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00:05back to the beginning
00:17welcome to who's number one i'm trey wingo some are shrewd calculating self-promoters
00:24some are just naturally sought out by the spotlight and some have the unfortunate habit
00:29of inserting their feet into their well you know some of them make you chuckle some of them make
00:34you cringe some you love some you loathe but whatever emotion they get out of you indifference
00:40is not among them so here they are as selected by espn classic the 20 most outrageous sports
00:47characters of all time who's number one 20 20. you don't know if it's like vince mcmahon is an act
00:58when you see him on tv i assume it is because i watch his show and like he's fighting his
01:02son
01:03and his daughter and his mother he's the best bad guy they've got so when he goes out on tv
01:09and he's
01:10yelling and screaming i mean he's good show in and of itself like all successful pitch men vince mcmahon
01:17knows what sells and what the entrepreneur of wrestling caters to is the the xfl public's
01:25insatiable appetite for violence his thespians and tights bleed for a living mcmahon understood
01:32that it really didn't matter whether wrestling was fake or not that was not the issue the issue
01:39was entertainment in that sense he was ahead of the sports curve but the xfl was his chance i mean
01:46that was a chance to be more than brilliant i thought he was trying to blend sports and entertainment
01:53i credit vince mcmahon for having the to try i think he overhyped the league i think he he made
01:59people think that somehow this league would be superior to the nfl and he shouldn't you know
02:05that was a mistake it's like new coat they gotta get his name right it's jesse the body ventura
02:12quote the body it's like are you sick of the nfl no he's not somebody that i want around but
02:20if you
02:21look at how many people go to his events and watch his events on tv you know you can't say
02:26that his
02:26success is by accident 19 19 19 19 you either loved him or you hated him but you could not
02:37ignore him
02:41his ego was immense his vocabulary polysyllabic
02:46howard cosell brought bite to sports commentary employing as his signature phrase tell it like it is
02:53sometimes though he made himself bigger than the story he was telling why have you suddenly
02:58i should bring you in to take the step he was the most important sportscaster not not necessarily the
03:03best uh uh nor the most accurate nor the best like tonight we hope it will be a worthy event
03:11we frankly
03:11don't know we hope young man i'm not sure you're even worthy to hear the legend that ought to be
03:19spun
03:20about a man of my stature he was a know-it-all and and he did know it all and
03:25he certainly knew
03:25everything he thought he knew we think and it is a typically wind-blown candlestick park and frankly
03:34i am cold i saw myself as a person who wanted to bring to public attention that which i thought
03:41was
03:41wrong nothing more no less than that howard cosell turned on every person he ever worked with
03:49howard died a a lonely man and it's such a shame 18 18. he died a lonely man because his
03:57wife died of cancer
03:58his long-time wife like 40 plus years or so died of cancer before he died
04:08john rocker in america you have the freedom of speech unless you say something a lot of people
04:18don't like relievers suspended for inflammatory remarks he made about foreigners homosexuals
04:23and minorities full of strut and swagger john rocker was one of baseball's most effective
04:29flamethrowers but when his prejudice splattered quotes appeared in a national magazine
04:35the atlanta reliever was caught in a fire not even he could put out listen to the reception some of
04:42the
04:42new york fans were genuinely offended and those who weren't pretended to be offended
04:49i've done some crazy things in my life but you know sit there and criticize
04:53and the backgrounds and all that kind of stuff you got to be a little smarter than that
04:58he's kind of taking on this dennis rodman attitude me against the new york mets fans me
05:03against new york john is a real type of anything in his life
05:07doesn't go his way he can go off the deep end this has a statement i'd like to read everybody
05:13he did the wrong thing he responded the best thing to do is tug your cap walk down the dugout
05:19sit down put the towel around your shoulder in the december issue of sports illustrated i made
05:24several comments of which i'm ashamed what did he want to do just return and start playing tomorrow
05:28that would be a wrong message he always called me old man i'm not calling him redneck people want
05:34me to say bye stuff about him no because i know i was mad at him he's not a bigoted
05:39racist i don't
05:40think john rocker deserved to become a complete villain
05:48complete punk firstly he's not good enough he never had a winning record in a season he never shut out
05:56any
05:56any any team he yeah he never pitched a shutout some some confederate hey some some some confederate
06:08hick thinks he can talk bad about other people
06:15and he's from georgia
06:25there's a mafia godfather of football how has that persona about it said that back up don't say
06:32nothing to me don't blank with him he is a mean guy he's lawsuit fanatic he's always suing
06:42everybody everything's a conspiracy he's pretty suing us right now for talking about he sues
06:47people all the time when he feels like it al davis is a professional rebel and author of the cry
06:52just win baby since the 1960s he's confounded and perplexed the emperors of pro football
06:59while providing a home for misfits and cast-offs of all stripes
07:05he never put it to the league for a vote he just moved he said the league with consent is
07:10not
07:10necessary he was going to challenge the system and he did and he won he will sit at a table
07:15with
07:1530 other owners of national football league teams and defy every one of them as winston
07:21sergill said you never give in to a group of evil people some people don't like him that's okay he's
07:27he's not out to make friends he's got to win games i mean he you make a mistake with him
07:32and you're
07:32gonna pay for it i mean he had shanahan there shanahan wanted to change things you're out
07:39i think his motto says it all just win baby he wants to win at any cost he always seems
07:46to be
07:46dressed for either a funeral or the buffet at valley's i wonder what goes on in the morning where
07:51al makes that decision which color sweatsuit he's gonna wear is he in a good mood he's going with the
07:57white sweatshirt is he in a bad mood he's going with the blacks or could it be vice versa just
08:00to
08:01throw people off i am not one of the pack never have been if you live your life worrying about
08:07what
08:07people think uh you'll never take a step 16 16. football demands a chorus 11 guys have to play
08:21together and mark gastonneau was a soloist he didn't get a sack go back to the huddle you got
08:26up and did that gastonneau dance you know the sack dance the crazy man dance i know being the subject
08:31of
08:31a couple of those dances i didn't appreciate he wanted to be what the ultimate superstar was supposed
08:38to be great on the field you know with the good looking babes off the field but at the end
08:43of the
08:43day a lot of people just got fed up i certainly as a head coach didn't appreciate some of the
08:50problems that he gave me with his sack dancing gyrations mark gastonneau helped launch the era
08:56of self-celebration in sports the jets defensive end had a fierce hunger for quarterbacks women and
09:02the good life he indulged in all three and in the end he's self-destructed was mark gastonneau a
09:09self-promoting kind of guy does the sun rise there weren't enough mirrors in the national football league
09:16to uh satisfy gastonneau walking in front of the cameras flexing his triceps his only ball player
09:22his belly button was showing he was standing in the locker room nothing on him and there was one
09:28female reporter among the group and he looked over to her and said hey so and so what do you
09:34think of
09:34this and the woman said well it looks like a only smaller and for once gastonneau was shut up
09:42everything was turmoil in mark's life it was like you know the volcano's ready to blow at any time
09:47you know and it did on sunday afternoon and it was all about tasting it and loving it and and
09:52moving
09:52on you know if it tasted good he wanted more 15 15 today there's been a violent attack on an
10:02american
10:02athlete i've always been a very strong person when it comes to speaking my mind if you don't like it
10:08time leon likes a competitive spirit just in case she's watching she started in the rink and ended in
10:15the ring tanya harding dragged figure skating into the soap opera spotlight when her ex-husband arranged
10:22a knee capping of her biggest olympic rival in 1994 disgraced she later traded in her skates for boxing
10:30gloves all the sponsors were going to nancy kerrigan and so the only way for tanya harding to start
10:37getting the big bucks was to have kerrigan out of the picture we're teammates we're friends but
10:42uh when it comes right down to it uh well have these little dollar signs in my head
11:05supposed to be of what the olympics is and you know it was like wow
11:11no out of my way jesus i never saw so many members of the press flock to one place so
11:18instantaneously serious journalists tabloid journalists sports journalists it was amazing
11:24everything that happened to me in 94 was caused by media rushing to judge hey i didn't do anything
11:32i wasn't the person that attacked nancy all of a sudden skating became wrestling
11:38you know i was waiting for somebody to pull brass knuckles out of their skating dress and go after a
11:42judge and then on top of all that you can do something that bad in america and then emerge
11:48even bigger and better which is what she did a train wreck is a train wreck and it's fascinating to
11:53look at but it's just a train wreck hey whatever sport you're in you should be the very best there
11:58is and
11:59if you're not hey beat the person with a baseball bat who is right
12:14he jogged backwards all the way around the bases the crowd giving him his standing ovation
12:22and casey mcmett's manager released him and he said there's not room in this club for two clowns
12:30well he was an unpredictable guy he was a showman jimmy pearsall is always described as colorful
12:36jimmy pearsall was seriously emotionally disturbed jimmy pearsall may have played the role of clown prince
12:42of baseball but on the inside he struggled to control the demons tormenting him although beset by wild
12:49mood swings pearsall logged 17 seasons in the majors with a batting average of 272. if he had a good
12:56day
12:56he was on top of the world if he had a bad day he was lying on the floor fans
13:02behind home plate were
13:03getting on him and taunting him he ran right toward the screen behind home plate and started climbing up
13:11the screen i had gotten out of hand as far as my not being able to calm me down and
13:19until they came
13:20up with lithium to treat manic depressives he really struggled he taunted billy martin one day when the
13:27yankees were taking fielding practice and martin came over and beat the hell out of him in the dugout
13:32i want to tell you i get suspended for three days people always say he's goofy he's wacky
13:37but then all of a sudden i start making money once you start making money you're no longer wacko
13:42you're dumb like a fox jimmy pearsall
13:4913 13 13. winning's important to me it's second it's second to breathing breathing's first winning
13:55second he's done some bizarre things but uh you know he's got the power to do whatever the hell
14:01he wants to do he owns a team he's just the boss i mean you say you say the boss
14:06you're gonna come
14:06up with bruce springs thing or or george steinbrenner george steinbrenner abides by the chaos theory
14:12never satisfied forever demanding rule one the boss is always right rule two when in doubt see rule one
14:19the owner of the yankees perfected the art of checkbook baseball here's this jerk comes out of
14:25cleveland lucks into the sports deal of our time george steinbrenner the first few days he came
14:34to see how things were being run noticed that fresh flowers were placed on everybody's desks every
14:41morning and it drove george crazy what's with these flowers i want this camp run like almost a boot
14:48camp if you're on a ship in a calm sea you're on a sail schooner or something you never get
14:53anywhere
14:53well he's tough i mean yeah he's tough on uh his employees you know his players his employees
14:59everyone i was i looked at one of george's favorites george was nice to me until i didn't play well
15:07then he got on me like he did everyone else there has to be a little bit of turmoil a
15:11little bit of
15:12desire to want to exceed and do better the 103 victories doesn't mean anything that's like kissing
15:18your sister he's a hard man to work for because he wants to win every single day and at times
15:25he's
15:25not as patient as you'd like him to be one time when he went to call the front desk at
15:32the boston
15:32sheraton and the phone rang so many times he went and had the operator fired there's 110 in every man
15:39i believe 10 more than he thinks there is including myself and it's i want to get into that 10
15:45as much
15:46as i can from everybody and maybe at times i go overboard for the tigers a gentleman i think we
16:02would have to refer to as a character wait until you see this guy talks to the ball he rubs
16:07the mound
16:08he got on his hands and knees and he played with the dirt he'd take the ball and actually start
16:14talking to the ball mark fidrich is the man people have come to see tonight the momentum was building
16:20the fans were in a frenzy the tigers take the field and now it's estimated 50 000 fans come on
16:28bird bird
16:29and that was the night he became a star called big bird mark fidrich was as gangly and likable as
16:36his
16:36sesame street namesake the american league rookie of the year in 1976 he went 19 and 9 for detroit
16:42but over the next four seasons was only 10 and 10 and faded away it was just a carnival like
16:49atmosphere
16:49the sesame street characters came out the hairdos changed yeah they came to see me i don't know why
16:57i'm relating maybe because i related to him you know goofed around with him joked with him it was quite
17:03a
17:04challenge to go in to face this guy because uh here's a young guy and uh started getting people
17:08out and caught the fancy of the tiger fans and we got to be kind of humorous to tell you
17:13the truth
17:13this guy was jeans and a t-shirt beat up sneakers he could blend right in to the crowd standing
17:18in
17:19line for an alice cooper concert he was honest he had no hidden agenda what he was doing was really
17:25him
17:25it wasn't an act it was sincere 11 11 11 warwick sanders sanders and there's sanders has one man to
17:39beat
17:40and he scores the play gets on by sanders flies over and now he is safe at home
17:49deon sanders named himself prime time he was good enough to play at the top level of two sports
17:55but what he excelled at most was keeping his name in neon
17:59alana falcons first round choice deon sanders i was kind of scared i thought detroit was going to take
18:05me i would ask for so much money that i had to put me on layaway
18:09the irony of that statement is deon in his career never beat detroit i think it was like oh and
18:17three
18:17against them so maybe he should have gone to detroit
18:22who gave a damn about the cornerbacks and who would even pay a cornerback before deon sanders came in the
18:28game deon was like his own ongoing party and he went from city to city and and sort of put
18:34it on
18:35display and it got to the point that deon's antics were anticipated as much as his play on the field
18:44mcmahon steps up now he'll take himself
18:49like a linebacker he'd take his hits so that he wasn't some pretty boy quarterback
18:56he was a winner is what he was um he's a little bit crazy too he didn't have any
19:02a respect for his body he played the game with reckless abandon well i know a lot of you guys
19:07think well i can't take a hit i like you guys watch the damn film see if i can't take
19:12a hit
19:12jim mcmahon was a court jester with billboard headbands and dark glasses for props he was a
19:17pugnacious productive and punky qb although nagged by injuries his teams won almost seven out of every
19:23ten games he started well i think that whole rebellious nature is what made him appealing
19:28jim knew how to create a more of a circus atmosphere dick has said we had to have collars
19:34on to travel on the plane here comes priest mcmahon in terms of nfl management he had such a
19:42disdain for them and it was quite obvious and i think a lot of people sort of got a kick
19:46out of
19:46that well he's like charles barkley he's a man's man you know he'll stand up and be counted i called
19:51i guess the women of new orleans sluts which is totally off the wall they gave me a five thousand
19:56dollar fine for wearing my adidas headband which i had worn all year long made no sense to me so
20:04then he wears a plain headband and writes roselle on it see when the league doesn't get a cut of
20:09whatever you're putting on your head you can't do it why don't we start off with controversy well
20:20i guess that's the story of my life veck was probably the only lovable owner of a sports
20:26franchise i have ever recalled before veck i don't think baseball knew the meaning of marketing
20:33he was part demagogue part con man there was substance underneath the ideas my old man won a
20:40pennant in chicago in 59 everybody remembers the exploding scoreboard he should be remembered for
20:45being a great baseball guy as well as being a little outrageous his autobiography was titled veck
20:51as in wreck bill veck was an innovative showman and the rare owner attuned to the common man
20:59he fathered many of the baseball promotions still alive today plus a few wrecks along the way
21:08in about the last two innings is when the records really begin to fly and you'd be out on the
21:14field
21:15and you'd have to duck them things home plate was gone right field looked like miami beach
21:21because they just literally poured pulled grass but then uh he had called in the police unit the
21:28umpire in chief and the president of the league has declared that the playing conditions on the
21:33field will not permit them to play the second ball game that was one promotion that backfired big time
21:42you can't go to any major league city now and pick up the paper in a three-game series and
21:47i know it's
21:47either ball day or bad day or free program day or a hot dog for ten cent day that was
21:52all that
21:53for a crowd this large in st louis we'd have played a double header
22:01he'd always kind of perceived himself as a gunfighter in a way you know he always said hey if i
22:08lived back
22:08then i'd either been a sheriff or a gunfighter billy martin who says you couldn't do both
22:17he's not thinking big enough add-on confrontation his fuse was short and he struggled to control
22:24his anger martin was hired to manage the yankees five different times and fired five different times
22:31billy is really upset martin didn't like the way reggie played a ball in right field billy accused me
22:38of loafing then he told me he was going to kick my now billy wants to get at reggie that's
22:44gonna pull
22:45me on the ground he said you screw me and i screw back harder he had to look on his
22:50face like he really
22:51meant that billy was kind of a blue collar guy he was a scrappy guy liked to fight like to
22:57live hard he
22:58felt like he belonged in new york and and new york belonged to him he was a troubled troubled man
23:04you know he was living a double life trying to manage a high profile team like the yankees and
23:10i think there was demons inside him i'm also sorry about these things are written about george stein
23:15menner he does not deserve them he was troubled by temperament it was aggravated by substance abuse he
23:25drank too much it was a combustible mixture of unhappiness i'm a free spirit and i'm gonna try
23:34to do other things that george wants me to do his end seems so inevitable he died drunk
23:49the philadelphia 76ers select charles balkley and the sixers sky high the biggest thing
23:58that charles wanted was attention and he got it as a basketball player but that wasn't good enough
24:05and you guys you get a life charles can say the most offensive filthy nasty thing and you'll laugh
24:12your head off you can't help it if you're a regular person you're giving your opinion if you're famous
24:18you're controversial by turns profane and philosophical hilarious and offensive in his nba career
24:26sir charles totaled more than 12 000 boards and 23 000 points and 10 times as many opinions
24:34my idol a lot of times is charles barclay i wish i could say what he says uh you toss
24:39somebody
24:39through the round mound of rebound they called him to a plate glass window you spit into the crowd i
24:49don't care who you're aiming at you wind up hitting a little girl those those are tough to tough to
24:54defend how a person like to tell all y'all out there to kiss my big black i try to
25:01be honest the press did
25:03not like that or appreciate it but i didn't concern myself with them because i don't worry about what
25:07they think about me what i see in the mirror that's the most important thing to me oh that espn
25:13news
25:15y'all still trying to rip people off with that old station aren't you it was such a mix
25:20of uh good and then somehow he finds himself on espn in this documentary or episode show thing
25:31bad and logic and illogic it was a walking mass of contradictions that was a really really boring
25:38game i apologize for playing like crap sir charles future governor of alabama
25:44at which time most people will move out of alabama
25:52six six six i'm the greatest i'm knocking out all bones if you get
25:58too muhammad are we at six no
26:04no way six now i'll knock you out he was called the louisville lip he was seen as a trash
26:12talking youthful jester and he put on a show before the fight he put on a show during it
26:17and after it he was even better ali was a talking machine you know he was a road show he
26:23was a
26:23circus i'm handsome i'm fast i'm pretty and can't possibly be beat when he's getting ready to fight
26:30listen he he goes drives his bus onto the front lawn at liston's house in denver come on out here
26:37and
26:37fight i'll fight you now you big ugly bear he comes out to meet liston and liston starts the retreat
26:44if liston goes back in his father he'll end up in the rain fast listen thought the guy was crazy
26:50and
26:51he wasn't too happy about going into the ring with a crazy man there was a time when muhammad ali
26:56was
26:56said to be the most recognizable person on the planet the three-time heavyweight champ was an innate
27:02showman a genius at improvisation in and out of the ring it will be a killer and a chiller and
27:10a
27:10thriller when i get the gorilla in manila he changed the way athletes acted with the media and
27:16the way the media treated athletes you're being extremely truculent whatever truculent mean if that's
27:21good i'm there he transcended the sport he wasn't just this great boxer he was a celebrity
27:27quick joe joe fraser is really angry shut down joe shut down quick oh man i love that segment
27:38muhammad called him ignorant and he's really angry this is the most self-aware performer you could
27:43imagine he was a comedian a political figure an entertainer perhaps because of the times
27:51and the way he impacted them nobody even compares to muhammad ali
28:02what is with that hair what is in that hair does he get up in the morning and spend 15
28:07minutes on it
28:08or do you just sleep on this side of the bed get up and it's like that
28:12come on snoop he only spends 30 to 45 minutes on the hair 30 to 45 minimum
28:22it's said the only thing square in boxing is the ring and no one navigates that high stakes area
28:28outside the ropes like don king heavyweight champion of promoters and hairdos
28:34he is an incredible charismatic individual that would captivate you from all sides one of the
28:45reasons that he became more successful than any other boxing promoter in the country is he outworked the
29:02other guys
29:04mackinroe is a new yorker through and through living in new york a lot of people yell you know i
29:11don't
29:11this is normal to me john mackinroe played tennis like a man with nitro in his shorts
29:16yowzer it wasn't a matter of whether the three-time wimbledon winner would explode just a matter of when
29:28the man was picasso on the court he was an artist but there was some part of him that needed
29:36those
29:36mean little cheap shots you cannot be serious yeah i guess i have a bad temper you're pathetic you know
29:45john mackinroe's a perfectionist and he could not cope with the fact that there was imperfection all
29:50around him it not only annoyed him uh it made him furious he just didn't know how to get out
29:57of it and
29:58so he just would keep on rolling i think quite a few people came just to see him explode i
30:05mean they
30:06were hoping that the guy would lose it tell me what i said to abuse
30:09to some extent he was like evil knievel you know you wanted to see him
30:14get over the barrels but if he didn't that's part of the deal too
30:26he's a guy that i wouldn't want to get into altercation but i wouldn't want to get in a ring
30:29with him i wouldn't even want to get in an argument with him i'm from brownville brooklyn i'm not afraid
30:33of nobody i'm just ready to get it on and crush this guy's skull problem with mike tyson is there's
30:39no one mike tyson i know a delightful mike tyson i know a surly mike tyson i know a smart
30:43mike tyson i
30:44know a person trying to be nice who isn't nice the second you put someone else's body part in your
30:51mouth and bite down and remove it you got big big problems he burst onto boxing scene as a chilling
31:00engine of destruction but the very rages that drove mike tyson in the ring were also the instruments
31:06of his undoing he carried his mean streets upbringing with him when he wanted money he would
31:12tell an old lady ma'am may i please help you with your packages to go and he helped them
31:17and then he
31:17freaking knocked their teeth out and you think i give a damn about you and then y'all on there
31:21i don't
31:21care about living or dying taking somebody off the street heavyweight champ of the world at 20 years old
31:27making more money than big companies that'd be a strong thing oh tyson nailed down york tyson
31:35what a shock it's not over he is a historian of the sport he knows how vastly overrated his record
31:42is he knows that when he went into the ring against the two other leading lights of his generation
31:46evander holyfield and lennox lewis they wiped up the canvas with him
31:59i don't have one friend in my entire life everybody took advantage of tyson everybody
32:07that could get a hand in tyson's pocket but once they had one hand in they try to get the
32:12everybody except custom auto he passed and then kevin rooney tyson got rid of him that's his fault
32:22other hand then you're scared cali you got man enough to with me you can't last two minutes in my
32:27world
32:28i guess most of the things that they wrote about me were probably true i was conducting myself in a
32:34pretty weird way back then where do you go from here mike i don't know man i might just fade
32:38into
32:38bolivian you know i mean um i don't have nowhere to go he's had a rough go at it and
32:44i know he's done
32:45some heinous things but uh i feel sad for mark tyson i feel sorry for him
32:54i almost forgot yesterday was his birthday 60th birthday
33:05probably no motivational device i've ever come across is as good as this i don't think there's
33:11anyone who is more passionate about the game of basketball than bob knight
33:30everybody had an opinion on bob knight and everybody wasn't just they had opinions they
33:35had strong opinions at indiana bob knight was the tyrant in the red sweater
33:40winning three national championships while erupting in geysers of profanity and temper
33:46he was caught on tape choking one of his players neil reed fired in 2000 he was then hired by
33:53texas
33:53tech and controversy came with him bob and i said great coach do i agree with these methods no but
34:01does he agree with mine no who's right and who's wrong i think of bob as more of a driver
34:05a dictator
34:06and the leader there are very few guys who are in this profession who have courage enough to be what
34:13bobby knight was i'll handle this the way i want to handle it now that i'm here you it up
34:18to begin
34:18with now just sit there or leave i think there was always this kind of hope out there that you
34:23know
34:24he'll get older he'll mellow and it became pretty obvious that that wasn't going to happen
34:28i notified him that he was being removed as basketball coach effective immediately what
34:35counted in that situation was the votes were the people of indiana ready for bob knight to be fired
34:41and i think the answer to that is yes and i think people finally realize that i don't care who
34:47the best
34:47guy they've ever had no who he is there are certain standards of conduct that must be upheld
34:57when my time on earth is gone and my activities here are passed i want they bury me upside down
35:05and my
35:05critics can kiss my our number one left chaos and what what what he was a player a player performer
35:19which he could do with ease he could still play in the game and be almost a total performer
35:23dennis rodman as a rebounder for the pistons during those great years of the bad boys
35:29was not going to get any recognition rebounding playing defense so what did he do he did the same
35:34thing deon sanders did in football rodman takes a very specialized skill and links that with you know
35:41rupaul when dennis got 15 rebounds and dressed normal he made two million dollars a year and when he
35:48started wearing dressing acting doing his stuff he made 20 million a year i think the people really
35:54fell for dennis rodman i think they saw somebody out there really enjoy the game of basketball
36:01he was the illustrated man tattooed from stem to stern with rainbow hair and transvestite flair dennis
36:08rodman led the nba in rebounding a record seven straight years he won five championship rings and
36:15epitomize the outrageous we've told the players that hey dennis is a special unique
36:20and also an eight time old defense eight oh uh all eight work consecutive years
36:30i'm gonna have to find him every game and you guys are gonna have to have a different set of
36:34rules so we're gonna go by i have rules for you guys i have rules for dennis
36:40he kicked the photographer one day out of a reaction thing and he did a couple other things
36:45and it was kind of like a little kid walking in the principal's office and you felt bad for him
36:50because you knew he was hurting he was kind of like tom hanks in the movie big there's this kid
36:55inside
36:55of dennis and every day he wants to get up and play people wanted to see him dive into the
37:00stands
37:01wanted to see if he would bump into a referee for a few years i mean he was fascinating and
37:07then
37:07i think the act was first and basketball was second he did this he did that it's like that's all
37:15you
37:15ever hear about me you never hear about the soft side of dennis charlotte i'm just a real happy go
37:19lucky guy for us being on the court it's a shame when you consider that inch for inch pound for
37:26pound the greatest rebounder ever and also maybe one of the smartest players ever but we don't think of
37:32them in either regard just so we're clear we've looked at the wacky 16 rebounds this last eight nine
37:43seasons in the league in the in the in the 90s who who does that in the 90s who does
37:52that past the 70s
37:56come on
37:57come on
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