The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly

[Ted The Bull]

fROM Jack Dunn via email from California:

Exlellent article ted... Ky only input. IMO, this was three articles, not one

[Ted The Bull]

Also from Jax:

BTW, I aggree... It all started withe Ali

It hit its apex IMO with Prince Naseem Hamed... A fighter of hype and flair who folded like a cheap piece of lawn furniture the first time he steped into the ring with a legitimate, top name opponent... But I believe that it started with Ali.

The thing about Ali that nobody imitating him gets is... That he wasn't pretending to be anyone. He was just being himself. li impersonators like Hamed are pretending they are him.

I think that a lot of would be Ali impersonaters could learn something from that.

[Ted The Bull]

From LaRue via email from Las Vegas:

great! oooooops, I mean GREAT!

[Holly McCall]

It's so conflicted for me. I went down to Miss. with the Jesuit priests from Chicago back in the early 60's to help register the voters. That was scary stuff. Then the Cicero riots. Then I got caught in the MLK riots in Hartford and my ass was saved by a guy named Ned Coll. Then Viet Nam. So many cross currents, but at the end of the day, I realized I had experienced things and saw injustices in the late 40's, 50's and early 60's to which no young kid should ever be exposed. Back then, Chicago was as racist a city as any in the country and I could not wait to get out. I did and never looked back. As for Ali, I am not a great fan but I certainly understand that he was the Right man for a bad time....and what he did to stand up against the establishment was righteous. I will call BearStearns and talk with him. He was in the Nam and I know where he is coming from but perhaps I can give him another perspective to think about.

Please straighten him out, Ted.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Bear Stern NEEDS to realize that it would have been INSANITY for any black man in this country AT THAT TIME to go and risk life and limb only so he could come back to eating in the alley. BearStern likely is white and didnt have to deal with such problems, u know? Guys like him ALWAYS look at it from the white perspective

[Ted The Bull]

From Dana (former pro boxer) via email from Boston:


Very nice piece here.I agree with you 100%

[Ted The Bull]

From Big Walter via email from Las Vegas:

"Ted, don't forget Vinny Paz. He was one of the worse trash talkers and the garbage he threw at Dana Rosenblatt was pure sewage... a cheap punk was Vinny."

[Holly McCall]

When Tominson of the Chiefs scores a td , he hands the football to the ref. That's old school and is classy. When T.O. scores, he does a back flip and pose, nd that's like trash talking...classless. IMO

[Ted The Bull]

Holly, that's precisley my point. A small investment in humility pays big dividends in respect.

[Ted The Bull]

FROM DAXX FROM ALBANY VIA EMAIL:

Ted,
Hows things going my friend. Sorry about not responding to some of your e-mails things been hectic. How many people you writing for now? I don't know how you pump out so many articles seems lately I have all I can do to get out one a week. Eh life of an assistant editor I guess . Talk soon. Cheers