The Video That Keeps On Giving

Yesterday SLAM!’s treasure hunter Lang e-mailed Celtics coach Doc Rivers about his brilliant performance in The Greatest Internet Video Of All-Time. Today, Coach “Stevie Ray” Rivers responds:

FROM: Doc Rivers
SUBJECT: Forever Uncool

Just when I had my kids convinced that their Dad was cool, they discover that video. They loved it. They’re showing all their friends. They have also informed me not to bring up the words hip or cool ever again.
– Doc

Can I say it? I LOVE THE INTERNET!

Doc Rivers Responds [The Links]
The Greatest Internet Video Of All-Time [The Links]
Wanted: Atlanta’s Air Force Video [The Basketball Jones]

(Update: I just received a fantastic e-mail from ClipperBlog.com guru Kevin Arnovitz. Now, I didn’t ask for his permission per se, but I don’t care, I’ve got to post this beauty:

Skeets: I grew up a Hawks season ticket holder at the Omni. Aisle 116, about 15 rows up. AAF was my formative basketball experience; Tree Rollins and Kevin Willis my basketball Yetis.

I had the “Atlanta’s Air Force” 45, which I bought at the old Turtle’s Records & Tapes on Roswell Road. It would air mercilessly on Channel 46 during the big playoff drive of 1985-1986 and 1986-1987. It became the lead-in music for John Sterling on WSB-Radio (”Welcome South, Brother”), then the voice of the Atlanta Hawks (and an admirable homer; i.e., “Parish in the lane. He walks, walks again, then lays it up and in.”)

So, yeah, before there was Lil John & the East Side Boyz and Bone Crusher, there was Tom Gross & the Varsity, who played a number of Bar Mitzvahs in the Atlanta area, though he wasn’t so formidable as the “Black Rabbi” — a breakdancing coach and longtime Atlanta fixture on the Bar Mitzvah “kids party” circuit, whose clientele included children of Atlanta’s Jewish upper crust.

Wow. You send in an e-mail containing the words “Kevin Willis”, “Yeti”, and “The Black Rabbi”, and well… it’s going to be posted on here ASAP. Thanks for the laugh, Kevin.)

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By J.E. Skeets at 12:32 pm on 09.21.2006 — Tags: Coaches, Hawks, Celtics, Media

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6 Responses to “The Video That Keeps On Giving”

  1. Unsilent Majority at 1:09 pm on 09.21.2006

    oh my god i’m an idiot! i saw jeremiah (his son at georgetown) yesterday and i didn’t even think to say something.

  2. Howie aka Hype at 1:29 pm on 09.21.2006

    UM- next time, do the boogey dance and see if he knows. No words necessary.

    And Skeets, this was really something magical… I cannot wait for the next Skeets-influenced phenomenon of my lifetime.

  3. J.E. Skeets at 1:48 pm on 09.21.2006

    Howie: I may have planted the seed, but Lang brought the sunshine … and the water … and the photosynthesis powers …

  4. Lance at 3:24 pm on 09.21.2006

    Props for working “photosynthesis” into a joke. Now rhyme with it.

  5. The Basketball Jones » Quickies: The Divine Julius at 1:56 pm on 09.22.2006

    […] Some quick links and thoughts while trying to book The Black Rabbi … […]

  6. JackieB at 3:42 pm on 01.09.2007

    Does anyone know how to get in touch with “The Black Rabbi”?

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