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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (81452)	6/6/2000 11:37:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeets, As you say, different strokes for different folks. For the most part, to me, the NBA looks like a bunch of giraffes in a small cage with skinny gangly legs going every which way. If Shaq could bend his knees, he would only look 6'9" sometimes. <g> I will say that not everyone is in sports just for the money. Take those silly strong man competitions where they pull planes and stuff like that. Any of these guys would be a real asset to WCW and the WWF, but few ever show up there. The ones who do, like Mark Henry and Ted Arcidi, make much more money in one year than they'll ever make placing stones on top of a pillar. You have to think that maybe they like doing what they are doing more than cashing in to do something they don't like. I know that before his car accident, Manfred Hoeberl had seven figure contract offers from both organizations, and he just laughed them off. Though he did take some cash to show up at a few body building Drugathons to make the "Mr.s" look tiny in comparison. <g>