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player ready...Asking a hockey player for an opinion is as futile as asking a hockey player to chew your meat. So, hereabouts and in Canada as well, no one much bothers.
Take Bobby Hull, but never seriously.
Hull managed a perfectly laudable career whacking pucks and forecheckers around Chicago, Winnipeg and other places.
Hull was a great player and a substantial sire, leaving not only his legacy on the ice but son Brett, as well. Which will be the greater contribution remains to be seen.
There is no record of anyone once inquiring after Hull’s anthropological conclusions, such as, oh, genetic breeding or the incremental increase of racial populations.
This is an unforgivable lapse in the obligation of communicating the whole athlete to the public, or, as Cubs manager Jim Riggleman might put it, “digging things up.”
It just never occurred to anybody to wonder if Hull had an opinion about Adolf Hitler, or one that varied from the popular view, and even if he did, why would anyone care?
This must fall under the Marge Schott section of journalistic exploration: When in doubt, ask about Nazis.
Hull himself had to go all the way to Russia to find someone who wanted to know these things. An English-language newspaper, the Moscow Times, quoted Hull as saying lots of things he says he did not say.
In fact, through his attorney, Hull is outraged that a “feckless and irresponsible reporter” would spread “falsehoods” about him.
It is harder to believe that Hull ever said “feckless” or “falsehoods,” than what he was said to have said.
He is supposed to have complained of the Canadian government being too socialist and giving away too much to lazy people. And how is that a problem? He could run for office on that platform.
Hull also was quoted as saying, “Hitler had some good ideas, but went a little bit too far.” This is a serious and eerie echo of the sentiment that got the aforementioned Mrs. Schott excluded from active ownership of the Cincinnati Reds.
To be credible, both Hull and Schott would have to have a whopping difficulty with distances. A bit too far? Tierra del Fuego would be, using their measurements, next door.
In his rebuttal, Hull identifies Hitler as “the most evil and despicable person who ever lived,” and remember, Hull played for Bill Wirtz.
Genetic breeding? Hull is reportedly for it.
Jimmy the Greek, it might be recalled, once tried to explain running backs and sprinters from a similar point of view, concluding that selective coupling had produced the modern Heisman candidate.
More recently, Green Bay defensive end Reggie White marveled at the exclusive attributes of ethnic grouping, stealth in Indians, for example.
Hull was not pressed, apparently, for so much detail, but it is not hard to imagine Hull seeing merit in the idea. Or agree at least that the next great stick-handling center could be found in a petri dish.
Hull is a farmer’s son and a cattle breeder; as such he would come by such notions naturally. And there is the overwhelming evidence of his own progeny as well as Archie Manning’s and Ken Griffey’s, not to mention all those Borgias and Wyeths.
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As for Hull’s reported racist observation that the black population of the United States was growing too quickly, well, anyone who has been paying attention knows that the fastest growing segment of society is rollerbladers.