AlphaLackey
Registered User
I know we've been discussing that he's been expected to retire, but now that the Jets made it official, I'd like to kick off our appreciation thread. Yes, in part because I was routinely hard on the man for some of his decisions, but there's no doubt that he helped us develop in his time here.
There's a scene near the beginning of "Network", when Howard Beale go off the deep end during his retirement announcement, and his friend and supervisor Max Schumacher, who is equal parts exasperated and disillusioned, just kinda throws his hands up in the air about it, and says "Leave him on. If this is how he wants to go out, this is how he goes out."
I thought of that scene at the start of the third period in game five, when Bowness gave up on the lineup changes and went right back to what was surely his period in the third. Bowness has indeed been a "grand old Mandarin" of coaching, and if that's how he wanted to go out, that's fine. He's deserved that much.
So, thank you Rick, I'm glad you got to go out on your terms, we appreciate very much what you've done to help repair this damn team, and I hope we reward your efforts as soon as possible down the road.
There's a scene near the beginning of "Network", when Howard Beale go off the deep end during his retirement announcement, and his friend and supervisor Max Schumacher, who is equal parts exasperated and disillusioned, just kinda throws his hands up in the air about it, and says "Leave him on. If this is how he wants to go out, this is how he goes out."
I thought of that scene at the start of the third period in game five, when Bowness gave up on the lineup changes and went right back to what was surely his period in the third. Bowness has indeed been a "grand old Mandarin" of coaching, and if that's how he wanted to go out, that's fine. He's deserved that much.
So, thank you Rick, I'm glad you got to go out on your terms, we appreciate very much what you've done to help repair this damn team, and I hope we reward your efforts as soon as possible down the road.