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Maris started losing his hair from the daily stress of the media, not the chase. Maris had passed away when the movie was made, so why wouldn't the family want to share his story?
I'm not saying it's true or it isn't, but do you really think his family was going to say he struggled with the criticism?
Maris started losing his hair from the daily stress of the media, not the chase. Maris had passed away when the movie was made, so why wouldn't the family want to share his story?
I didn't say they wouldn't talk about him, I said they likely wouldn't classify him as a "brooding crybaby," if he truly was. RIF.
You people should be banned for derailing a thread honoring the memory of Dan Cook with a stupid internet argument.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...n.40c60ca.html
Dan Cook: Tales flow as admirers pay respects at visitation
By Dan McCarney
It was billed as a visitation and rosary for Dan Cook, the beloved San Antonio media icon who died last Thursday at 81.
But for his immediate family, Monday's gathering at Sunset Memorial Park and Funeral Home was more like a marathon with roughly 300 friends and fans filing past, each one anxious to express condolences and share their favorite Dan Cook tale.
“My dad would have been shocked,” said daughter Alice Ann Cook. “He would have been a bit embarrassed, too. All these people, just to see him.
“All the stories they have to tell. It took forever to get through the line.”
Neither rainy weather nor rush-hour traffic could deter Cook's many admirers. At one point, the line stretched nearly the length of the main hall, about 20 pews deep.
Many of the attendees knew Cook closely.
One, former St. Mary's basketball coach Ed Messbarger, still suspects Cook was responsible for the Texas College Coach of the Year award he won back in the 1970s.
Though Cook never admitted it, Messbarger figures there was no one else who could have garnered such an honor for a small-school hoops coach in a state infatuated with football.
“I couldn't believe it, to see Dan's picture in the paper,” Messbarger said. “My God. He really meant a lot to me.”
Unable to get time off work in Houston, former Brackenridge football star Warren McVea — whose signing with Houston in the early 1960s was first reported by Cook — sent his sister CharlesEtta McVea in his stead.
“My brother and Dan stayed in touch over all those years,” she said. “He thought Mr. Cook was a great man, a great man and a good person.”
McVea was one of the last to work her way through the line. Even after the rosary had ended and the well-wishers were nearly gone, the Cook clan was still catching its collective breath.
“It's overwhelming, to tell you the truth,” Cook's son Danny said.
Cook's funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. today at Sunset.
I had heard that years ago, but in actuality, the phrase comes from a poem written in the 1800's by James Whitcomb Riley called 'When Lide Married Him'
When Lide married him - w'y, she had to jes dee-fy
The whole poppilation! - But she never bat' an eye!
Her parents begged, and threatened - she must give him up - that he
Wuz jes "a common drunkard!" - And he wuz, appearantly.
Swore they'd chase him off the place
Ef he ever showed his face
Long after she'd eloped with him and married him fer shore!
When Lide married him, it wuz "Katy, bar the door!"
I have many fond memories of listening to Dan Cook while my parents watched KENS news. We've indeed lost a legend.
Well then he's responsible for bringing it into the 20th Century.
KENS had a really good hour long tribute to Cook last nite. The final video accompanied by the song "Danny Boy" was moving.
It was great! We recorded it last night and I watched it this morning and yes, the Danny Boy ending was a tear jerker.
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