RIP Dan Cook

Songbird · Jul 5, 2008

GuessWho said:

Some good Cook stories in this column:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA070508.1C.dancook.robinson.39e861c.html
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Loved this one ...

At the 1978 Super Bowl in New Orleans, Dan had played poker in the press hospitality room each night and had lost three-straight nights. Around 3 a.m., as we were walking down Bourbon Street, we saw two homeless men up ahead asking for money.

“I can't believe I'm so broke I don't even have money to give them,” Dan said. “I must be getting old. This never would've happened to me when I was younger. I would've found a way to make some quick money.”

The naïve one, I asked, “What could you possibly do to make money at 3 a.m., 500 miles away from home?”

He stopped, looked up and down the French Quarter, and then pulled me through toe-to-toe Super Bowl fans to the entrance of the Old Absinthe House Bar. It was standing-room only, with live jazz music blaring inside, with a few hundred people crowded around the entrance. There was no cover charge.

Dan pushed me through the doorway, and he stopped right in the middle of it.

“You stand here and keep an eye out for management or security,” he said.

He then turned sideways and loudly announced to those near the entrance, “Welcome to the Old Absinthe House. The cover charge is just $5!”

One by one for 10 or 15 minutes, he stood there collecting $5 per head as more tourists squeezed into the bar.

“Dan, watch out, here comes a security guard,” I warned.

He grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the bar and through the crowd outside. Once we were a block away, he counted $235, walked over to the two homeless guys we had seen earlier, and gave it to them.

“That's one way you can make money if you need it bad enough,” he said.
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Some Guy · Jul 5, 2008

GuessWho said:

Some good Cook stories in this column:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA070508.1C.dancook.robinson.39e861c.html
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Nearly posted that today. Good stuff.

Andy _ Kent · Jul 5, 2008

GuessWho said:

Some good Cook stories in this column:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA070508.1C.dancook.robinson.39e861c.html
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That was an outstanding article about clearly an outstanding man.

kleeda · Jul 6, 2008

And don't forget, his is credited in Bartlett's with "The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings."

Joe Williams · Jul 6, 2008

kleeda said:

And don't forget, his is credited in Bartlett's with "The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings."
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Here I always had thought Dick Motta said that. In fact, an online teaser headline about a Texas sports personality who said "...fat lady sings" made me think, until I clicked, that it was in fact Motta who died.

Football_Bat · Jul 6, 2008

Joe Williams said:

kleeda said:

And don't forget, his is credited in Bartlett's with "The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings."
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Here I always had thought Dick Motta said that. In fact, an online teaser headline about a Texas sports personality who said "...fat lady sings" made me think, until I clicked, that it was in fact Motta who died.
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I first remember that quote reading it in a paperback book about the T. Cullen Davis murders, but never knew who invented it.

Montezuma's Revenge · Jul 6, 2008

I keep wanting this to be RIP, Dane Cook.

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