WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:08.839 It's night side with Dany. I'm deel you. 2 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:12.119 Two hours down, two hours to go to the end 3 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:17.000 of nights side, the beginning of Christmas and Hanukkah. And 4 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:19.079 like I said, there are those of you. You have 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:23.719 the radio on in the background and you're assembling some 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:28.359 toy for your child or children, and I tip my 7 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:32.600 hat to you. I remember those days. Believe me, I do. Now. 8 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.359 When I use the word legend, I know it's meaning 9 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:45.359 and I mean it throughout every letter of the word. 10 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:51.759 This next gentleman is a legend. He has worked in 11 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:58.000 the sports arena, Good Grief for over five decades. We 12 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:01.439 first saw him at the anchor desk for sports on 13 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:06.599 Channel four back in the seventies, and that's taken him 14 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:12.040 literally around the world. He has been everywhere. He has 15 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:19.760 covered Olympiads, tennis tournaments, yes here in the United States, 16 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:26.200 football games, basketball games, baseball, and hockey. And there is 17 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:31.120 nothing he hasn't achieved, and I do mean achieve in 18 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:35.680 the world of athletics. He I am proud to say, 19 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.319 is not only a friend, he is a good friend 20 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:45.159 of mine. Welcome to the radio, Jimmy Myers, Jimmy, Happy holidays, very. 21 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:49.200 All of the player Morgan and I also covered Botchyball. 22 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:54.120 Oh I didn't even say I didn't even say that one. 23 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:55.319 I should have thought of that one. 24 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:59.959 I'm covered Bosekeyball, Model Jacks, Double Dutch. 25 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:04.680 Oh my goodness, there you go. The double Dutch, Bess 26 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:09.599 is all. I'm sorry, Okay, I thought of this after 27 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:12.599 we had spoken. Yeah, and I'm not going to dwell 28 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:14.680 on it because we have enough things to do between 29 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:20.639 now and midnight. But this happened in either seventy one 30 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:26.360 or seventy two. The longest game in football history was 31 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:33.719 on Christmas that year between the Dolphins and Kansas City. 32 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:34.719 And the Kansas City Chiefs. 33 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.560 Yep, yep, tell me about that game. 34 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:44.080 Oh my gosh. This couple overtimes. But more importantly, they 35 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.120 just marched up and down the field. It was one 36 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:49.039 of those games where you felt that whoever had the 37 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:51.680 ball laugh was going to win. But it was a 38 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:53.199 remarkable game. 39 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:53.680 You know. 40 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:56.919 It's definitely remarkable game. And this was the beginning of 41 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:01.560 Miami's ascent to that that level where they would be 42 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.879 Super Bowl champions for the next couple of years, including 43 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.759 the seventeen to zero run that they made the perfect 44 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:10.639 season last one, first one and last one in the 45 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.400 history of the league. But that game itself there, let 46 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.840 me see, I believe Jan Stenerude was one of the 47 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:22.159 key players in that game. And wow, I mean he 48 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:28.120 they were just a guy named Potolac ed polacking the 49 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:29.960 running backs off the top of my head is what 50 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.719 I could think of. At Polax was doing everything, blocking, throwing, kicking, running. 51 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.199 He was key with something. But John stener would have 52 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:41.680 believe while I'm kicking the game time field goal and 53 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.000 I think the game winning field goal we were talking 54 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.159 about fifty three years ago. So I remember, I was 55 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.159 just in the business. I just started at BZ during 56 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:51.919 that time, believe it or not. In fact, September ninth, 57 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.400 nineteen seventy one, so it was after that game i'd 58 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:58.159 started b Z. But yeah, that was the beginning of 59 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.000 what's considered one of the great games of all time. 60 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:06.479 I mean, it was you at home, driving or in 61 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:10.199 your living room or whatever. You're using to hear this 62 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.919 show night side. Did you see what I did? Now? 63 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:19.399 Jimmy did not have any concept I was going to 64 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:23.360 bring that up. I brought up something that was fifty 65 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.879 three years ago in his mental history yet and still 66 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:32.680 he's rattling off names and circumstances as if it happened 67 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:33.720 last week. 68 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.439 Well, I knew he could do it. 69 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.360 It felt like it as first when you asked me, 70 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.519 I said, where are we going with this? Then my 71 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:47.040 brain kicks in that that that autopilot or that that 72 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:49.959 automatic video in my brain starts playing and I limit, 73 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.959 I remember, I remember this, I remember this, and I 74 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:53.519 remember this. 75 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:54.040 Yeah. 76 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.240 Yeah, it was a great game. I mean and at 77 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:02.199 that time, very few people know anything about overtime because 78 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:06.319 remember when in nineteen fifty eight when the Giants and 79 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:10.000 the Baltimore Colts played the first overtime games. That's the 80 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.120 game that basically made the NFL to your orderance. And 81 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.040 if you don't understand it, please go back, go online, 82 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.800 find the video. Johnny United became a household name in 83 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:23.959 that game. Game was played in Giants Stadium and the 84 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:27.959 United States team down the field. Another no that was 85 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:33.079 Tolly Connolly before Tittle oh okay, and Kyle Wrote and 86 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:36.079 Frank Giffert, those diag were in that game. But more 87 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.920 importantly Morgan it was it was the coming out of 88 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.279 Johnny United to Raymond Berry. They had a combination that 89 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:44.920 day that Giants just could not stop. So by the 90 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.959 time the game was tied and they were going into overtime, Morgan. 91 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.319 The players didn't know because they never played an overtime, 92 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:55.959 they didn't know that there was an overtime rule. They 93 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.439 didn't know it was an overtime rule. Wark the referees 94 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:03.959 had to check with the league to do you have 95 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:05.279 an overtime rule? Women? 96 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:08.720 You know there's the NFL championship game. You know it's 97 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.360 on television. You know there are millions of people out 98 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.319 there for Watche. We can't end up in a tie. 99 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:16.560 A tie? 100 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:17.360 Are you crazy? 101 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:19.959 No, no, no, calm down, Calm down. 102 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.040 Referees they went over and made a phone call to 103 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:24.199 the league office. 104 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.759 We've got it down, what to do, We've got it 105 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:28.399 written down. 106 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:30.360 Yeah. 107 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.920 Bert Bell, who is the father of Upton Bell from right, 108 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:36.199 Burt Bell was a commissioner from right. But they had 109 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.600 a rule in place, but nobody ever used it once. 110 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.560 So consequently something comes up and you say, gee, like 111 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.040 the baseball like in baseball, you know what it's about, 112 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:47.759 fourteen thousand rules in baseball, right, it's a rule to 113 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.079 coverage just about everything. But something will happen in a 114 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.759 baseball game that you've never seen before and you will 115 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:58.160 never probably see it again. But there's probably a rule 116 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.639 for every game. And that's why I probably loved baseball 117 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.399 more than any other sport because of the complexity of 118 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.240 the game. You know, a dot played on the diamond, 119 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:13.079 round ball, olong back, basically diamond run around a diamond. 120 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:17.439 So but the funny part was going back to that game, 121 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.600 no one knew anything. So when they finally figured it out, 122 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:23.680 I said, Okay, we're gonna play overtime. Okay, what does 123 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.759 that mean? Do we play overtime and keep playing till somebody? 124 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:31.560 We played till somebody scores, to which Johnny Uniteds took them, 125 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.480 took his team down the field, and I believe I'm 126 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:38.759 sure Alan and Mechi scored the game winning touchdown in 127 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.079 overtime when he when he dove across the goal line. 128 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:43.920 He ran across the goal line and just a goot, untouched. 129 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:45.959 But United had gotten them all the way down here. 130 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:50.720 Johnny Uniteds a reject player from the university I think Pittsburgh. 131 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:53.360 He came out of Pittsburgh, but Johnny United played in 132 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:56.759 Louis Though. Johnny Uniteds led them down the field and 133 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:03.160 became a household name that day, and football became what 134 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:06.800 we know it is today. No, Johnny United, is no 135 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.360 such game. Who knows where football would have gone. I'm 136 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.560 sure it would have got on, but not like that 137 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.120 because the whole nation didn't know Morgan White. No one 138 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:19.560 sitting in front of their televisions knew what. 139 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:19.639 Was going on. 140 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:23.360 They said, okay, live, what's this? Its side the old 141 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.079 where are we going out? Everybody? 142 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:36.919 People? People listening, and that the radio. 143 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.720 Morgan trying to imagine people listening on the radio saying, 144 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.279 what the hell is going on there the stadium? 145 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:44.919 But radio MutS to be broken. 146 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:46.200 I'm not hearing it. 147 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:47.720 No, no, no, they're calling the. 148 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.600 League office to figure out where do we go here? 149 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:54.080 To the night side audience, I hope you paid attention 150 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.720 to what you just witnessed, and we're going to be 151 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.519 doing more of that. Richie and Boston on the phone 152 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.919 line to get it to you. We've got another guest, 153 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.279 Jimmy is bringing along in about twenty minutes to join us. 154 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:11.279 We've got a lot planned for these next roughly hour 155 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:16.240 and forty four minutes of nightside time and temperature ten 156 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:19.840 sixteen thirty degrees. 157 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:24.360 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 158 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:27.600 Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. 159 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:31.159 Hi, I am Morgan Morgan White Junior, filling in for Dan. 160 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:37.399 I'll be here tomorrow, Christmas evening, Thursday, Friday, Saturday on 161 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.399 my show, and then I'll be here Monday and Tuesday 162 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:43.120 next week. So I've got a lot of time logged 163 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.320 in filling in for Dan Ray, who will be on 164 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:49.559 vacation until the first of January. Jimmy Myers is my guest, 165 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:52.679 and Jimmy, let's take a phone call. We got a 166 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.240 lot of things planned, so let me get the phones 167 00:09:55.240 --> 00:10:02.480 out the way. Richie, welcome your next Happy holidays, Richie. 168 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:10.000 I'll try one more time, Richie. You're next, Richie in Boston. Welcome. 169 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:19.759 Goodbye Richie. Well he's gone and there's another person next. 170 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:28.080 Excuse me, but I can't. Oh, okay, never mind. So Jimmy, 171 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:32.159 it's you and I again tease what's coming up. In 172 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.679 about fifteen to twenty minutes, I. 173 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:38.879 Will talk to Dennis Wilson, the head basketball coach at 174 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:43.840 Madison Park High School. Dennis is from a very very 175 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:47.600 distinguished family. His brother Harry. His late brother, Harry Wilson, 176 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:53.039 was the man who started Pop Warner Football in Roxbury 177 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:56.360 and built it into what it is throughout Boston today. 178 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:01.600 Harry is a legendary figure, Vietnam veteran, a brilliant, brilliant 179 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.039 guy who lost along with his wife a little while back. 180 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.600 And Dennis is his younger brother. Dennis had picked up 181 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:11.080 the mantle to a degree and more or less share 182 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.639 that time with Harry, because Dennis was right there when 183 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:18.399 Harry started the Roxbury Raiders they were called, So Dennis 184 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:20.879 was right there with Harry, and they built an organization 185 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:25.559 that wound up sending Massachusetts children to the Pop war 186 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:29.039 and Football super Bowls down in Florida, and nothing like 187 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:31.440 this had ever come to this area. So it was 188 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.840 an incredible, incredible moment for Roxbury. And Dennis has been 189 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.960 coaching at Madison Pockets I mentioned for over thirty years. 190 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.879 I think it's thirty seven now, and he has you know, 191 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.480 there's a floor named after him at the school, which 192 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.000 is an honor. They probably could probably even do more, 193 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:51.279 but Dennis. I've known Dennis for wild since he was 194 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:55.080 a very young man, and Dennis, Dennis was part of 195 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:58.559 the show that I did it on another station, six 196 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.919 o'clock in the morning on Saturday. Dennis became the out 197 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:06.519 there reporter and it was well, it was an experience. 198 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:11.600 Dennis would go around the community and I remember, this 199 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.000 is a big station and they didn't know anything that 200 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.200 much about Roxbury and Dorchester. So Dennis would go around 201 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.480 and find stories and we would break them on the 202 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:22.679 air and dieing forever. And then it to Dennis, because 203 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:25.200 Dennis wound up not only going from there, he wound 204 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:29.320 up starting his own cable television show. There is a 205 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.639 movie I'm trying to think of, the movie put out 206 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.679 a couple of years ago, a great movie about his 207 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:40.120 high school team. That this movie went national. So Dennis, 208 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:48.480 Dennis Moore has more than fulfilled any qualification, that capability 209 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:51.200 that anyone would want to talk about, because he's a 210 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:55.399 remarkable human being. And again he's still coaching. And I 211 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:57.279 asked him a couple of days ago, when I asked 212 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:59.320 him to come on the show. Dennis, that's a question, 213 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.679 why are you still doing this? He's simple as this, Jimmy, 214 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:06.679 I love to teach, he said, I love these young men, 215 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:09.919 but I love to teach the game. And then it's 216 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.360 just sent a lot of young men on in this 217 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:17.320 life to very very successful careers on and off the 218 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:20.519 basketball court. So it'd be somebody that I thought would 219 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:23.080 be very interesting for your show, Morgan, because so many 220 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:26.200 people in Boston know very little about what goes on 221 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:28.799 in the black community. I am blessed now to be 222 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:32.200 able to write for the Base State Banner newspaper on 223 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.360 a week to week basis, and it's online, so if 224 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:37.799 you go to Baystate Banner dot com you can read 225 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:42.120 the columns. But more importantly, the two owners, two new owners. 226 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:44.960 Noil Miller was he was a longtime owner of the paper, 227 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:50.200 but the two new owners, Ron Mitchell and Andre Stark, 228 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:55.639 they have really stepped in to build a paper on 229 00:13:55.720 --> 00:14:01.120 a concept of more than anything, of talking about vote issues, 230 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:05.480 particularly you know, young people in sports in the black community, 231 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.200 and that's what we're trying to do right now. But 232 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:12.120 you know, and I think of all the things that 233 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:14.480 have happened, even the things they had to write about 234 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:16.639 this week, we did the end of the year review, 235 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.000 and when I'm thinking about that end of the year review, 236 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:23.360 it's always long. I apologize at the beginning of every 237 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.320 every single one of these I know there may be 238 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:28.960 some issues or some people that I may leave out. 239 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:31.840 I apologize in advance for that, but we only have 240 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.440 enough space hit the paper to write the things that 241 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:37.639 we need to write. And we go back and we 242 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:39.840 look at the year, and I was thinking about the 243 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.399 people that we lost this year, you know, particularly me, 244 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.519 think of our local legends. Louis Tilla. Lose Louis, I mean, 245 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:56.039 he's gone. And I think of somebody Joe Fitzgerald, longtime 246 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.000 writer of the Boston Herald and one of the most 247 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:02.879 wonderful people that I've ever known in my life. I 248 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:05.960 spent a lot of time with Joe over the years, 249 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:09.639 and I miss him every day. And more importantly, you know, 250 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.519 I was able to spend some time with him before 251 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.240 his children more or less put him in a situation 252 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.759 whereas he was more or less put away to a 253 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:25.279 degree for his health reasons or whatever. Very painful situation. 254 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:28.960 But I did attend his funeral out of respect because 255 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.840 I knew Joe, his wife and his family. I watched 256 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:35.480 those kids grow up. But you know, young people make 257 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.519 decisions and they feel that they're right, and I felt 258 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:40.759 they were wrong. But it's not my business. It's a 259 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.840 family thing. So I ate that one. But more or 260 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:46.919 less I was there to tell Joe as he was 261 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:50.399 being put away. Joe, you were loved and for anybody 262 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:53.720 who ever read his column, you were blessed to read 263 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:56.000 Joe Fitzger because that guy. 264 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:56.679 A true work. 265 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.399 He knew how to put gosh could He writes right. 266 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.799 Words in the sentence and then the right sentences to follow. 267 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.399 Tell you what Richie is called back in. I don't 268 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.679 know what happened, but let's get him on before I 269 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.360 have to take a news hit. Richie, I hope you're 270 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:12.159 there this time. 271 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:15.799 Hi, thank you, Merry Christmas, and thanks for taking my call. 272 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:20.799 I'm Richie from Boston, no relation to Richie Powers. And 273 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.960 you talked about the greatest games. I was at the 274 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:27.440 triple overtime in seventy six, Game five at the Garden 275 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:32.480 triple overtime. Yeah, that was a great game. And the 276 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:37.120 thing that was interesting was it was and the interesting 277 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:41.200 thing was when Hamblechik had that off balance shot. Celtis 278 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:44.320 were leading and won the game. They were leaving the 279 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:47.879 court and Richie Powers said, there's two seconds left on 280 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.600 the clock and they had to come back out, and 281 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:54.039 some idiot came on the court and it started attacking 282 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:58.080 this pet referee Richie Powers, and a nice guy came 283 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:00.639 out there and try to help him, and it was 284 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.799 a very nice guy. Yeah, that's right guy. 285 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.960 Two or three guys grabbed Richie. And it was right 286 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.960 after gar heard hit a turnaround jump shot that sent 287 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.839 the game into the next overtime. Because Hamil Checker put 288 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:16.359 in my head they thought the game was over. Everybody 289 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.039 ran off the court. They came back on and then 290 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.960 you know, into between that time they attacked with the Powers, 291 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.039 which I you know, I was sitting underneath the basket. 292 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.440 I remembered, like it was yesterday. Tell me I just 293 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:31.119 ran on the floor. I just ran the floor and 294 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.200 dove in the middle of the pile, wound up getting 295 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.079 my knee blown in more or less swollen badly. I 296 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:39.599 thought I tore toward my knee. But the more the 297 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:43.440 most important thing with Richie Powers is safe. He would 298 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:45.960 later do a talk show with me and we talked 299 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:48.279 about that night. He said, I rolled over and I 300 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:52.880 looked up. It was Jimmy pulling me about the floor. 301 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:57.200 I said, yeah, well, I was dragging my leg at 302 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:00.359 the same time. But great man, great official Hall of 303 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:04.839 Fame official. But you know, the incidents like that they 304 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.319 should not happen, and unfortunately they did. But thank god 305 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.400 we were many people were there. The security was quick 306 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:13.640 enough to get there too, to pull those guys off 307 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:13.960 of them. 308 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:20.519 And Richie, next hour, Jimmy and I, Richie, hold on, 309 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:25.319 Jimmy and I are going to be talking about poor 310 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:30.519 behavior by fans both during the game and after a game. 311 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:32.559 That'll be in the eleven o'clock hour. 312 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.400 But but Richie, go ahead real quick because the Celtics. 313 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:39.759 But you were talking overtime football. Wasn't there a game 314 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:44.400 in fifty seven the Colts and the Giants at Yankee 315 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:48.759 Stadium that Yeah, I think. 316 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:49.839 That's the whole game. 317 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:54.799 Yeah, that was great, and no I remember that if 318 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:59.119 I'm right. Yeah, it was at fifty eight. That was 319 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:01.920 a great game. And I remember I was always watched that, 320 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:05.000 and you know, I was a Giants fan. But I 321 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:08.680 want to talk Celtics with you. I'm a little concerned 322 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:13.000 about the Celtics. They're my team, and I still remember 323 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:15.920 all those championship games. And I think we once talked 324 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:18.799 about Frank Selvy we missed that shot in sixty two. 325 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.440 But I was a little concerned because I'm a little 326 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.160 concerned about the Celtics per singis he seems like he's 327 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:31.359 having trouble on defense and rebounding. And I'm also you know, 328 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:35.079 some of the big guys like Xavier Tillman, he doesn't 329 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:38.079 seem to be playing much. Al Horford is getting older. 330 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:43.480 And also you know, you got big Al and I 331 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:47.079 you know, and then we got Holiday, who's thirty four. 332 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:49.720 Do you think the team might be in trouble as 333 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:50.680 far as ages. 334 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.440 I don't know if trouble is the word, Richie, but 335 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:56.359 they are getting older. That's the point to be made here. 336 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.359 And at al a thirty eight. You can't expect Ali 337 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:01.720 be playing four forty minutes a night. You just can't 338 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:04.359 expect that. But if for Zingi's is out, a'l has 339 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:07.160 to play longer minutes, yes, I'm concerned about that. When 340 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.359 I was just discussing this with a buddy of mine 341 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:13.240 who was a huge Celtic fan, like you, I was 342 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:15.799 trying to tell him, do you realize how hard it 343 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:17.839 is to repeat in this league? 344 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:18.799 You know? 345 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.920 I wanted I wanted to talk Yeah, well not only 346 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:24.799 that I wanted to talk about I wanted to talk 347 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:29.119 about the last team, the Golden State with Kevin Durant 348 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.400 that won back to back titles. That's seven years ago now, 349 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:34.839 and it's going to be tough for the Celtics to 350 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.000 pull this off. One. You got to have health, you 351 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.079 gotta have You got to be blessed with good health. 352 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:43.279 And I don't know if for Zinga's legs are strong enough. 353 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:46.640 I've talked about this before. He said, multiple ankle surgery, 354 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:50.559 has knee problems. He's not going to be able. If 355 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.880 he can play fifty five games fairly healthy, you should 356 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.039 be happy. That's seventeen he's going to possibly miss. And 357 00:20:57.039 --> 00:20:59.640 if he's coming back, trying to come back too fast, 358 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:02.519 going to just put more wear and tear on a 359 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:03.720 surgically repaired tankle. 360 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:08.519 So, Jimmy, I gotta I gotta stop you there, Richie. 361 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:09.319 You gotta take a break. 362 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.400 We listen, I listen. Thank you very much for taking 363 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:12.759 a call. 364 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:13.880 You're very welcome. 365 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.519 We'll have lunch sometime and take care. God bless you, 366 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:18.799 and Merry Christmas. 367 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.319 Merry Christmas to you too. Thank you, Richie. We're going 368 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:24.119 to take our break and when we come back, we'll 369 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:28.119 be joined by Dennis Wilson. Time and temperature here on 370 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:33.160 night side ten thirty one thirty degrees. 371 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:39.039 It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio. 372 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:43.359 I'm Morgan. I'm here until midnight. I'll be here until 373 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:49.119 December thirty first, including December thirty first, But that's too 374 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:52.799 far ahead. Let's talk about tonight. I've got Jimmy Myers here, 375 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:58.839 and through Jimmy, he has brought and a gentleman for 376 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:03.680 over three decades it has dedicated his life to impacting 377 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:11.000 youth through football and how to carry themselves as young men. 378 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:14.680 Mister Dennis Wilson, welcome tonight's side. 379 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:21.599 Welcome, welcome Apoli to you gentlemen and all your listeners. 380 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:25.400 Well, thank you, and tell me what it is. Jimmy 381 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.319 already told us, but I want to hear from your 382 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:31.160 mouth what it is to do and what drives you 383 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:31.759 to do it. 384 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:37.599 Well, I think I got a lot of it from 385 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:40.039 my mom. My mom was always wondered was about helping 386 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:44.039 people and caring about people. And I started back when 387 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:47.599 I was eighteen, so four decades that not to date myself, 388 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:51.079 you know, even though I was a spirit of young guy, 389 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:56.920 but just enjoy not teaching and developing and communicating and 390 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.839 inspiring young people, trying to make a positive impact in 391 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:02.400 it life and and just trying to do my share. 392 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.359 I've got a silly question because I've seen them both ways. 393 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:13.559 In both ways translate respect. Do your players call you 394 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:16.160 coach Wilson or coach? 395 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.000 They called me coach. I'm old school, so uh it's coach. 396 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:24.839 I'm sure they'd like to call me other things, but 397 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:33.079 they all. 398 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:31.000 Right now, Jimmy, do you have any questions? 399 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:34.880 No, Basically, you know, I've known this man for the 400 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:38.759 majority of his adult life. But uh, you know his brother. 401 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:41.839