RIP Arnold Palmer

[User 11148]

I was thinking more that I would rather that not be the last thing he saw.

Gotcha.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I don't understand why they would do the Arnie special on ESPN2 and move the WSOP to ESPN News. Why not just do the Arnie stuff on ESPN News? I don't suppose there are many of us, but I regularly record the WSOP shows.

I don't get ESPN news but I do get ESPN 2. I'm guessing more subscribers on 2 than news, and that's why.

But if you're missing poker, here's a live look in.

 

[MileHigh]

Is ESPN2 any more prominent than ESPN News? Has anyone ever said "I've got to tune in to ESPN2" when some big sports news breaks? Seriously, ever?

ESPN2 in much more many households than ESPN News. People who hear this news will turn to ESPN and see a nondescript game but see the coverage is on ESPN2. They know that channel more than ESPN News.

 

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RIP to a great, great man and, on a lighter note but every bit as true -- one of the great signatures in sports. He always insisted on taking the time to make it perfect, something 95 percent of today's athletes in all sports absolutely do not do for their fans.

 

[jr/shotglass]

 

[Chef2]

Lerner is about to lose it.
Fun fact: Rory McIlroy earned 11.53 million dollars today. Arnold Palmer earned 6.9 million dollars in his career.

 

[UPChip]

I like champions who have won the PGA - okay?

RE

 

[Double Down]

I like champions who have won the PGA - okay?

RE

Amazing this talking burrito thinks no one is a hyphenated word.

 

[Bronco77]

Woke up to the Fernandez news, go to bed with this. Ahh, ********.

Same here. The Joe Schultz reference reminds me of another Bouton gem from Ball Four that seems fitting: "There was a lot of day today. I'm not sure I can take many like that."

 

[dixiehack]

As if this day hasn't sucked enough?

How many times have y'all torn up the cover this weekend?

 

[Songbird]

 

[Steak Snabler]

Fun fact: Rory McIlroy earned 11.53 million dollars today. Arnold Palmer earned 6.9 million dollars in his career.

Yeah, but Arnie earned many millions more than that in endorsements. He still routinely showed up on the lists of wealthiest athletes, more than 50 years after his prime.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Yeah, but Arnie earned many millions more than that in endorsements. He still routinely showed up on the lists of wealthiest athletes, more than 50 years after his prime.

He was the first athlete as marketing conglomerate. When they think you can still sell stuff in your 80s, that's an awesome connection with the public.

 

[Ace]

Among the things that Arnie "invented" or elevated was sports marketing. He is the reason IMG exists.

He also was a real charitable and generous person. My sons were born in the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital in Orlando.

RIP.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Among the things that Arnie "invented" or elevated was sports marketing. He is the reason IMG exists.

He also was a real charitable and generous person. My sons were born in the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital in Orlando.

RIP.

And co-founded the Golf Channel, which led to MLB Network, NFL Network and so on ...

About Us | Golf Channel

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Wrote Arnold a letter once and he wrote me back an even longer letter a week later. I was blown away and called a former teacher who was and still is a golf writer to tell him. "Yeah, that's just who he is. He spends an hour each day signing autographs for people who write."

 

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Wrote Arnold a letter once and he wrote me back an even longer letter a week later. I was blown away and called a former teacher who was and still is a golf writer to tell him. "Yeah, that's just who he is. He spends an hour each day signing autographs for people who write."

One of the most amazing things I've ever seen was in the Golf Channel "Arnie" documentary where they showed the storage room in Latrobe where ALL of his fan mail is kept. Everything is catalogued and notated, i.e. "sent autograph," etc. Think about that, @BitterYoungMatador2 , your letter is in there somewhere. Simply mindblowing.

 

[Chef2]

Got a little dusty when Fred Couples called in to the Golf Channel last night. He totally lost it.

Will be really interested to see what they do at Ryder Cup this weekend.

If it's me, everyone on both teams has a version of this bag.....

 

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Among the things that Arnie "invented" or elevated was sports marketing. He is the reason IMG exists.

He also was a real charitable and generous person. My sons were born in the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital in Orlando.

RIP.

A geneticist at that hospital changed everything for my wife and I, who were having problems conceiving. Forget sports, I say that building is his greatest legacy.

 

[swingline]

"Eventually, it would be time to move down to the veranda proper. Lunch. Tea and snacks later on. The whiskey drinking would start around 4:30. In the meantime, I would keep watching the numbers on the scoreboard and interpreting the roars from out on the golf course — a mammoth roar that lingered could only be Nicklaus, Watson, or Ballestros doing something wonderful. Birdie at two if it came from that direction. Birdie or eagle at fifteen if it came from another direction. A piddling roar was meaningless. Bobby Joe Grooves could have saved a par. Arnold Palmer could have hitched up his trousers"

--Dan Jenkins, "You Gotta Play Hurt"