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Bill Walsh, RIP

Sad to see the great coach passed away after a long illness with leukemia. He and his 49ers teams made me an American sports fan. As the Niners juggernaut rolled through the '84 season on the way to crushing the Dolphins in the SuperBowl I was drawn into the strange American game. Borrowed a couple of books from the library to learn the rules and after that it was every given Sunday. The man was The Genius not just on the field or in the playbook, but also with his work to bring in minority coaches. Besides, how many other football coaches would be qualified for a Stanford teaching gig?

And by the way, Ingmar Bergman also died recently. Also an artistic genius, but there's no emotional attachment there. Shows you where I lie on the culture-vulture scale, I guess.