Meadowlark Lemon passed away today. He was 83.
I remember when I was a kid we all got the impression that the Harlem Globetrotters were the greatest, most talented basketball team in the world. This was obvious to me. You didn't see the Celtics or the Knicks landing their own Saturday Morning cartoon shows! The Globetrotters were so talented they could win games while doing non-stop stunts and trick shots all the way. They ran roughshod over the competition with an almost scornful ease.
Later, I felt betrayed. But I blamed management and the media hush-up, not the players. I don't feel as though Meadowlark Lemon ever deceived me. He was doing his job, which was a job that was kind of like being Santa Claus, really.
In retrospect, finding out the truth about the Globetrotters probably eased the blow that fell years later, when I finally started to have my doubts about Professional Wrestling.
Requiascat in pace, Meadowlark.
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The news had me all confused today briefly because I read about Meadowlark's passing and then saw a friend post on Facebook "RIP Lemmy" with a link to Motörhead's Killed By Death video clip, which seemed a bit, not so much as insensitive to the Globetrotter, just very non sequitur. Until I realised my friend meant Kilmister.
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