Something truly astounding happened in 1993: Bob Greene managed to double his output of columns about Michael Jordan and the Bulls, a feat akin to multiplying infinity.
The question now, of course, is how Greene will handle Jordan’s retirement. He is surely the hardest-hit Chicagoan–Jerry Reinsdorf having cagily sold his season tickets just before Jordan’s announcement. Will Greene let his obsession with Jordan die a natural death, or will he push it into an unholy, vampirish afterlife with a spate of retirement columns? Tune in again next year.
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October 17: Bob relates a conversation with a “friend” who wants to buy tapes of every single Bulls game Michael played–all 778 of them–and watch a game a night, every night, to cure his despair over Jordan’s retirement. Could this “friend” wear a bad toupee and take up a press seat at Bulls games?
Fawning Quote: “All the memories in the Stadium; all the incandescent nights that Jordan provided for all of us. . . . He was so wealthy he never needed to make another penny; he was so famous he never needed to hear another cheer; he was so skilled he never needed to doubt his abilities for another second.”
June 28: Bob scoops the competition when he reports that Nevada air-traffic controller Mike Wurst would like to offer Michael his three-bedroom home for a two-week vacation.
Fawning Quote: “Few of the rest of us can understand what it must be like to look in the mirror each morning and see not only your face looking back, but at the same time a carefully cultivated commercial property that on a given day has a given dollar value in the business centers of the world, rising and falling like the stock market based upon the affection the planet’s population currently feels like granting you.”
