He really understands the issues. He's a real Renaissance man.

He'd perked the campaign plane or the campaign bus up a whole lot, he'd come out and say, had hey, weird stuff's going to happen, Hunter is here,

He was doing this gonzo journalism, which meant 'it's the way I see it -- and if the facts get in the way, well, we'll get rid of the facts ... ' He had a lot of fun with it and he'd liven up the bus or the airplane and we were always kind of glad to see him I think.

He was not a stupid man. He was managed by reasonably clever people who understood his value. But he was a figure in Quebec society of such eminence that you couldn't avoid using him politically. Much as we use (Wayne) Gretzky. No less or no more.

I think we kind of let up defensively. The first quarter we played full man-to-man. The guys maybe got a little tired defensively.

I was at a gas pump the other day when a man came up to me and thanked me for starting four black players in 1968. He remembered Bill Warner, Walt McKinney and Eddie Myers. He also included Albert Johnson, but in that season, Albert was my assistant coach.