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NFT: R.I.P. golfer Arnold Palmer

Anakim : 9/25/2016 8:25 pm
Dead at the age of 87. R.I.P.


One of the greatest!
oh, wow  
Bill in UT : 9/25/2016 8:27 pm : link
A legend. RIP, Arnie
A true legend  
steve in ky : 9/25/2016 8:27 pm : link
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This year has been shit  
Les in TO : 9/25/2016 8:27 pm : link
Rip to another legend
R.I.P King.  
section125 : 9/25/2016 8:28 pm : link
He looked pretty bad since the Master's. Seemed to have been ill within the past year.

Changed golf.
Aww...  
Chris in Philly : 9/25/2016 8:28 pm : link
That's a shame. Wonderful man.
Wow  
Jim in Fairfax : 9/25/2016 8:28 pm : link
Great ambassador of golf. Will be missed.
Fernandez and Arnold in the same day  
illmatic : 9/25/2016 8:30 pm : link
Today sucks ass.
not on cnn  
markky : 9/25/2016 8:31 pm : link
or golf.com yet

Wow .. R.I.P  
EricJ : 9/25/2016 8:31 pm : link
will have a lemonade and iced tea in your honor
is on twitter  
markky : 9/25/2016 8:32 pm : link
though
RIP  
old man : 9/25/2016 8:32 pm : link
Arnie, and Jose.
What a cluster of a day.
He  
Peter from NH (formerly CT) : 9/25/2016 8:34 pm : link
was the best. Made golf a big sport by the force of his personality.
That Wake Forest  
lugnut : 9/25/2016 8:35 pm : link
campus is gonna be draped in black. He's a demi-god of an alum. By all reports a genuinely great guy. RIP.
That's sad  
ChathamMark : 9/25/2016 8:36 pm : link
So iconic. Arnold Palmer was golf. Class act.
RIP I love his drink  
pjcas18 : 9/25/2016 8:36 pm : link
and in case you're wondering it's not a 50/50 mix of lemonade and iced tea.
He was singularly the man who brought ...  
richynyc : 9/25/2016 8:45 pm : link
...golf into the modern era and was responsible for popularizing it. Not Jack, Gary, Sam, Ben...it was Arnie's Army that brought golf into the mainstream and made it a sport worthy of television time, and the resultant increasingly big purses. Before Arnie, touring pros struggled from city to city, tournament, with even the top pros often sleeping in their cars because they hadn't hustled enough money from the locals on the tour stop in the non-tournament days to afford even a cheap hotel room.

I know it sounds incredible to you youngun's but 'tis true.

And Arn
And Arnie's wife...  
richynyc : 9/25/2016 8:47 pm : link
..was a famous interviewee by Johnie Carson on the Tonight Show about how she helped him prepare his equipment for a tournament. One can look it up...
Is this legit?  
The_Boss : 9/25/2016 8:48 pm : link
I'm looking at the Golf Channel and there's nothing about this.
RIP to Arnie  
Mason : 9/25/2016 8:49 pm : link
Man 2016 has been a bad year for losing legends.
RE: Is this legit?  
The_Boss : 9/25/2016 8:50 pm : link
In comment 13142255 The_Boss said:
Quote:
I'm looking at the Golf Channel and there's nothing about this.


It's now on Fox News. So yes, sadly, it's legit.
RE: Is this legit?  
Mason : 9/25/2016 8:50 pm : link
In comment 13142255 The_Boss said:
Quote:
I'm looking at the Golf Channel and there's nothing about this.


It's on Golf Digest's twitter feed.
Fox News  
section125 : 9/25/2016 8:52 pm : link
now reporting The King has died...from multiple sources.
He  
AcidTest : 9/25/2016 8:53 pm : link
transformed the sport. His army marches on. RIP. God bless.
RIP  
LatHarv83 : 9/25/2016 8:53 pm : link
Over the last couple of years we've been inundated with those commercials for that drug that he and Chris Bosh are pushing, and now in the same week Palmer dies and it looks like Bosh can't play anymore. I wonder if we've seen the last of those awkward spots....

By the way, I know this is a weird question, but what's the etiquette on that? Would it be considered inappropriate if they kept airing commercials with a deceased person as the pitchman?
Sad to hear. A hero, and a guy who never forgot the fans.  
yatqb : 9/25/2016 8:54 pm : link
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Wtf  
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy : 9/25/2016 8:55 pm : link
I was just watching the Simpsons 30 mins ago for a bit and they made an Arnold Palmer joke about the drink. It was just an oddly written joke that just felt weird. And now I read this. Weird just weird.

RIP to a legend. Before my time but he seemed like the definition of class.
.  
Danny Kanell : 9/25/2016 8:55 pm : link
Damn. This is a big one. RIP to a true legend.
he didn't look well  
gidiefor : Mod : 9/25/2016 8:56 pm : link
at all this year -- Sorry to hear of his passing -- truly one of the greats!
RE: RIP  
Jim in Fairfax : 9/25/2016 8:59 pm : link
In comment 13142267 LatHarv83 said:
Quote:
Over the last couple of years we've been inundated with those commercials for that drug that he and Chris Bosh are pushing, and now in the same week Palmer dies and it looks like Bosh can't play anymore. I wonder if we've seen the last of those awkward spots....

By the way, I know this is a weird question, but what's the etiquette on that? Would it be considered inappropriate if they kept airing commercials with a deceased person as the pitchman?

Not sure you'd want your target viewers thinking about death when pushing your drug. Especially while they're rattling off the long list of potential side effects.
RE: RE: RIP  
LatHarv83 : 9/25/2016 9:02 pm : link
In comment 13142292 Jim in Fairfax said:
Quote:
In comment 13142267 LatHarv83 said:


Quote:


Over the last couple of years we've been inundated with those commercials for that drug that he and Chris Bosh are pushing, and now in the same week Palmer dies and it looks like Bosh can't play anymore. I wonder if we've seen the last of those awkward spots....

By the way, I know this is a weird question, but what's the etiquette on that? Would it be considered inappropriate if they kept airing commercials with a deceased person as the pitchman?


Not sure you'd want your target viewers thinking about death when pushing your drug. Especially while they're rattling off the long list of potential side effects.


True. Palmer was up there in age though so it was going to happen sooner or later. I was thinking more along the lines of it just being inappropriate. Either way I think we've seen the last of those commercials. Kevin Nealon needs to find a new crew to have awkward banter with on golf courses.
Just a terrible sports day  
dpinzow : 9/25/2016 9:04 pm : link
RIP Arnie
87 years old and was still one of the biggest earners in sports.  
Crispino : 9/25/2016 9:29 pm : link
Met him a couple of times at tournaments. Just a humble, yet charismatic figure. RIP, Arnie.
Such sad news ...  
Stufftherun : 9/25/2016 9:35 pm : link
A true professional in every sense of the word.
Arnie  
bitterblue : 9/25/2016 9:58 pm : link
He gave me his golf ball after one of his rounds at the Colonial NIT back in the 60's. He was really a nice guy for being such a legend.
Can still see him  
Still a Sam Huff fan : 9/25/2016 11:10 pm : link
Walking up to the eighteenth green, hitch up his trousers, toss away his cigarette and wave to his army. RIP Arnie
RE: And Arnie's wife...  
short lease : 9/25/2016 11:25 pm : link
In comment 13142253 richynyc said:
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..was a famous interviewee by Johnie Carson on the Tonight Show about how she helped him prepare his equipment for a tournament. One can look it up...


Without looking it up ... I am betting she answered (in all innocence) ... that she "washes his balls". Then Carson looks into the camera with one of those looks of his. : )

Worked every time ...


RIP Mr. Palmer.
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