Mike Vaccaro
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🔮 — would you sign up for that?
🔮 Many stayed away, choosing to follow on the radio, or on this first-ever ballgame that would be televised coast to coast on both CBS and NBC.
🔮 Lou Gehrig was a quiet but powerful captain who may have done the job best once his body began to betray him.
🔮 This year, as bad as the NFC South looks, there is genuine angst that the division champ might only need a 7-10 or even a 6-11 record to squeak in.
🔮 They will be referenced for decades to come, longer, because they fell into a hole 14 games south of .500, they got their manager fired, and they were fixing to hold a Flushing-style fire sale at the deadline.
Then started to win.
🔮 Maybe if he were a shrinking violet.
🔮 This is the good stuff, the forever, the eternal, the can’t-ever-take-it-away from us: This is OG Anunoby, asked if he — like millions of other Knicks fans — would occasionally be scrolling his phone across the past few months and be happily interrupted by an Instagram post or a TikTok video replaying the magic of June 10, when he swooped from the sky to tip a ball into a basket.
🔮 It was 8:27 p.m. Monday when the collision happened, and maybe a minute later when the ESPN cameras slowed the ominous violence Zapruder-style to reveal the worrisome angle Jaxson Dart’s knee took after he was mauled by a couple of onrushing Rams linebackers, Byron Young getting him high, Josaiah Stewart hitting him low.
Hitting him in his knee.
🔮 He was also a gentleman, and exceedingly good company, and it was my privilege to call him a friend for the last 30 years.
The stories are what come flowing back in these sad hours, so many stories, all of them told in a way only Ernie could tell them, or involving Ernie in a way that only he could have made them turn out the way they did.
🔮 Maybe it was a little disconcerting hearing the random chants for David Stearns’ job, although you imagine that might be a regular part of the soundtrack of the 2027 baseball season, too.
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