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 Post subject: Wayne Huizenga
PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:05 pm 
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Chicago guy, Blockbuster guy, garbage truck guy, Dolphins guy, Marlins guy, Panthers guy, dead guy.

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 Post subject: Re: Wayne Huizenga
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But in what order?

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I think the first Blockbuster Bowl pitted Penn State against Florida State. Nice debut! The next year, they had Alabama and Colorado! Then it started to suck and they changed the name.


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 Post subject: Re: Wayne Huizenga
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My grandpa made him and his family millionaires.

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 Post subject: Re: Wayne Huizenga
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Marlins have never lost a post-season series.


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 Post subject: Re: Wayne Huizenga
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Marlins have never lost a post-season series.


That's the way to do it. If you aren't going to win it all, don't even try.


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 Post subject: Re: Wayne Huizenga
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Hussra wrote:
Marlins have never lost a post-season series.


I think Loyola also has the best all-time winning percentage in the NCAA tournament.

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 Post subject: Re: Wayne Huizenga
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My grandpa made him and his family millionaires.


I am sure the backstory is pretty rich. You've alluded to it on occasion, but particulars allude me, and possibly should not be alluded to in this forum. Today I stumbled across this little excerpt...

...I can remember spending hours in the basement of a county clerk’s office outside Fort Lauderdale squinting at reams of microfilm. I was hunting for court records related to the billionaire sports team owner Wayne Huizenga, about whom I was compiling an unauthorized biography. I eventually came upon a 1961 civil suit filed by a man who claimed that a young Huizenga had showed up on his doorstep, selling a trash-hauling service. When the plaintiff demurred, Huizenga attacked his potential customer, causing broken sunglasses, abrasions on his face, and, most memorably, “permanent injury to the testicles and genital area as a result of grabbing and twisting by the defendant.” This turned out to be a rather neat summary of his modus operandi as a businessman....

https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/


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 Post subject: Re: Wayne Huizenga
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beni hanna wrote:
Seacrest wrote:
My grandpa made him and his family millionaires.


I am sure the backstory is pretty rich. You've alluded to it on occasion, but particulars allude me, and possibly should not be alluded to in this forum. Today I stumbled across this little excerpt...

...I can remember spending hours in the basement of a county clerk’s office outside Fort Lauderdale squinting at reams of microfilm. I was hunting for court records related to the billionaire sports team owner Wayne Huizenga, about whom I was compiling an unauthorized biography. I eventually came upon a 1961 civil suit filed by a man who claimed that a young Huizenga had showed up on his doorstep, selling a trash-hauling service. When the plaintiff demurred, Huizenga attacked his potential customer, causing broken sunglasses, abrasions on his face, and, most memorably, “permanent injury to the testicles and genital area as a result of grabbing and twisting by the defendant.” This turned out to be a rather neat summary of his modus operandi as a businessman....

https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/


There wasn't a Dutchman around that had the nerve to raise a hand to anyone from my family.

Partly out of respect, but most of it was related to fear.

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