"Finally, payback for what Christian Laettner did to us."
(Referring to the legendary 1990 east regional final during the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and Laettner's buzzer-beater that sent Duke beating University of Connecticut by one point in overtime.)
Congrats UConn. This was a legendary game too, and you played amazing. I was rooting for Duke but I wanted to see a good game more than anything, no matter who was competing. You deserve this win.
Best of wishes going on into the Final Four.
2 comments:
Are you kidding?? Laettner was trash. Good player but crude and rude in every other way. Insulting and stomping on opponents. He was a poor man's Larry Bird and at least Bird knew to stop with his mouth. Laettner deserved the hate he got.
I posted much the same as this lil' write up on Facebook and got jumped flunky by a friend who argued... and I have to agree with her... that Laettner kind of deserved some of the hate. I'd clean forgotten about the stomping incident.
Dang. Suddenly I feel old :-/ Then again that was 34 years ago.
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