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1. PAMELA ANDERSON - The all-Canadian girl (Anderson was born on the very day of Canada’s centennial, July 1, 1967) the natural brunette from Ladysmith was “discovered” at a Lions game when her image was caught by a roving video camera and projected on the stadium’s Jumbotron. She later appeared on the cover of Playboy and ultimately landed her signature role as C.J. Parker on the TV show Baywatch where, thanks to hair bleach and breast augmentation, Anderson became the personification of southern California babedom. In 2006, she received her deserved star on Canada’s Walk of Fame.

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2. NELSON SKALBANIA - The flamboyant real estate flipper from Vancouver (seen on the left) is best-known for signing 17-year-old Wayne Gretzky when he was owner of the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association. Over a span of 10 years, in the 1970s, Skalbania owned hotels, shopping centres, apartment buildings and sports teams, including the Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Alouettes, Vancouver Canadians, Memphis Rogues and Calgary Boomers. He was instrumental in the move of the Atlanta Flames to Calgary. His final foray into sports ownership came with the Lions in 1996, but Skalbania developed a case of the shorts and was forced to hand over control to a receiver after only six months.

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3. BILL COMRIE - At 19, after playing major junior with the Moose Jaw Canucks and Edmonton Oil Kings, Comrie decided to abandon his hockey career and join his father’s furniture business, creating what is now The Brick Warehouse Corporation. Having proven himself as an astute businessman, he thought he could be an astute sports owner. Three weeks after previous owner Murray Pezim declared bankruptcy in 1992, Cromie bought the Lions. Two years later, the team won a championship under the direction of head coach Dave Ritchie and general manager Eric Tillman when the Lions defeated the Baltimore Stallions in the first Canada vs. USA Grey Cup game. In March, 1996, however, wearied by the team’s chronic financial instability, Cromie sold out to a group of 10 local businessmen headed by Nelson Skalbania and Michael Jensen.

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4. DOUG FLUTIE - “America’s Midget” -- as he was dubbed by punk/rebel Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon -- Flutie first rose to prominence at Boston College, where his winning “Hail Mary” pass to Gerard Phelan in a 1984 game against overdog Miami is still considered one of greatest moments in Amerian sports history. When the NFL resisted the little quarterback’s scrambling, free-form playground style, Flutie fled to Canada. With the Lions in 1990, he was a big dog again, sparking an offence that led the CFL in numerous offensive categories. Flutie was voted the league’s most outstanding player in 1991. Unfortunately for Lions fans, he won MOP honours five more times and three Grey Cups in the livery of the Calgary Stampeders and Toronto Argonauts.

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5. WALLY BUONO - Like manna from heaven, the CFL’s second winningest coach dropped into the Lions laps at the end of the 2002 season when the bungling F Troop ownership/management duo of Michael Feterik and Fred Fateri chased Buono out of Calgary. After coaching the CFL’s team of the 1990s to six division titles and two Grey Cups in Cowtown, Buono has made the Lions the league’s pre-eminent team of the new millenium. With a 63-26-1 record, a Grey Cup championship and four straight Western Division pennants in five seasons in B.C., Buono, 58, is scheduled to overtake Don Matthews as the CFL’s winningest coach sometime next season. He is under contract to the Lions through 2010, after which time he might finally give in to wistful impulses and take a long-anticipated summer camping trip.

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6. ANNIS STUKUS - Nicknamed “The Loquacious Lithuanian”, the Toronto-born Stukus was one of three famed brothers -- Bill and Frank were the others -- who led to the Argonauts to Grey Cups in 1937 and ‘38. “Stuke” helped in the formation of the Edmonton Eskimos in 1949 and his vivacy, flair for outrageousness and promoti
onal genius made him a natural choice to help sell and promote the team as the Lions’ first head coach in 1954. In his latter years, as sports director of CFUN radio in Vancouver, Stuke was the eminence grise of local yarn-spinners. Before each Lions game, he would hold court, talk football and entertain his audience at Stuke’s Den in the lower concourse of B.C. Place. The CFL’s annual coaching award is named in his honour.

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7. CRAZY GEORGE - Before U.S. president George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq and seek out those elusive weapons of mass destruction, the “Crazy George” moniker was the exclusive preserve of George Henderson. Armed with a drum, leather lungs and energy to spare, he began his cheerleading career as a San Jose State University student in 1968 and quickly became a crazy-haired fixture at numerous pro sports events. George credits himself with inventing “the wave”, introduced at a 1981 American League championship series between the Yankees and Oakland A’s which eventually lapped up on Pacific shores at Lions home games. He’s been used as a secret weapon by the football team ever since.

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8. BOB ACKLES - He turns 70 in September, but the water boy who rose to team president has given no indication of shutting down his 55-year involvement with football until, perhaps, the Lions again reach their high-water mark of 30,000 season tickets. That was the number of pre-sold seats at B.C. Place in 1986 when Ackles was the team’s GM before leaving to join the NFL. Instrumental in the formation of the shortlived XFL, Ackles was heavily into painting and photography before Lions owner David Braley lured him out of retirement in 2002. Today, Ackles is consumed by efforts to re-establish the Lions as a high-profile entity and to turn back the encroachment of the NFL into Toronto, Canada’s corporate and media nerve centre.

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9. GEROY SIMON - In 2006, the slotback from Johnstown, Pa., became the first Lions receiver to win the CFL’s most outstanding player award since David Willliams turned the trick in 1988. Second all-time on the University of Maryland’s receiving charts, Simon should easily pass Jim Young as the Lions’ career leader in receiving yards this season. With 8,844 yards, the 32-year-old Simon is 404 behind Young who played 13 seasons and nearly 200 games for the Lions at four positions between 1967 and 1979. Simon also holds the Lions single-season receiving yards record of 1,750 set in 2004.

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10. DARREN FLUTIE - The Flutie Brothers - Doug and Darren - served as bookends when a TSN media panel put together the top 50 CFL players of all-time. Doug was No. 1; younger brother Darren, a receiver, came in at No. 50. Although Darren’s accomplishments were outshone by his brother, he enjoyed a memorable, 12-year Hall of Fame career in the CFL, beginning with the Lions in 1991. Though Doug left to join the Stampeders the following season, Darren stayed on to play four more seasons for the Lions. He set a team record of 111 catches and 1,731 yards in 1994. Flutie and quarterback Danny McManus -- who played with Darren on three different teams -- were voted the fourth-best QB-receiver duo all-time in the CFL’s Making the Connection poll.

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11. DAVID BRALEY - Late in 1996, with the Lions orphaned by Nelson Skalbania and his group and the CFL hanging on life support, Hamilton businessman David Braley rescued west coast football when the Vancouver corporate community was seized by a collective case of wallet-clutching. Two of the Lions’ five Grey Cups -- 2000 and 2006 -- have come under Braley’s stewardship. His willingness to withstand large financial hits kept Lions football going during the bleak years before the arrival of Bob Ackles in 2002 and Wally Buono a year later. Since ‘03, the Lions have never won fewer than 11 games and the present couldn’t be much better. B.C. has won four straight West Division pennants. The franchise is moving closer to the situation of the mid-1980s, when the Lions sold 30,000 season tickets and averaged more than 40,000 fans per game during the honeymoon phase of B.C. Place.

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12. DAVE DICKENSON - When the Lions signed free-agent quarterback Dave Dickenson in 2003, it added further lustre to the new regime of Bob Ackles and Wally Buono. Dickenson not only represented a fresh start to a fan base frustrated by the mercurial quarterbacking of Damon Allen; he was consistent and dynamic. In his first season in orange and black, Dickenson threw for 36 touchdowns and 5,496 yards, the latter total second only to Doug Flutie’s Lions club record of 6,619 (which is also a CFL record). Controversy followed him the rest of his career in B.C., however, with the emergence of Casey Printers as a rival and Dickenson’s repeated episodes with injury and post-concussion syndrome. In 2006, while limited to 13 games, Dickenson quarterbacked the Lions to their fifth Grey Cup with a 25-14 win over the Montreal Alouettes.

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13. LUI PASSAGLIA - Born in the same year -- 1954 -- in which the Lions arrived, no player has come to symbolize the franchise more than Passaglia, the all-time leading scorer in professional football. Over the course of 25 seasons, starting in 1976, Passaglia kicked 875 field goals, 1,045 converts, 309 singles and ranks as the CFL’s second-leading punter all-time behind Bob Cameron. In 1994, he kicked the winning field goal in the first-ever Canada / U.S. Grey Cup game to defeat the Baltimore Stallions 26-23 before 55,000-plus at B.C. Place. Passaglia capped his career with a 29-yard field goal in the final 1:25 to provide the winning edge as the Lions turned back the Montreal Alouettes in the 2000 Grey Cup. He scored two touchdowns in his career -- one in Passaglia’s first CFL game, on July 22, 1976; and one in his final regular-season game, on Nov. 4, 2000.

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14. JAMIE TARAS - Growing up in the small southern Ontario town of Acton, Jamie Taras saw himself as awkward and clumsy. He couldn’t imagine himself as a college football player at Western Ontario, never mind a stalwart in the CFL. Though he spent most of the 1987 university season on the sidelines, Taras was drafted by the Lions as a running back, then converted to the offensive line. He was named an all-star four times at two different positions and, in 1995, won the West Division’s most outstanding lineman award. By the time he retired in 2002, Taras had logged 16 seasons and was second only to Lui Passaglia in career games played with B.C. at 264. An outstanding motivational speaker, Taras replaced Passaglia as the team’s director of community relations last year.

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15. J.P. McCONNELL/TOM LARSCHEID - McConnell’s “hound-doggy face and baggy eyes” (Sun columnist Denny Boyd’s words) made him one of Vancouver’s most recognizable TV sportscasters in the 1980s, but it was J.P.’s work with colour man Tom Larscheid (left) that cemented their place in the Football Reporters Hall of Fame. The radio broadcasters made listening to Lions games as gripping as actually being there. McConnell delivered hard, wry, accurate play-by-play; Larscheid, his sidekick and a former Lions running back, crackled and cackled with the electricity of the moment. “Play-by-play is easy,” McConnell said. “Colour is hard. I couldn’t have done it without Tom.” Larscheid ended his involvement with Lions broadcasts in 2000. McConnell went into retirement in 2006 well after the team’s broadcast rights moved from CKNW to CKST.

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16. DAVE RITCHIE - Following an 0-8 start, the worst in team history, and a 3-15 campaign in 1992, new head coach Dave Ritchie and GM Eric Tillman were hired by first-year owner Bill Comrie to prop up a faltering franchise. Under Ritchie, the Lions improved to 10-8 in the 1993 season, with the promise of better things to come. Though the team lost four of its final six games after an 8-1-1 start, the ‘94 Lions won two-nailbiting playoff games against Edmonton and Calgary, setting up a home Grey Cup game against the Baltimore Stallions. “Pops” Ritchie’s boys delivered the franchise’s third championship with a 26-23 victory. The plain-speaking Ritchie, however, refused to play politics with ownership, a habit that got him fired after the ‘95 season when the Lions went 10-8 and were eliminated in the semi-finals. In 1999, Ritchie took over as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, adding to his reputation for turning around troubled football teams.

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17. BOB O’BILLOVICH - A former defensive back and backup quarterback with the Ottawa Rough Riders, “Obie” was the head coach of the Toronto Argonauts when they ruined the afternoon of Nov. 27, 1983 for the home team, in the first Grey Cup game ever played at B.C. Place. The Argos’ 18-17 victory over the Lions brought Toronto its first CFL championship in 31 years. O’Billovich later joined the Lions in midseason of 1990 as VP of football operations, GM and head coach. But after quarterback Doug Flutie’s move to Calgary, the Lions fell to 3-15 in ‘92 and Obie was gone, too. In his second go-round with the Lions as director of player personnel, O’Billovich was instrumental in recruiting building blocks such as Casey Printers, Cameron Wake, LaVar Glover and Jason Jimenez. He left to join the Hamilton Tiger-Cats as their GM last December.

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18. DAMON ALLEN - A sure-fire member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the 44-year-old grandfather reluctantly was forced into retirement by the Toronto Argonauts earlier this year after 22 seasons in the CFL -- seven of them with B.C., from 1996-2002. He was signed by the Lions after the failure Heisman Trophy Winner Andre Ware to ignite the offence. Allen’s five-highest single-season passing totals came after his 34th birthday, one of them in 1997 when he threw for 4,653 yards and 21 TDs, 10 of which landed in the hands of receiver Alfred Jackson, who became a CFL all-star. A lightning rod for fan frustration, however, Allen had the last laugh on Lions fans when the quarterbacked the Argos to a Grey Cup win over B.C. in 2004 and won the league’s most outstanding player award a year later.

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19. DON MATTHEWS - Matthews, now 68, left the CFL amid much controversy in 2006 when he stepped down as coach of the Montreal Alouettes for health reasons, leaving Wally Buono as the dean of the coaching fraternity. Buono heads into the 2008 season with 216 career wins, 15 behind Matthews whose first CFL head coaching assignment was with the Lions in 1983, the year B.C. Place opened. As the replacement for the irascible Vic Rapp, Matthews guided the Lions to an 11-5 record and the team’s first West Division pennant since 1964. In Matthews’ third season, 1985, the Lions went 13-3 and won the franchise’s second Grey Cup with a 37-24 win over Hamilton. Matthews was fired two years later by GM Joe Galat at the end of a three-game losing streak.

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20. MERVYN FERNANDEZ - “Swervin Mervyn” was the first Lions player to win the league’s most outstanding player award -- in 1985 -- when he had 95 catches for 1,727 yards and 15 touchdowns in the same year the team won its second Grey Cup. That team, which had nine players on the West Division all-stars and six voted to the all-CFL team, was inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 2000. Fernandez led the Lions in receiving in each of the five seasons he played in Vancouver before heeding the siren call of the NFL and Los Angeles Raiders boss Al Davis. Fernandez spent six more seasons with the Raiders, beginning in 1986. His 3,764 career receiving yards are eighth all-time on the Raiders list, ahead of black and silver greats such as Art Powell and Pro Football Hall of Famer Dave Casper.

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21. AL WILSON - Centre Al “Dirt” Wilson’s jersey No. 52 is one of eight numbers retired by the Lions. With 233 career games played, he ranks third in that department behind Lui Passaglia and Jamie Taras. Like them, Wilson spent his entire 15-year career with B.C. His finest years came at Empire Stadium, where he played from 1972-82 and made CFL all-star seven times. An iron horse, Wilson played in 167 consecutive games during one stretch and was named the league’s most outstanding lineman in 1977. He played four seasons in the dome and retired in 1986, after which his inductions into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame and the Lions Wall of Fame were a foregone conclusion.

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22. ROY DEWALT - Rather than submit to conversion to a running back with the Cleveland Browns, Dewalt came north in 1980 to play his natural quarterback position with the Lions. After being named the team’s starting quarterback in 1983, the year the Lions moved into B.C. Place, Dewalt led the team to a Grey Cup win over Hamilton in 1985, the first of back-to-back seasons in which he threw for more than 4,000 yards. During the five seasons that Dewalt and receiver Mervyn Fernandez played together, they combined for 284 receptiions, 4,923 yards and 43 touchdowns. Dewalt-to-Fernandez was the natural choice to represent B.C. in the CFL’s Making The Connection on-line poll to pick the CFL’s greatest quarterback-receiver combination.

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23. JAMES PARKER - “Quick” Parker joined the Edmonton Eskimos from Wake Forest University in 1980, twice winning all-CFL honours before his jump to B.C. in 1983. Compact and relentless, Parker continued his dominance at rush end by repeating as the CFL’s most outstanding defensive lineman in 1984, ‘85 and ‘86, his glory years with the Lions. In ‘84, Parker recorded 26.5 sacks, which remains a league record. He was with the Lions until 1989 and closed out his career in 1991 with the Toronto Argonauts. Inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2001, Parker was voted in at No. 21 when TSN named its Top 50 CFL players of all-time during Grey Cup week in 2006.

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24. MURRAY PEZIM - Pezim is one of 120 members inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, though he was never a candidate for inclusion in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. Still, the butcher turned gold mining promoter was willing to strip and wave a huge orange mitten that looked like a Lions paw to promote his team. It was like having Don Rickles in the owner’s suite. He signed ex-New York Giants defensive end Mark Gastineau to become a Lions superstar and promoted him as the next heavyweight boxing champion. The Pez was wrong about that one, but he did get it right by realizing the potential box office appeal of Doug Flutie. Las Vegas was Pezim’s natural environment, not the CFL. Tired of the circus act, the league revoked Pezim’s ownership and took control of the team on Aug. 27, 1992 after Pezim refused to pay off debts and creditors.

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25. SEAN MILLINGTON - At Carson Graham secondary school, Millington was a failure at basketball, so somebody suggested he try football. Inspired move. The “Diesel”, as the fullback came to be known, played 12 seasons in the CFL, mostly with B.C., after the Simon Fraser grad became the No. 1 pick in the 1990 CFL draft. Millington holds both the Lions (212 yards) and Edmonton Eskimos (225 yards) single-game rushing records, and his 66 rushing TDs are the most by any player in Lions history. A two-time Grey Cup champion with B.C., Millington won the CFL’s most outstanding Canadian award in 1997 and again in 2000. Telegenic and kinetic, he later joined the CFL on CBC broadcast panel and has taken on supporting roles in movies and television.

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I think that's a picture of Tony Simmons instead of Geroy Simon
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Ouch on the picture of "Geroy".

Just seeing Damon Allen up there starts getting the blood boiling. If anything, I would describe Damon's tenure in BC, outside of three weeks in 2000 as utterly forgettable.

I think Carl Kidd is missing from this list as well if we're going by personalities.
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I would agree that Carl Kidd should be on that list too........don't know how they left Dirty 30 Jim Young off of there or how Damon Allen got on there.

Great pic of Tony Simmons....maybe Geroy has copyrighted the Superman pose :s: ..lol.
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In these kinds of lists, there's always bound to be those who are left out. In this case, the selections were constrained to 25. Remember that when it comes to judging personalities, then such a selection would be one for better or for worst, and by no means should it be the best person.

Therefore, I agree with most of these selections as it's only fair that some people that were for worst should be listed as well. And I know very well a lot of you have stated that Damon Allen was the most frustrated player so if that's the case, then of course Allen should be listed. I noticed that all four private owners were listed while only two coaches were listed.

Aside from Annis Stukus, it seems like the other selections were those who were involved at least by 1980's. I think that is understandable because personalities depend all on media coverage, and it's fair to say that before the 1980's, media coverage was very limited to spread such information.

Here are some honourable mentions:

1) Joe Kapp and Jim Young: Good as players in the 1960's and 1970's, but bad as managers in 1990.

2) Norm Fieldgate: Perhaps the best alumni as representative for the 50's and 60's, but not so much memorable in management either.

3) Mark Washington and Steve Hardin - The Tom Pate Award should show their good personalities.

4) Tyrone Crews and Kevin Konar - Well known locals.

5) Danny Barrett - also a Tom Pate Award, but perhaps the most frustrating and disappointment given that it didn't replace Doug Flutie.
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Ty Crews for sure, what a great guy and he was an awesome player!
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Big Time wrote: I think Carl Kidd is missing from this list as well if we're going by personalities.
:whs:

It is a neat list, you really appreciate some of the people that have been part of a Lions game over the decades.
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Should not that be 26 BC Lions Personalities We Can't Forget?

I'm pretty sure Pamela Anderson's "personalities" count as two.
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Another unforgettable oldie but goodie with tons of personality is Ray Nettles. Nettles came to the Lions in 1972 out of the U of Tennessee and despite his on-field skill and tenacity, he was very much a free spirit befitting a young man in the 70s. Sporting his trademark moustache and long hair, the future Hall of Famer (2004) proved to be a handful, riding around town helmetless on his chopper with its beer-keg gas tank, his fringed leather jacket fluttering in the breeze. As much as the club wanted him to resort to more traditional transportation, everyone was both amazed and relieved the day #51 literally landed on his feet after t-boning and somersaulting over a car that hadn't seen him coming. :yahoo:
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That was crap

who made it up?
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The print version of this does have the right photo for Simon.

It's their online photo gallery section that screwed up. Amazingly, they also have a photo gallery from last week's pre-season game that includes a photo of "Jeroy Simon"

I guess you have to give them a break being it's one of the Lions more obscure players. :bang: :sigh:
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Lions4ever wrote:Should not that be 26 BC Lions Personalities We Can't Forget?

I'm pretty sure Pamela Anderson's "personalities" count as two.
3. The originals count as one, and the twins were store bought.
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Decent list with the exception of Pamela Anderson. This should be about the Lions franchise, not about somebody who happened to get noticed at one of their games.

Where is Willie Fleming?
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No Dave Skrein ?

No Mark Gastineau ? :wink:

No Rudy Reschke ? :wink:
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Tom Larschied :shock: is on the list, but Jim Young and Willie Fleming are not???

Just plain wrong. :wag:
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