Blacksheep
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Oh and I forgot to mention, they have set up a new website for Rob - it's called something like Remembering Rob Ford.com I think.
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Here's one positive story from back in the day. We had this new running back who transferred over from another school. Guy was an amazing athlete--best player on our team. But he'd be slipping and sliding all over the field. Rob asks him what's up, and he says his family was too poor to afford football cleats so he had to use this cheap old running shoes with no traction. Ford just hands him $100 out of his own pocket to go buy himself some real shoes. Then he starts running through the league's best defences almost single handedly with little help from us. So Rob definitely had his good side.
Rob relationship with his players, and his ward as a whole, was very much that of a fiefdom. He gave them scraps when they were hungry, while failing to activate, and often actively blocking, programs and services that would assist his peons in climbing out from hunger and poverty. If it didn't come from Rob, he didn't want them to have it, lest they become less dependent on him. That personal touch was a great way to build an army of blind peons who didn't/don't realize that there is another better way.
An open casket in a public space is unimaginable,
Keep talking Doug:
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Doug says that Rob and the family had wanted an open-casket viewing, but City staff persuaded them that wouldn't be good for a public place.
Nope. He was actually the sweetest thing in this infamous big ball of wackadoodle:
That Sun video was telling.The way Dougie repeated himself ("He kept going at it, going at it, going at it...") was vintage Rob. That "nothing" statement was sad, but it sounded more parrot-like than comprehension. Interesting too how he "runs" to the camera/press like they're his friend. Wonder what's really going on in that 9-year-old mind (and the ones around him).
No talk about fridge magnets yet.Barbaric Ford Family Cultural Practices. Politicizing a funeral. Tribalism.
So I wonder what the bill will be for the Ford Family after all the costs of disrupting traffic, paid mourners, etc. is tallied by the City. I for one do not want as a taxpayer to pay for a FFN political rally.Like if you didn't know better you'd think its the funeral for the founding father, not someone who smoked crack and acted in all manners of inappropriateness while slacking on the job - if he even bothered to show up at all.
Showing up on TV with flags for the funeral? And we're told those of us who are critical are disgusting and have no class? Seriously, love is hate, war is peace....
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They rebranded the "Get Well Rob Ford" page at http://getwellrobford.com/.Oh and I forgot to mention, they have set up a new website for Rob - it's called something like Remembering Rob Ford.com I think.
Okay, I'll call it: Messaging (think Trump and his "good old days" reminiscing, about when the cops would beat up protesters at political rallies))I'm not 100% sure that he meant that the flag he had was meant for the funeral, he was showing it to LeDrew in the context of "look what one of Rob's many fans gave me". He didn't specifically say that the flags would be available for the funeral or anything like that. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if they make an appearance.
When he got fired from the team (and then the whole TSB), and extended his generosity by inviting the players to a traditional season end party at his house.And don't forget the taking back the football gear donation thing awhile ago either.
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I hate the idea of Ford handing out money as a sign of generosity. Personally I feel it's tacky and crass, and an effort to buy someone's affection. Maybe that's all he knew how to do.
Suspect some privately arranged ones may no leak out?No casket selfies?