Originally Posted by redietz View Post
I liked your columns, Rob. I probably read roughly a third of them, being as I was in LV about a hundred days out of the year. I didn't find it out of place in GT, as there were also keno columns and photos of girls in bikinis. It's a shame people, as you say, wise up. All this internet info has pretty much stamped out the credibility of alien abductions, astrologers picking football games, keno strategists, and martingale vp players with Rube Goldberg systems.

Ah, for the good old days. I don't think your columns tore me up, but I am tearing up as I think of the naivete of times past. Do you know when USA Today first published, it had two full pages of Friday ads from sports services claiming records like 93-4 and 104-12 against the spread? USA Today eventually wised up. It's a shame GT also wised up vis-a-vis your columns. Who knows? Maybe some of their advertisers got buried using your front page strategy and complained. The only reason USA Today dropped the nonsensical sports service ads was that they got flooded with complaints.

Those were great days. Civilians didn't know nothin' about nothin', eh? Now, when somebody claims to be "the world's greatest vp player," folks want numbers. They want math. It's a damned shame.
I left Rob's book in an outhouse. When I came back most of the pages were ripped out. So I ripped a few more out myself.