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Originally Posted by curves2000
I grew up watching Ron and Don and still miss Coaches Corner, it was just different and now the segments are just not the same. Ron should have supported Don better but such is life, kinda sad in some ways.
Ron's folksy type stuff can get a little annoying and sometimes it's over the top for sure. I think what has happened to sports broadcasting is that there is a lack of real personalities on TV these days. Things are just really really corporate and buttoned down. I find some of his encyclopedia level knowledge unique.
He is in the final chapter of his career as full time host of HNIC, perhaps another broadcaster may have some unique use for him at some point too which could be nice.
Him and Don Cherry deserve to be in the Hall of Fame and it would be nice if they could go in together and bury the past.
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Don Cherry is like...your Grandpa.
He loves Canada, loves hockey and supports the Military and has hard views on a lot of things and you usually think:
"Yeah Gramps! You tell them!"
And then he says that very racist thing and starts going off on a tangent and...
"I swear....I dont know that guy!"
But hey, Peter got away with lying a few times when it really counted and they made him a Saint and the rock upon which their Church was built so...morality is malleable.
Nobody could have saved Cherry. Ron's actions were reprehensible but understandable. I get it. He didn't want to go down with the ship that Cherry shot a hole in. There are some that believe that how people treat you at your lowest point defines them, and thats fine.
Regardless of any of that however, his time is done. The game has passed him by and its beyond time he is put out to pasture. Let him keep doing Homeland Hockey or whatever and limit him to that.
But for your premiere product? You gotta move on from him and find someone else.
I'm no fancy 'Big City TV Producer' or nuthin' but I'd reboot Coach's Corner. Get Bruce Boudreau in there! My 'Crazy Mind' says to pair him with Daryl Sutter but thats just for the lulz, its not realistic. Maybe an ex-Ref? That could be fun to watch?
I mean, we learned this from Don Cherry...the 'Canadian Icon' thing is cringey and has a term limit and Ron's passed his a long, long time ago.