Speaker 1: It's night side with Dany. I'm deel you.
Speaker 2: Two hours down, two hours to go to the end
Speaker 2: of nights side, the beginning of Christmas and Hanukkah. And
Speaker 2: like I said, there are those of you. You have
Speaker 2: the radio on in the background and you're assembling some
Speaker 2: toy for your child or children, and I tip my
Speaker 2: hat to you. I remember those days. Believe me, I do. Now.
Speaker 2: When I use the word legend, I know it's meaning
Speaker 2: and I mean it throughout every letter of the word.
Speaker 2: This next gentleman is a legend. He has worked in
Speaker 2: the sports arena, Good Grief for over five decades. We
Speaker 2: first saw him at the anchor desk for sports on
Speaker 2: Channel four back in the seventies, and that's taken him
Speaker 2: literally around the world. He has been everywhere. He has
Speaker 2: covered Olympiads, tennis tournaments, yes here in the United States,
Speaker 2: football games, basketball games, baseball, and hockey. And there is
Speaker 2: nothing he hasn't achieved, and I do mean achieve in
Speaker 2: the world of athletics. He I am proud to say,
Speaker 2: is not only a friend, he is a good friend
Speaker 2: of mine. Welcome to the radio, Jimmy Myers, Jimmy, Happy holidays, very.
Speaker 3: All of the player Morgan and I also covered Botchyball.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't even say I didn't even say that one.
Speaker 2: I should have thought of that one.
Speaker 3: I'm covered Bosekeyball, Model Jacks, Double Dutch.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, there you go. The double Dutch, Bess
Speaker 2: is all. I'm sorry, Okay, I thought of this after
Speaker 2: we had spoken. Yeah, and I'm not going to dwell
Speaker 2: on it because we have enough things to do between
Speaker 2: now and midnight. But this happened in either seventy one
Speaker 2: or seventy two. The longest game in football history was
Speaker 2: on Christmas that year between the Dolphins and Kansas City.
Speaker 3: And the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, tell me about that game.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. This couple overtimes. But more importantly, they
Speaker 3: just marched up and down the field. It was one
Speaker 3: of those games where you felt that whoever had the
Speaker 3: ball laugh was going to win. But it was a
Speaker 3: remarkable game.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It's definitely remarkable game. And this was the beginning of
Speaker 3: Miami's ascent to that that level where they would be
Speaker 3: Super Bowl champions for the next couple of years, including
Speaker 3: the seventeen to zero run that they made the perfect
Speaker 3: season last one, first one and last one in the
Speaker 3: history of the league. But that game itself there, let
Speaker 3: me see, I believe Jan Stenerude was one of the
Speaker 3: key players in that game. And wow, I mean he
Speaker 3: they were just a guy named Potolac ed polacking the
Speaker 3: running backs off the top of my head is what
Speaker 3: I could think of. At Polax was doing everything, blocking, throwing, kicking, running.
Speaker 3: He was key with something. But John stener would have
Speaker 3: believe while I'm kicking the game time field goal and
Speaker 3: I think the game winning field goal we were talking
Speaker 3: about fifty three years ago. So I remember, I was
Speaker 3: just in the business. I just started at BZ during
Speaker 3: that time, believe it or not. In fact, September ninth,
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy one, so it was after that game i'd
Speaker 3: started b Z. But yeah, that was the beginning of
Speaker 3: what's considered one of the great games of all time.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was you at home, driving or in
Speaker 2: your living room or whatever. You're using to hear this
Speaker 2: show night side. Did you see what I did? Now?
Speaker 2: Jimmy did not have any concept I was going to
Speaker 2: bring that up. I brought up something that was fifty
Speaker 2: three years ago in his mental history yet and still
Speaker 2: he's rattling off names and circumstances as if it happened
Speaker 2: last week.
Speaker 5: Well, I knew he could do it.
Speaker 3: It felt like it as first when you asked me,
Speaker 3: I said, where are we going with this? Then my
Speaker 3: brain kicks in that that that autopilot or that that
Speaker 3: automatic video in my brain starts playing and I limit,
Speaker 3: I remember, I remember this, I remember this, and I
Speaker 3: remember this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a great game. I mean and at
Speaker 3: that time, very few people know anything about overtime because
Speaker 3: remember when in nineteen fifty eight when the Giants and
Speaker 3: the Baltimore Colts played the first overtime games. That's the
Speaker 3: game that basically made the NFL to your orderance. And
Speaker 3: if you don't understand it, please go back, go online,
Speaker 3: find the video. Johnny United became a household name in
Speaker 3: that game. Game was played in Giants Stadium and the
Speaker 3: United States team down the field. Another no that was
Speaker 3: Tolly Connolly before Tittle oh okay, and Kyle Wrote and
Speaker 3: Frank Giffert, those diag were in that game. But more
Speaker 3: importantly Morgan it was it was the coming out of
Speaker 3: Johnny United to Raymond Berry. They had a combination that
Speaker 3: day that Giants just could not stop. So by the
Speaker 3: time the game was tied and they were going into overtime, Morgan.
Speaker 3: The players didn't know because they never played an overtime,
Speaker 3: they didn't know that there was an overtime rule. They
Speaker 3: didn't know it was an overtime rule. Wark the referees
Speaker 3: had to check with the league to do you have
Speaker 3: an overtime rule? Women?
Speaker 6: You know there's the NFL championship game. You know it's
Speaker 6: on television. You know there are millions of people out
Speaker 6: there for Watche. We can't end up in a tie.
Speaker 3: A tie?
Speaker 7: Are you crazy?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, calm down, Calm down.
Speaker 6: Referees they went over and made a phone call to
Speaker 6: the league office.
Speaker 2: We've got it down, what to do, We've got it
Speaker 2: written down.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Bert Bell, who is the father of Upton Bell from right,
Speaker 3: Burt Bell was a commissioner from right. But they had
Speaker 3: a rule in place, but nobody ever used it once.
Speaker 3: So consequently something comes up and you say, gee, like
Speaker 3: the baseball like in baseball, you know what it's about,
Speaker 3: fourteen thousand rules in baseball, right, it's a rule to
Speaker 3: coverage just about everything. But something will happen in a
Speaker 3: baseball game that you've never seen before and you will
Speaker 3: never probably see it again. But there's probably a rule
Speaker 3: for every game. And that's why I probably loved baseball
Speaker 3: more than any other sport because of the complexity of
Speaker 3: the game. You know, a dot played on the diamond,
Speaker 3: round ball, olong back, basically diamond run around a diamond.
Speaker 3: So but the funny part was going back to that game,
Speaker 3: no one knew anything. So when they finally figured it out,
Speaker 3: I said, Okay, we're gonna play overtime. Okay, what does
Speaker 3: that mean? Do we play overtime and keep playing till somebody?
Speaker 3: We played till somebody scores, to which Johnny Uniteds took them,
Speaker 3: took his team down the field, and I believe I'm
Speaker 3: sure Alan and Mechi scored the game winning touchdown in
Speaker 3: overtime when he when he dove across the goal line.
Speaker 3: He ran across the goal line and just a goot, untouched.
Speaker 3: But United had gotten them all the way down here.
Speaker 3: Johnny Uniteds a reject player from the university I think Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: He came out of Pittsburgh, but Johnny United played in
Speaker 3: Louis Though. Johnny Uniteds led them down the field and
Speaker 3: became a household name that day, and football became what
Speaker 3: we know it is today. No, Johnny United, is no
Speaker 3: such game. Who knows where football would have gone. I'm
Speaker 3: sure it would have got on, but not like that
Speaker 3: because the whole nation didn't know Morgan White. No one
Speaker 3: sitting in front of their televisions knew what.
Speaker 5: Was going on.
Speaker 3: They said, okay, live, what's this? Its side the old
Speaker 3: where are we going out? Everybody?
Speaker 2: People? People listening, and that the radio.
Speaker 3: Morgan trying to imagine people listening on the radio saying,
Speaker 3: what the hell is going on there the stadium?
Speaker 6: But radio MutS to be broken.
Speaker 7: I'm not hearing it.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, they're calling the.
Speaker 3: League office to figure out where do we go here?
Speaker 2: To the night side audience, I hope you paid attention
Speaker 2: to what you just witnessed, and we're going to be
Speaker 2: doing more of that. Richie and Boston on the phone
Speaker 2: line to get it to you. We've got another guest,
Speaker 2: Jimmy is bringing along in about twenty minutes to join us.
Speaker 2: We've got a lot planned for these next roughly hour
Speaker 2: and forty four minutes of nightside time and temperature ten
Speaker 2: sixteen thirty degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Hi, I am Morgan Morgan White Junior, filling in for Dan.
Speaker 2: I'll be here tomorrow, Christmas evening, Thursday, Friday, Saturday on
Speaker 2: my show, and then I'll be here Monday and Tuesday
Speaker 2: next week. So I've got a lot of time logged
Speaker 2: in filling in for Dan Ray, who will be on
Speaker 2: vacation until the first of January. Jimmy Myers is my guest,
Speaker 2: and Jimmy, let's take a phone call. We got a
Speaker 2: lot of things planned, so let me get the phones
Speaker 2: out the way. Richie, welcome your next Happy holidays, Richie.
Speaker 2: I'll try one more time, Richie. You're next, Richie in Boston. Welcome.
Speaker 2: Goodbye Richie. Well he's gone and there's another person next.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, but I can't. Oh, okay, never mind. So Jimmy,
Speaker 2: it's you and I again tease what's coming up. In
Speaker 2: about fifteen to twenty minutes, I.
Speaker 3: Will talk to Dennis Wilson, the head basketball coach at
Speaker 3: Madison Park High School. Dennis is from a very very
Speaker 3: distinguished family. His brother Harry. His late brother, Harry Wilson,
Speaker 3: was the man who started Pop Warner Football in Roxbury
Speaker 3: and built it into what it is throughout Boston today.
Speaker 3: Harry is a legendary figure, Vietnam veteran, a brilliant, brilliant
Speaker 3: guy who lost along with his wife a little while back.
Speaker 3: And Dennis is his younger brother. Dennis had picked up
Speaker 3: the mantle to a degree and more or less share
Speaker 3: that time with Harry, because Dennis was right there when
Speaker 3: Harry started the Roxbury Raiders they were called, So Dennis
Speaker 3: was right there with Harry, and they built an organization
Speaker 3: that wound up sending Massachusetts children to the Pop war
Speaker 3: and Football super Bowls down in Florida, and nothing like
Speaker 3: this had ever come to this area. So it was
Speaker 3: an incredible, incredible moment for Roxbury. And Dennis has been
Speaker 3: coaching at Madison Pockets I mentioned for over thirty years.
Speaker 3: I think it's thirty seven now, and he has you know,
Speaker 3: there's a floor named after him at the school, which
Speaker 3: is an honor. They probably could probably even do more,
Speaker 3: but Dennis. I've known Dennis for wild since he was
Speaker 3: a very young man, and Dennis, Dennis was part of
Speaker 3: the show that I did it on another station, six
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning on Saturday. Dennis became the out
Speaker 3: there reporter and it was well, it was an experience.
Speaker 3: Dennis would go around the community and I remember, this
Speaker 3: is a big station and they didn't know anything that
Speaker 3: much about Roxbury and Dorchester. So Dennis would go around
Speaker 3: and find stories and we would break them on the
Speaker 3: air and dieing forever. And then it to Dennis, because
Speaker 3: Dennis wound up not only going from there, he wound
Speaker 3: up starting his own cable television show. There is a
Speaker 3: movie I'm trying to think of, the movie put out
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, a great movie about his
Speaker 3: high school team. That this movie went national. So Dennis,
Speaker 3: Dennis Moore has more than fulfilled any qualification, that capability
Speaker 3: that anyone would want to talk about, because he's a
Speaker 3: remarkable human being. And again he's still coaching. And I
Speaker 3: asked him a couple of days ago, when I asked
Speaker 3: him to come on the show. Dennis, that's a question,
Speaker 3: why are you still doing this? He's simple as this, Jimmy,
Speaker 3: I love to teach, he said, I love these young men,
Speaker 3: but I love to teach the game. And then it's
Speaker 3: just sent a lot of young men on in this
Speaker 3: life to very very successful careers on and off the
Speaker 3: basketball court. So it'd be somebody that I thought would
Speaker 3: be very interesting for your show, Morgan, because so many
Speaker 3: people in Boston know very little about what goes on
Speaker 3: in the black community. I am blessed now to be
Speaker 3: able to write for the Base State Banner newspaper on
Speaker 3: a week to week basis, and it's online, so if
Speaker 3: you go to Baystate Banner dot com you can read
Speaker 3: the columns. But more importantly, the two owners, two new owners.
Speaker 3: Noil Miller was he was a longtime owner of the paper,
Speaker 3: but the two new owners, Ron Mitchell and Andre Stark,
Speaker 3: they have really stepped in to build a paper on
Speaker 3: a concept of more than anything, of talking about vote issues,
Speaker 3: particularly you know, young people in sports in the black community,
Speaker 3: and that's what we're trying to do right now. But
Speaker 3: you know, and I think of all the things that
Speaker 3: have happened, even the things they had to write about
Speaker 3: this week, we did the end of the year review,
Speaker 3: and when I'm thinking about that end of the year review,
Speaker 3: it's always long. I apologize at the beginning of every
Speaker 3: every single one of these I know there may be
Speaker 3: some issues or some people that I may leave out.
Speaker 3: I apologize in advance for that, but we only have
Speaker 3: enough space hit the paper to write the things that
Speaker 3: we need to write. And we go back and we
Speaker 3: look at the year, and I was thinking about the
Speaker 3: people that we lost this year, you know, particularly me,
Speaker 3: think of our local legends. Louis Tilla. Lose Louis, I mean,
Speaker 3: he's gone. And I think of somebody Joe Fitzgerald, longtime
Speaker 3: writer of the Boston Herald and one of the most
Speaker 3: wonderful people that I've ever known in my life. I
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time with Joe over the years,
Speaker 3: and I miss him every day. And more importantly, you know,
Speaker 3: I was able to spend some time with him before
Speaker 3: his children more or less put him in a situation
Speaker 3: whereas he was more or less put away to a
Speaker 3: degree for his health reasons or whatever. Very painful situation.
Speaker 3: But I did attend his funeral out of respect because
Speaker 3: I knew Joe, his wife and his family. I watched
Speaker 3: those kids grow up. But you know, young people make
Speaker 3: decisions and they feel that they're right, and I felt
Speaker 3: they were wrong. But it's not my business. It's a
Speaker 3: family thing. So I ate that one. But more or
Speaker 3: less I was there to tell Joe as he was
Speaker 3: being put away. Joe, you were loved and for anybody
Speaker 3: who ever read his column, you were blessed to read
Speaker 3: Joe Fitzger because that guy.
Speaker 2: A true work.
Speaker 5: He knew how to put gosh could He writes right.
Speaker 2: Words in the sentence and then the right sentences to follow.
Speaker 2: Tell you what Richie is called back in. I don't
Speaker 2: know what happened, but let's get him on before I
Speaker 2: have to take a news hit. Richie, I hope you're
Speaker 2: there this time.
Speaker 4: Hi, thank you, Merry Christmas, and thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4: I'm Richie from Boston, no relation to Richie Powers. And
Speaker 4: you talked about the greatest games. I was at the
Speaker 4: triple overtime in seventy six, Game five at the Garden
Speaker 4: triple overtime. Yeah, that was a great game. And the
Speaker 4: thing that was interesting was it was and the interesting
Speaker 4: thing was when Hamblechik had that off balance shot. Celtis
Speaker 4: were leading and won the game. They were leaving the
Speaker 4: court and Richie Powers said, there's two seconds left on
Speaker 4: the clock and they had to come back out, and
Speaker 4: some idiot came on the court and it started attacking
Speaker 4: this pet referee Richie Powers, and a nice guy came
Speaker 4: out there and try to help him, and it was
Speaker 4: a very nice guy. Yeah, that's right guy.
Speaker 3: Two or three guys grabbed Richie. And it was right
Speaker 3: after gar heard hit a turnaround jump shot that sent
Speaker 3: the game into the next overtime. Because Hamil Checker put
Speaker 3: in my head they thought the game was over. Everybody
Speaker 3: ran off the court. They came back on and then
Speaker 3: you know, into between that time they attacked with the Powers,
Speaker 3: which I you know, I was sitting underneath the basket.
Speaker 3: I remembered, like it was yesterday. Tell me I just
Speaker 3: ran on the floor. I just ran the floor and
Speaker 3: dove in the middle of the pile, wound up getting
Speaker 3: my knee blown in more or less swollen badly. I
Speaker 3: thought I tore toward my knee. But the more the
Speaker 3: most important thing with Richie Powers is safe. He would
Speaker 3: later do a talk show with me and we talked
Speaker 3: about that night. He said, I rolled over and I
Speaker 3: looked up. It was Jimmy pulling me about the floor.
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, well, I was dragging my leg at
Speaker 3: the same time. But great man, great official Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame official. But you know, the incidents like that they
Speaker 3: should not happen, and unfortunately they did. But thank god
Speaker 3: we were many people were there. The security was quick
Speaker 3: enough to get there too, to pull those guys off
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 2: And Richie, next hour, Jimmy and I, Richie, hold on,
Speaker 2: Jimmy and I are going to be talking about poor
Speaker 2: behavior by fans both during the game and after a game.
Speaker 2: That'll be in the eleven o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: But but Richie, go ahead real quick because the Celtics.
Speaker 4: But you were talking overtime football. Wasn't there a game
Speaker 4: in fifty seven the Colts and the Giants at Yankee
Speaker 4: Stadium that Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: That's the whole game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was great, and no I remember that if
Speaker 4: I'm right. Yeah, it was at fifty eight. That was
Speaker 4: a great game. And I remember I was always watched that,
Speaker 4: and you know, I was a Giants fan. But I
Speaker 4: want to talk Celtics with you. I'm a little concerned
Speaker 4: about the Celtics. They're my team, and I still remember
Speaker 4: all those championship games. And I think we once talked
Speaker 4: about Frank Selvy we missed that shot in sixty two.
Speaker 4: But I was a little concerned because I'm a little
Speaker 4: concerned about the Celtics per singis he seems like he's
Speaker 4: having trouble on defense and rebounding. And I'm also you know,
Speaker 4: some of the big guys like Xavier Tillman, he doesn't
Speaker 4: seem to be playing much. Al Horford is getting older.
Speaker 4: And also you know, you got big Al and I
Speaker 4: you know, and then we got Holiday, who's thirty four.
Speaker 4: Do you think the team might be in trouble as
Speaker 4: far as ages.
Speaker 3: I don't know if trouble is the word, Richie, but
Speaker 3: they are getting older. That's the point to be made here.
Speaker 3: And at al a thirty eight. You can't expect Ali
Speaker 3: be playing four forty minutes a night. You just can't
Speaker 3: expect that. But if for Zingi's is out, a'l has
Speaker 3: to play longer minutes, yes, I'm concerned about that. When
Speaker 3: I was just discussing this with a buddy of mine
Speaker 3: who was a huge Celtic fan, like you, I was
Speaker 3: trying to tell him, do you realize how hard it
Speaker 3: is to repeat in this league?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: I wanted I wanted to talk Yeah, well not only
Speaker 3: that I wanted to talk about I wanted to talk
Speaker 3: about the last team, the Golden State with Kevin Durant
Speaker 3: that won back to back titles. That's seven years ago now,
Speaker 3: and it's going to be tough for the Celtics to
Speaker 3: pull this off. One. You got to have health, you
Speaker 3: gotta have You got to be blessed with good health.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if for Zinga's legs are strong enough.
Speaker 3: I've talked about this before. He said, multiple ankle surgery,
Speaker 3: has knee problems. He's not going to be able. If
Speaker 3: he can play fifty five games fairly healthy, you should
Speaker 3: be happy. That's seventeen he's going to possibly miss. And
Speaker 3: if he's coming back, trying to come back too fast,
Speaker 3: going to just put more wear and tear on a
Speaker 3: surgically repaired tankle.
Speaker 2: So, Jimmy, I gotta I gotta stop you there, Richie.
Speaker 2: You gotta take a break.
Speaker 4: We listen, I listen. Thank you very much for taking
Speaker 4: a call.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome.
Speaker 4: We'll have lunch sometime and take care. God bless you,
Speaker 4: and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you too. Thank you, Richie. We're going
Speaker 2: to take our break and when we come back, we'll
Speaker 2: be joined by Dennis Wilson. Time and temperature here on
Speaker 2: night side ten thirty one thirty degrees.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: I'm Morgan. I'm here until midnight. I'll be here until
Speaker 2: December thirty first, including December thirty first, But that's too
Speaker 2: far ahead. Let's talk about tonight. I've got Jimmy Myers here,
Speaker 2: and through Jimmy, he has brought and a gentleman for
Speaker 2: over three decades it has dedicated his life to impacting
Speaker 2: youth through football and how to carry themselves as young men.
Speaker 2: Mister Dennis Wilson, welcome tonight's side.
Speaker 5: Welcome, welcome Apoli to you gentlemen and all your listeners.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, and tell me what it is. Jimmy
Speaker 2: already told us, but I want to hear from your
Speaker 2: mouth what it is to do and what drives you
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 5: Well, I think I got a lot of it from
Speaker 5: my mom. My mom was always wondered was about helping
Speaker 5: people and caring about people. And I started back when
Speaker 5: I was eighteen, so four decades that not to date myself,
Speaker 5: you know, even though I was a spirit of young guy,
Speaker 5: but just enjoy not teaching and developing and communicating and
Speaker 5: inspiring young people, trying to make a positive impact in
Speaker 5: it life and and just trying to do my share.
Speaker 2: I've got a silly question because I've seen them both ways.
Speaker 2: In both ways translate respect. Do your players call you
Speaker 2: coach Wilson or coach?
Speaker 5: They called me coach. I'm old school, so uh it's coach.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they'd like to call me other things, but
Speaker 5: they all.
Speaker 2: Right now, Jimmy, do you have any questions?
Speaker 3: No, Basically, you know, I've known this man for the
Speaker 3: majority of his adult life. But uh, you know his brother.
Speaker 3: He and his brother I had mentioned talked about the
Speaker 3: Pop Warner program. But then it's also worked with young
Speaker 3: women too. Then it is that not just young guys.
Speaker 3: Dennis has done a lot for the use of Boston.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about teaching him basketball, teaching him other sports
Speaker 3: sports other than football. But when I asked him, as
Speaker 3: I mentioned when I talked to that a couple of
Speaker 3: days ago, I had mentioned asked him why why does
Speaker 3: he do it? Because, like you said, I still love
Speaker 3: to teach. And part of that teaching factor is the
Speaker 3: communication that you have to have with young people today.
Speaker 3: You speak a different language than we spoke when we
Speaker 3: were growing up, and I think Dennis should address that,
Speaker 3: as he talked to when you talk about how do
Speaker 3: he reaches these young people today, because that was one
Speaker 3: of the things we talked about, Dennis.
Speaker 5: Sure, nowadays you're so right, Jimmy. You now have the
Speaker 5: social media. So all these negative traps and these negative
Speaker 5: forces just really tearing at these kids. And I feel
Speaker 5: sorry for them, you know, some of them being raised
Speaker 5: in dystrunction families without a male role model, you know,
Speaker 5: to give me that stuff love. There's so many of
Speaker 5: them need. But you got to all these as I mentioned,
Speaker 5: social media, tiktoks and you know, the challenges and YouTube
Speaker 5: and all this. You know it, you know it, she knows.
Speaker 5: We back in the day from a sports perspective, we
Speaker 5: watched a game, a whole game, and really critique the
Speaker 5: different players and the styles and all the different nuances
Speaker 5: of the game. Nowadays, they're just looking at clips of
Speaker 5: highlights of guys dunker and breaking ankles, as they say,
Speaker 5: you know, and seeing all that craziness. That's just negativity,
Speaker 5: just dividing our country and just making these young folks
Speaker 5: just make bad decisions in their lives through that garbage
Speaker 5: that they see. So it's just a sad state of affairs.
Speaker 5: But things, like you said to me have changed drastically.
Speaker 5: So you just try to just try to have them
Speaker 5: sort out right from wrong and making positive decisions in
Speaker 5: life that are going to help you know, them go
Speaker 5: on the right channels in the right direction and hopefully
Speaker 5: not you know, fall into those traps as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 5: that are out there.
Speaker 2: What in newball? What NFL players are the favorites of
Speaker 2: your kids? They've got posters of this man on the
Speaker 2: back of their closet door. Who are as best you
Speaker 2: can guesstimate, who are their favorites?
Speaker 5: Well, of course, you know, I'm sure they probably got
Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson, you know, and yeah, and Patrick Mahomes but
Speaker 5: they better get him to that boy Jaalen Hunter, Okay,
Speaker 5: he's amazing.
Speaker 3: Daniels and Washington, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5: Jade and Daniels. I'm sorry, j Daniels, Yeah, he is special.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness. So you know you got guys like that,
Speaker 5: you know, uh, that the local kid that they were
Speaker 5: that VC favous, they favorus and and uh, but I
Speaker 5: would say right now, you know kids love that, say
Speaker 5: Kwon Barckley again, Uh, great exciting runner backs great receivers
Speaker 5: justin Jefferson, uh, you know, with the electric fying catches.
Speaker 5: But I would say that the white the quarterbacks, the
Speaker 5: receivers and the running backs.
Speaker 2: Do you think is gonna break Eric Dickerson's record. He's
Speaker 2: only get two weeks left. You know.
Speaker 3: He means the question of go ahead, take down done
Speaker 3: for you?
Speaker 5: Okay, you know, I think he's gonna run the time. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: when you have two great players, you know that you're
Speaker 5: trying to share you know, the ball with and uh
Speaker 5: and it seems like the big baby Brown he you know,
Speaker 5: so upset with not getting the ball, and that takes
Speaker 5: away from sa Quon and so now instead of you
Speaker 5: post speed and ta Kuan whish you should. I mean
Speaker 5: he's special. Oh my goodness, you know you and I
Speaker 5: remember the great Barry and and and sweetness find moves.
Speaker 3: But this guy, he is not in their category. Believe
Speaker 3: he is no Baron Sanders. But I will say he
Speaker 3: can go into that area because that area is a
Speaker 3: very very select area, Dennis. Basically basketball. When you talk
Speaker 3: to your young people today, who the people they look
Speaker 3: at that I know John Moran is one of them. Please,
Speaker 3: he really needs a mental adjustment. But besides him, who
Speaker 3: is just some of the other players they like. I'm
Speaker 3: hoping Jay Gilders Alexander's one of them.
Speaker 5: But well, he now has become one of my favorite players,
Speaker 5: and I really push got him as far as just
Speaker 5: silent Assassin Jimmy. You knows, he just kills you in
Speaker 5: so many ways and just reminds me of one of
Speaker 5: my former players, Lloyd Industries. You remember Lloyd Automatic Industrious.
Speaker 5: He just kills you with his jump shot, his moves, selected,
Speaker 5: you know, his athleticism. Garon Fox is one that they
Speaker 5: like a great deal. Of course, everybody loves a I
Speaker 5: A U. Anthony Edwards. Uh, He's he's just you know, uh,
Speaker 5: women Yama is taking over. You know that that league
Speaker 5: by Storm. You know, somebody that tall, that athletic, to
Speaker 5: be able to do what he does is amazing. So
Speaker 5: you know, like you said, you you you stare them
Speaker 5: away from the cud gifted the ability to be doing
Speaker 5: dumb the dumb things and making some a bad decisions
Speaker 5: that he's made. And then you stay on to guys,
Speaker 5: you know, our guys, you know the Jaden Jason Datums,
Speaker 5: Jalen Brown's you know, and like I said, Jake Gilders,
Speaker 5: you know, these guys, they're they're doing the right things
Speaker 5: that they're involved in the community. They're setting good examples,
Speaker 5: you know, for for these young guys. It's not easy, man,
Speaker 5: all that money and all this endorsements. Now you know that,
Speaker 5: you know, of course, and I and I l and
Speaker 5: I mean it's it's man, you and I. Jimmy played
Speaker 5: at the wrong time. Jim we played at the wrong time.
Speaker 3: Then us keep this go to home. Tell me about
Speaker 3: the upcoming basketball tournament that's so important now that you
Speaker 3: brought it back to Madison.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm doing the Madison Baccer Holiday Classic, and I'm
Speaker 5: bringing up some real talented teams with some talented young
Speaker 5: men on it. It'll be the twenty seven twenty eight.
Speaker 5: This is Friday and Saturday. First game at four, a
Speaker 5: second game at six. So I got fitted local team
Speaker 5: Latin Academy that gots Jay and this claim that jumps
Speaker 5: out to gym six six ' four leaper. They're going
Speaker 5: against Whiston Tech, who Jimmy knocked them out at Latin
Speaker 5: Academy last year in the States. So Danny Bunker, great
Speaker 5: coach Danny Bunker, he asked, could I make that happen.
Speaker 5: I made it happen. So they're tipping off on Friday
Speaker 5: four o'clock and then we got a real tough opponent,
Speaker 5: Mount Pleasant High School, some rough and tough talented kids
Speaker 5: from province Rhode Island. So Charlie Holiday talented. Charlie you
Speaker 5: may him back in the day. He's coming up with
Speaker 5: his rutus that that's gonna be, you know, tough to
Speaker 5: handle for our guys. But hey, we're gonna come to play,
Speaker 5: and then it'll be at the Matter Dome Saturday will
Speaker 5: be the consolation game at four for the two losers
Speaker 5: and then the winners championship game at six and a wardsone.
Speaker 5: How did you get it back, Dennis, after all this
Speaker 5: time that it was gone. Well, you know, it's something
Speaker 5: that I had always always thought about. I went to
Speaker 5: Wister's Christmas Classic last year Christmas tournament and lost in
Speaker 5: the championship to Wilster. So I said, hey, rather than
Speaker 5: travel and in Boston, Jimmy, I mean, we need more
Speaker 5: things for our community, for our youth and for our city.
Speaker 5: And you know, we got so much talent here that's
Speaker 5: not being showcase. And if it is it's out of town,
Speaker 5: you know, in the suburbs, and I am not gonna
Speaker 5: knock them, but so we need to have more more
Speaker 5: events in the city and showcase our talent and bring
Speaker 5: talent from without and in showcase of talent from with tennant.
Speaker 2: Devis. I want to wish you luck in all that
Speaker 2: you do, because you and I both know it's not
Speaker 2: what happens on the field. It's not what happens on
Speaker 2: the court, it's what happens in the minds of your players.
Speaker 2: And something tells me your strongest job is getting your
Speaker 2: players to understand that. And I wish you luck.
Speaker 5: So true, so true. I just want to say, and
Speaker 5: I really sincerely mean this. You're talking to a legend yourself,
Speaker 5: Jimmy Myers.
Speaker 2: Who's who's tell the many.
Speaker 5: Lives through the radio and as well as now through
Speaker 5: through paper. He's writing some fabulous articles in the base
Speaker 5: Dave Banner, and people need to really take the opportunity
Speaker 5: to to just take advantage of the mind that this
Speaker 5: man has, the information he has to offer, and the
Speaker 5: challenge that he possesses. So I mean, I I just
Speaker 5: want to give him a plug.
Speaker 2: When I first introduced him, I used the words legend,
Speaker 2: which he truly is. Dennis, I want to thank you.
Speaker 2: I wish you are Merry Christmas for you and your family,
Speaker 2: and I'll be checking the papers to see how well
Speaker 2: you did.
Speaker 5: Alrighty, thanks so much and have a great Holliday. Take
Speaker 5: you all right, God blessed in it.
Speaker 2: Everybody, and I'm going to go back to taking phone calls.
Speaker 2: We have a gym from Taunton. It's held for a
Speaker 2: half hour, so we'll get to you after we take
Speaker 2: our break a little late, but bear with me. Time
Speaker 2: and temperature ten forty seven thirty degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way live from the window World
Speaker 1: Life Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go right to the phone. This poor
Speaker 2: gentleman has held for a half hour, so Jim and
Speaker 2: Taunton I apologize for the length of time he held.
Speaker 2: Happy Holidays, welcome tonight's side.
Speaker 7: Thank you again. I appreciate you taking my call, and
Speaker 7: you know it's worth the wait. When I get to
Speaker 7: talk to I believe you call Jimmy Meyers a legend,
Speaker 7: which I would agree with one thousand percent, so it's
Speaker 7: well worth the weight. So thank you for that. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 7: To you gentlemen. By the way, Morgan, you had mentioned
Speaker 7: the word legend, and I will tell you that the
Speaker 7: gentleman that was in your last segment, Dennis Wilson, also
Speaker 7: has to have that title of legend because he is
Speaker 7: one of the best coaches we've had in the city
Speaker 7: of Boston, especially when it comes to dealing with the
Speaker 7: youth of Boston. So if anybody had that title to put,
Speaker 7: it would be Dennis Wilson. He's one of the best.
Speaker 2: I will how do you know, how do you know
Speaker 2: of Dennis Wilson.
Speaker 7: I've had the pleasure of actually seeing him coach, even
Speaker 7: though I went to a different high school. I actually
Speaker 7: went to some of the games when my high school
Speaker 7: was playing his high school, and I actually got a
Speaker 7: chance to see him coach, and he is one of
Speaker 7: the best. I got to tell you. I was very
Speaker 7: impressed by the way he carried himself and how he
Speaker 7: dealt with his players, and it's it's really a credit
Speaker 7: to the coaches that we have in the Boston school system.
Speaker 7: So I was fortunate to get to see that gentleman
Speaker 7: do what he's what he's best at. I will tell
Speaker 7: you he's one of the greatest I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: And Jimmy, you don't have to go any further than there,
Speaker 3: because Dennis has done this for a long long time.
Speaker 3: Whatever detractors he may have, because they'll say, you know,
Speaker 3: he's boisterous, and please Dennis, you don't survive thirty seven
Speaker 3: years at doing something without knowing what you're doing. And
Speaker 3: the most important thing is I always tell those same
Speaker 3: people look at the success. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 3: anybody agonizes more over losing a ballplayer or a student
Speaker 3: or someone that didn't fulfill what they were supposed to fulfill.
Speaker 3: The Dennis Dennis hurts when one of his charges young
Speaker 3: men or women don't do what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: That's what you carry with you as a coach. And
Speaker 3: most people, you know, you look at the great coaches,
Speaker 3: and there's so many of them. They agonize over the
Speaker 3: ones they lost, the ones that go on and do great, Yeah, good, wonderful.
Speaker 3: They're supposed to do that because that's what we train
Speaker 3: them to do. And you never see Dennis jumping out
Speaker 3: there to say, well, you know, we did this. He
Speaker 3: will always say they did this, and that's you know,
Speaker 3: that's the testament to the.
Speaker 2: Guy right and Jimmy, I don't know. I should have
Speaker 2: asked him while I had him. Has he been fortunate
Speaker 2: to have any of his players He's done this for
Speaker 2: over thirty years go on to the pros.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, said a couple of guys play poll
Speaker 3: ball overseas. I think Greg Simpson is one of his
Speaker 3: greatest players, went on to play at Northeastern and did
Speaker 3: have did have a run in some NBA camps and
Speaker 3: so forth. That Dennis goes a lot of guys. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm sure that some of the names that if we
Speaker 3: want to start to roll them off while we could
Speaker 3: be sitting here for half the night. But no, he's
Speaker 3: he's done that job. He's got them there. But I
Speaker 3: don't look at I don't look at coaching that way
Speaker 3: because very few people. I always tell people one in
Speaker 3: twelve million people have a chance to play in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Those are very large numbers, Morgan, and those numbers get
Speaker 3: greater every day, particularly when you consider all the people
Speaker 3: that are playing ball in this country, basketball, football, baseball, whatever, hockey.
Speaker 3: Your chance is like one in twelve Minutellion. And I
Speaker 3: always give this test when I go to just speak
Speaker 3: at high schools and places of that nature, even colleges.
Speaker 3: I'll say, does anyone in this audience know how long
Speaker 3: it would take you to count from one to one million?
Speaker 3: I didn't say twelve million, one to one million, thirty
Speaker 3: three hours. That's around the world record, that's over day.
Speaker 3: That's a day in nine hours to count from one
Speaker 3: to one million, and pray to God you don't lose
Speaker 3: your place, and so you'd have to have somebody there recording. Okay,
Speaker 3: you lost your place at at one hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: seven thousand, two hundred and forty one. We got to
Speaker 3: go back to that and start about thirty three hours.
Speaker 3: So I'm saying twelve times that you're talking about you're
Speaker 3: talking about chances that are minuscule at best. The few
Speaker 3: people that do make it, the four hundred plus players
Speaker 3: I think four seventy five or something like that. Because
Speaker 3: the league is getting ready to expand again, they'll have
Speaker 3: two more teams, so maybe five hundred players. That's five
Speaker 3: hundred players out of a country of two hundred and
Speaker 3: no three hundred million people, and that's those numbers are
Speaker 3: just astronomical. So as I've coached over the years, and
Speaker 3: I know Dennis has done the same thing. Because we've
Speaker 3: had these conversations. I always try to tell people listen.
Speaker 3: So I try to tell young players, listen, if you
Speaker 3: wind up getting a college education out of this experience,
Speaker 3: something your parents don't have to pay for. You won
Speaker 3: the game. They're paying you to go to college to
Speaker 3: play basketball. That's a job, that's being a professional. You're
Speaker 3: getting paid for your services. Now you get to go
Speaker 3: on further to play overseas or playing the NBA.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 3: And remember we've had, we have had, we have had
Speaker 3: ball players from this town. One of my just wrote
Speaker 3: about in the base the banner a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: It is your bass Napier who went from Boston to
Speaker 3: Connecticut and he won two national Champsmpionships, not one. As
Speaker 3: a freshman, he played with Kimba Walker on the Connecticut
Speaker 3: team that won the national title. Then as a senior
Speaker 3: he played with the guy I believe Ryan Boat Oak
Speaker 3: Knight or whatever his name is, a nothing little guard.
Speaker 3: But these two were the principal players when Connecticut went
Speaker 3: to the final four, and he was almost outstanding player
Speaker 3: of the final forty year they won his senior year
Speaker 3: Lebron James endorsed him to be drafted by the Miami Heat.
Speaker 3: They drafted him at twenty four, and then Lebron left
Speaker 3: and went back to Cleveland, so more or less left
Speaker 3: in there. But Chabaz survived for eight years in the NBA.
Speaker 3: He Choku about eight years of experience in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Just came back from Italy, winning two national titles there.
Speaker 2: Jimmy got to stop you there, jim and tauntin thank
Speaker 2: you for your call, but i gotta say goodbye to you.
Speaker 2: I've got news and I'm late for it. So let
Speaker 2: me quickly just say time and temperature ten fifty eight
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