Date: November 12, 2019 12:30PM
billhoward
The wardrobe was reason enough to move on.
I liked the wardrobe.
I didn't like the constant whining that only Canadians were violent enough to really play hockey, and that's the only thing he did. Other than wear ridiculous suits.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: upprdeck (---.fs.cornell.edu)
Date: November 12, 2019 01:35PM
How many people are out of job now that he wont be buying all these wacky outfits?
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: nshapiro (192.148.195.---)
Date: November 12, 2019 01:52PM
All of those clothes are made in China, so they don't matter according to him.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Swampy (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 02:12PM
billhoward
The wardrobe was reason enough to move on.
He makes a good case for tariffs.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 02:15PM
He was an idiot. I doubt he realized most people were laughing at him, not with him.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: RichH (45.41.134.---)
Date: November 12, 2019 02:16PM
I just roll my eyes at any sports reporter who does the "LOOK AT ME AND MY GARISHLY OUTLANDISH CLOTHING, AREN'T I INTERESTING" thing. That goes for Cherry, Craig Sager (RIP), and even Ken Rosenthal's charity bow ties. Anyone can put on a clown suit. Very few are excellent in that field.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 02:20PM
They aren't even original. They're all ripping off Lindsey Nelson (who actually was an excellent broadcaster).RichH
I just roll my eyes at any sports reporter who does the "LOOK AT ME AND MY GARISHLY OUTLANDISH CLOTHING, AREN'T I INTERESTING" thing. That goes for Cherry, Craig Sager (RIP), and even Ken Rosenthal's charity bow ties. Anyone can put on a clown suit. Very few are excellent in that field.
As with Dump's inanities it's just a distraction from the lack of anything of substance.
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Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: nshapiro (192.148.195.---)
Date: November 12, 2019 02:46PM
Trotsky
They aren't even original. They're all ripping off Lindsey Nelson (who actually was an excellent broadcaster).RichH
I just roll my eyes at any sports reporter who does the "LOOK AT ME AND MY GARISHLY OUTLANDISH CLOTHING, AREN'T I INTERESTING" thing. That goes for Cherry, Craig Sager (RIP), and even Ken Rosenthal's charity bow ties. Anyone can put on a clown suit. Very few are excellent in that field.
As with Dump's inanities it's just a distraction from the lack of anything of substance.
I don't know. I think Lindsey Nelson just had genuinely bad taste. He wasn't dressing to impress (or offend).
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 03:24PM
According to Bob Murphy Nelson had impeccable taste. Whenever they were on a road trip they'd scout the fashion shops for the worst possible jackets, and Nelson would turn most of them away saying "not loud enough." I have no idea how the tradition started -- those things usually happen by accident -- but it was deliberate and first class trolling.nshapiro
I don't know. I think Lindsey Nelson just had genuinely bad taste. He wasn't dressing to impress (or offend).
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Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrk.east.verizon.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 06:04PM
You're not supposed to have cats declawed. What is the rule about people who post?Swampy
He makes a good case for tariffs.billhoward
The wardrobe was reason enough to move on.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 06:08PM
billhoward
What is the rule about people who post?
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Beeeej (Moderator)
Date: November 12, 2019 10:10PM
Cop at Lynah
Another victim of the cancel culture
To paraphrase Alex Winter, the term "Cancel Culture" is a bad faith fallacy. There's only Consequence Culture, and it's long overdue.
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Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: BearLover (---.nycmny.fios.verizon.net)
Date: November 12, 2019 10:53PM
Don Cherry is a moron.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: November 13, 2019 05:40AM
Well said.Beeeej
Cop at Lynah
Another victim of the cancel culture
To paraphrase Alex Winter, the term "Cancel Culture" is a bad faith fallacy. There's only Consequence Culture, and it's long overdue.
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Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: underskill (---.nycmny.fios.verizon.net)
Date: November 13, 2019 11:34AM
meh, Sportsnet has been trying to get rid of him for years; this just gave them an easy out.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: osorojo (---.res.spectrum.com)
Date: November 14, 2019 01:24PM
At least Canadians never supported Don Cherry and his sissy bulldog for Parliament or Prime Minister, like Americans supported his soulmate in the U.S.A.
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Dafatone (---.sub-174-219-4.myvzw.com)
Date: November 14, 2019 01:41PM
osorojo
At least Canadians never supported Don Cherry and his sissy bulldog for Parliament or Prime Minister, like Americans supported his soulmate in the U.S.A.
Strictly speaking, Rob and Doug Ford were/are only Ontario politicians rather than national Canadian politicians, but...
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: underskill (---.nycmny.fios.verizon.net)
Date: November 14, 2019 03:43PM
osorojo
At least Canadians never supported Don Cherry and his sissy bulldog for Parliament or Prime Minister, like Americans supported his soulmate in the U.S.A.
just a dude in blackface is all
Re: Don Cherry fired
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: November 14, 2019 04:13PM
Oh, like who hasn't done that?underskill
osorojo
At least Canadians never supported Don Cherry and his sissy bulldog for Parliament or Prime Minister, like Americans supported his soulmate in the U.S.A.
just a dude in blackface is all
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