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Old 04-25-2019, 05:52 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by rink23 View Post
Unfortunately Winfield's most memorable moment had the hardwood had to do with his fists rather than his ability to put a round ball through a hoop.

http://www.startribune.com/hoops-bra...ory/411419775/
Yeah, he was definitely on the wrong side of that one, defending his Gopher teammates. But he had to do what he had to do, of course; they were his teammates.

Wow, that video is tough to look at, not because it's that violent, though. Nobody was seriously hurt, even the Buckeye center whose head was stomped.

It's the guy helping him up and then kneeing him in the groin that is jaw-dropping and tough to take. Talk about cheap shots. What a jerk that guy was.

Yet (and I don't mean to derail this thread), boys grow into men and sometimes those men turn out to be wiser, much wiser, than you would have projected for them. Both of the principal Gophers in this incident were featured later in life by the Minnesota Star Tribune:

Overcoming fight's stigma drives Turner

Ex-Gopher Taylor resolved ugliness of his worst hour

In the latter story, the main perpetrator who had just passed away was mourned by . . . the Buckeye who got the knee! Apparently they had become friends. (And we read that he, too, was not entirely innocent, having elbowed a Gopher in the face earlier in the game.)

None of which is about Dave Winfield other than he was wailing on another Buckeye during the brawl. Imagine being on the receiving end of that beating.

Returning the thread to Mr. Winfield. Who is going to bring up the seagull story?
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