Sports Fan Homer
8 famous (or not) fans who have long thrived in the
1. Mayor Bobby Murcer fan of reading history
Our first story takes an average of fairy tales and an awful final. In August 1977, Bobby Murcer vowed Cubs homered for the sick terminal fan Scott Crull. That night, Murcer hit two of them. It's really incredible, especially considering that Murcer hit nine homers next season. But that's not why Crull – a 12-year-old from Calumet City, Illinois, a bone cancer – makes this list.
Spreading the game nationally on ABC, Keith Jackson told the country how Murcer had fulfilled the last wish of a dying child. Eyes watered, spines tingling. There was only one problem – nobody had once told him the child was dying. His parents were aghast. Three weeks later, died Crull.
2. Lucky Charmers
Every sport has its own strange traditions. I would say hockey "Throwing an octopus on the ice for good luck" is the rarest. Discard the eight tentacles cephalopod is the result of store owners Pete and Jerry Cusimano Detroit. Date: April 15, 1952. The logic: one tentacle for each of the eight victories it took playoffs to win the Stanley Cup. Later this spring, probably driven by the sort of octopus, the Red Wings won the title. PETA has opposed this practice that continues today. The Red Wings mascot is not a Red Wing, but the octopus.
3. The John 3:16 Guy
Also known as "Rainbow Man, the born-again Rollen Stewart and his John 3:16 signs were incidental at major events in the 1970s and 80s. He has brought their post World Series, Super Bowl, the Olympics and World Cup. He was outside Buckingham Palace when Di and Carlos del Mar, went to see the Pope in Alaska. But he was more religious sports fan. According to the Los Angeles Times, Stewart planned to assassinate President Bush and candidate Clinton in 1992. And now serving three life sentences for holding a girl hostage at a Hyatt Los Angeles, also in 1992.
On the other hand, chapter three, verse sixteen of the Gospel of John says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. "This is also printed on cups at the In-N-Out Burger.
4. The All-Star Heckler
For 12 years, Maryland lawyer and Washington Bullets fan Robin Ficker Heckler was most prominent in the NBA. With season tickets behind the bench in the away team, his antics were legendary. When Frank Layden recalled Jazz said that the U.S. Today Worst Dressed Coach, Layden had to be restrained by insurance. With the Bulls in the city, high read Ficker Maverick Coach Phil Jackson of sex by 1975 autobiography. During the 1993 NBA Finals Bulls-Suns Charles Barkley (Suns) Ficker flew to Phoenix and bought him a ticket behind the Chicago bench. Ficker was ejected in the first quarter.
The cartoons became at the Wizards in 1997 and moved into MCI Center next season. Ficker new seats were not in shouting distance of the visiting team, which forced him to interrupt retirement. In 2006, he received 9.5% of the votes in order to lose the Montgomery County Executive.
5. Kim Jong-il
True, the world's most feared dictator is a hoops junkie. During a visit in 2000, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented him with a basketball signed by Michael Jordan. The Chicago Bulls are the favorite team of Kim Jong-il, who has a video library with every game Jordan played. In "5'3, the supreme commander the KPA is approximately the same height as Mugsy Bogues.
6. David Letterman a Stalker
biggest fan of David Letterman mostly headache. When she was arrested for stealing Dave Porsche in 1988, Margaret Ray tells police she was Mrs. Letterman. She was a frequent intruder on the property of Dave once camped on the tennis court. Ray did a monologue antics regular destination. But the jokes stopped in 1998 when Ray was killed. The spread of collective guilt, when we learned that he was schizophrenic, as his two brothers, who also committed suicide.
7. Joe from Saddle River
A die-hard Jets, Mets and the Rangers fans, Joe Benigno was a frequent caller to WFAN, a radio station in New York all sports. Benigno won contest Fan Appreciation Station Day in 1994, winning the chance to guest host his own show. In 1995, Joe Guy Night WFAN, a title he held for nearly a decade. In 2004, was considered ready day and taking into account the time interval 10:00 to 13:00. For all lovers of solitude and calls to radio programs out there, Joe gives hope.
8. Steffi Graf Fan Mayor
Disturbed and obsessed with Steffi Graf back to see the top, Gunter Parche stabbed Monica Seles during a match in 1993 in one of the most disturbing incidents in sports history. Almost as troubling was punishment. Patch was sentenced to two years of freedom probation and ordered to receive mandatory counseling. Even more shocking, I can find pictures of this on YouTube.
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