December 26th
It's Boxing Day! This traditional "switching" holiday in the British commonwealth is a day when servants trade places with their masters, and officers trade roles with enlisted men.
Since I don't know much about that part of Boxing Day, I'm going to use it as an excuse to write to some of my favorite all time boxers, and people associated with the sport of boxing. (In fact, my grandmother was a professional boxer - she boxed apples and oranges for a produce company.)
Ruben "Hurricane" Carter
Lou Duva
Teddy Atlas
Bert Sugar
Bobby Czyz
Oscar DeLa Hoya
James "Buster" Douglas
Joe Frazier
Arturo Gatti
Andrew Golota
Marvin Hagler
Prince Naseem Hamed
Larry Holmes
Evander Holyfield
Lennox Lewis
Mike Tyson
Sugar Ray Leonard
Micky Ward
Roy Jones, Jr.
Jake LaMotta
Since I don't know much about that part of Boxing Day, I'm going to use it as an excuse to write to some of my favorite all time boxers, and people associated with the sport of boxing. (In fact, my grandmother was a professional boxer - she boxed apples and oranges for a produce company.)
Ruben "Hurricane" Carter
Lou Duva
Teddy Atlas
Bert Sugar
Bobby Czyz
Oscar DeLa Hoya
James "Buster" Douglas
Joe Frazier
Arturo Gatti
Andrew Golota
Marvin Hagler
Prince Naseem Hamed
Larry Holmes
Evander Holyfield
Lennox Lewis
Mike Tyson
Sugar Ray Leonard
Micky Ward
Roy Jones, Jr.
Jake LaMotta
posted by Chris Lucas | 2:04 AM
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When I worked at Davidson Instrument Panel, Textron, in Farmington, NH, I answered to a very interesting plant manager named J. Denny Houston. He suggested, years ago, that we try a thing which he called "Jeans Day", where management would go work on the assembly lines (there was no reciprocity, though, the line workers didn't take over management). The workers, of course, thought this was great fun, and engaged management in the dirtiest, smelliest, most tedious tasks, in part to give them a chance to boss the boss around, in part to show management how stupid the workers were not and in part to show management how awful working conditions were. It always proved to be great fun for everyone in the end, because management never really did anything they didn't want to (they did, after all, make up the rules as they went along), and they served up a great company picnic afterwards. It was really a great place to work, no matter who you were, until it grew larger and larger, and corporate takeovers eventually forced that assembly plant to close. It was really a bad thing in the end, because there were not a lot of other opportunities in the hills of New Hampshire. That's sort of what brought me to New Jersey, but that's another story! Once again, you entertain us Chris! I can't wait to see you in the new year!
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