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DaMuleRules Retired Number
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 1:44 pm Post subject: RIP Frank Deford |
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Legendary Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78
Definitely a legend. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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DeeAgeaux Star Player
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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In 1996 Frank predicted MLS would not last 20 years.
Not only did MLS do that it outlasted Frank.
RIP. |
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 3:16 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford |
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Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting. |
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford |
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ChickenStu wrote: |
Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting. |
I still get SI and they still have solid writing. I just finished a great article on Nick Buoniconti and head trauma. Deford was great, in the company of writers like Jim Murray, Alan Malamude and Bill Conlin. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023. |
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panamaniac Franchise Player
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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I remember seeing him alot on the NFL docs they ran during the 90s and early 2000s, definitely q unique personality. RIP |
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DaMuleRules Retired Number
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 7:28 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford |
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ChickenStu wrote: |
Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting. |
Deford was in rarified air. His passing is just a reminder of how far down the sewer sports journalism has gone. Writers like Deford and Jim Murray were about the story. Today writers want to be part of they story. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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RIP. Great storyteller and interviewer in a general sense and great in the context of sports, too. Not the overused version of "great". Enjoyed him for years on HBO Real Sports. He's good at his job, but it's much harder to like Bernard Goldberg knowing that he's an idiot Trumpster and a socially conservative fundamentalist. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL
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EDDIE DONX! |
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unleasHell Franchise Player
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry don't know the name, I guess his legend didn't make it to Orange County... _________________ “Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.” |
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 6:49 am Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford |
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DaMuleRules wrote: | ChickenStu wrote: |
Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting. |
Deford was in rarified air. His passing is just a reminder of how far down the sewer sports journalism has gone. Writers like Deford and Jim Murray were about the story. Today writers want to be part of they story. |
Rick Reilly has always inserted himself into the story too, and he's from the "old school". |
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gumby Star Player
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 8:01 am Post subject: |
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unleasHell wrote: | Sorry don't know the name, I guess his legend didn't make it to Orange County... |
You just haven't read enough or watched enough tv.
He's the last of a breed of old schoolers.
Very smart, very well esteemed.
He totally fit the look of an old school reporter/sportwriter.
Bye. _________________ "This trophy removes the most odious sentence in the English Language. It can never be said again that 'the Lakers have never beaten the Celtics.'" -Dr. Jerry Buss (1985) R.I.P., 33 x M.V.O. |
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gumby wrote: |
He totally fit the look of an old school reporter/sportwriter.
Bye. |
He had a kind of Bert Sugar/1940s vibe. Vaguely reminiscent to me of LeRoy Neiman, though he was an artist (but a fixture around different sports nonetheless). Gents from the OLD old school of sports who are all passing on now. I think he was probably influenced by the New Journalism writers like Hunter Thompson and George Plimpton. Dick Shaap was of that school of sports reporting (seeking truth over facts, immersion into topic, showing all perspectives involved in an issue). Bob Simon was of the school in news reportage. I don't see why Frank DeFord wasn't. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL
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non-player zealot Franchise Player
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford |
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DaMuleRules wrote: | ChickenStu wrote: |
Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting. |
Deford was in rarified air. His passing is just a reminder of how far down the sewer sports journalism has gone. Writers like Deford and Jim Murray were about the story. Today writers want to be part of they story. |
Thank God we have Stephen A. He never tries to be part of the story. I like his subtle, subdued style, too. I like how he subtly screams every word and threatens sports figures with lines like, "Do you really wanna do this?!..." _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL
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EDDIE DONX! |
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