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OT: Jeff Gordon

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Congrats on your retirement! I always enjoyed your writing and witticism.

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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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How time flies. BTW, down here in the South references to "Jeff Gordon" are interpreted quite differently.
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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Good Luck in retirement. Your writing and sense of humor will be missed.
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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guy caught a lot of unnecessary flak from folks. always appreciated his humor and coverage of the blues
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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moose-and-squirrel wrote: 24 Sep 2025 09:54 am guy caught a lot of unnecessary flak from folks. always appreciated his humor and coverage of the blues
Agreed. He always seemed willing to add to the amount of Blues coverage, at a time when internet blogs didn't exist to sate our appetites for increased coverage.
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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Army's Mom wrote: 24 Sep 2025 10:00 am
moose-and-squirrel wrote: 24 Sep 2025 09:54 am guy caught a lot of unnecessary flak from folks. always appreciated his humor and coverage of the blues
Agreed. He always seemed willing to add to the amount of Blues coverage, at a time when internet blogs didn't exist to sate our appetites for increased coverage.
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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Ditto to previous comments!

Gordon was always quite funny and smart.
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DawgDad wrote: 24 Sep 2025 09:48 am How time flies. BTW, down here in the South references to "Jeff Gordon" are interpreted quite differently.
He would refer to him as “The other Jeff Gordon” lol
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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One way he impacted me is I always say "[Name of State], we hardly knew ye" whenever I cross a state border. I would do it when I was walking too. Did it just last year when I drove a UHaul* north out of California with the last of our stuff



*(this website literally refuses to let you type this without changing it to Haul unless you also click an X to prove you know what you are doing)
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seattleblue wrote: 24 Sep 2025 10:48 am One way he impacted me is I always say "[Name of State], we hardly knew ye" whenever I cross a state border. I would do it when I was walking too. Did it just last year when I drove a UHaul* north out of California with the last of our stuff



*(this website literally refuses to let you type this without changing it to Haul unless you also click an X to prove you know what you are doing)
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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I enjoyed his work over the years. And his character on film too.

I'm sure retirement is welcome but kind of a shame some of these guys can't do a piece from time to time afterwards....if they were so inclined.
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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Now he can focus on his NASCAR career full time.
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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Gordo pushed hockey in this town when very few in the media would. There were times where the Blues would be in a tight playoff race and their game story would be on the bottom of the front sports page while the P-D’s top story was focused on who was going to fill the 25th spot on the Cards’ roster with a meaningless Spring Training game getting more coverage as well.

Good luck in retirement, Jeff, well earned :D
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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Back to the Antlers for you Jeff!
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hotrivets wrote: 25 Sep 2025 08:11 am Back to the Antlers for you Jeff!
Not back. Once an Antler always an Antler! :lol:
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Re: OT: Jeff Gordon

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Met Jeff about 30 years ago at Walden’s Books at Mid Rivers mall sitting at a table. I recognized him at talked some Blues hockey. A woman leaned over and told him someone knew who you are. In his Monday column there was a meet and greet at Walden’s with Jeff Gordon and people came to meet the NASCAR driver and found a middle aged man.
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