Don Cherry fired

[billhoward]

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

[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.

[Cop at Lynah]

Another victim of the cancel culture

[Dafatone]

Good.

[billhoward]

The wardrobe was reason enough to move on.

[Dafatone]

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.

[upprdeck]

How many people are out of job now that he wont be buying all these wacky outfits?

[nshapiro]

All of those clothes are made in China, so they don't matter according to him.

[Swampy]

The wardrobe was reason enough to move on.

He makes a good case for tariffs.

[Trotsky]

He was an idiot.  I doubt he realized most people were laughing at him, not with him.

[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.

[Trotsky]

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.

They aren't even original.  They're all ripping off Lindsey Nelson (who actually was an excellent broadcaster).

As with Dump's inanities it's just a distraction from the lack of anything of substance.

[nshapiro]

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.

They aren't even original.  They're all ripping off Lindsey Nelson (who actually was an excellent broadcaster).

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).

[Trotsky]

I don't know.  I think Lindsey Nelson just had genuinely bad taste.  He wasn't dressing to impress (or offend).

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.

[billhoward]

The wardrobe was reason enough to move on.

He makes a good case for tariffs.

You're not supposed to have cats declawed. What is the rule about people who post?

[Trotsky]

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.