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Old 11-13-2021, 12:14 AM   #1448
curves2000
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I think what has happened with today's culture is a lack of practical and empathetic understanding of certain things. Yes what he said probably wasn't a good take, by his own admission years ago in books and movies, he always knew it would end with something like this.

A few quick notes for people who are saying he was past his prime and all that stuff. Coaches Corner was the highest rated TV program in Canada for a very very long time and could have been a top 3 in when he was fired. The ratings where sometimes usually higher than the game! People tuned into Coaches Corner to see him, not Ron.

It also happens to be that HNIC is the longest running tv program in TV history if memory serves me correct. The Don Cherry and Coaches Corner brand brought dollars and eyeballs and that mattered in business, despite what some people think.

Should he have been fired? I personally don't think so cause that is his thing, that is what makes Don Cherry, Cherry. The other people who are on TV covering HNIC and sports in general are usually quite boring, at least Cherry was entertaining. I don't think there is anything wrong with an employer firing someone and than paying out their contract which is what Rogers did. It's not like he was an employee who had a "DO NOT FIRE" sticker on his file.

In the end, I would agree he probably didn't have much time left on tv and Covid would have probably done a number on that in some ways. His podcast numbers are good though.

What I really really would have wanted though was for everybody to take a collective break, relax, chill out and think rationally and practically. Perhaps a suspension, an apology and than a goodbye piece to end a career. This notion that we have to railroad an 85 year old man into oblivion for comments is a little disheartening thing for me. Cherry has done a mountain of really really honorable things in his career and the way he treated children, young players, would love and support the women's sports, Canada and our veterans was very honorable. Our own government, no matter who your political stripe was, did a terrible thing and still to this day does with the treatment of Canadians in uniform. Is anybody calling for their heads? Process that last little bit. How many government types have done an unjust harm to the people who have sacrificed all for us, and Don Cherry was the bad guy?

I think the people who say that they have friends and family of the same age with the same views need to process something, the notion that we, the younger generation won't be in the same boat at some stage in our lives with our views? Why do we get so over confident in that regard? Are we really suppose to believe that we are the greatest generation of people because we fake outrage and get worked up on a computer and social media? Seem's strange to me.

I miss the guy but his runway was short regardless. It' just sad that is how his career ended for the viewers and for others.
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