Mike Vaccaro shares his father’s sports rules in honor of Father’s Day on Sunday.
In a few weeks he will be gone 20 years, which is kind of remarkable because I hear my father’s voice, still, with the same distinct Queens-flavored eloquence as always. Father’s Day, naturally, makes that wonderful voice sound, and resound, ever clearer, with ever more clarity.
“Fine,” he said. “But then I get to pick the band to play their songs. And I’m going to go with my band — Tony Bennett, Buddy Rich, Doc Severinsen, Wes Montgomery — over their band.”But sports was No. 1, which probably comes as no surprise. And though our back-and-forths were wonderful, what sticks with me were these five favored subjects. He never wrote them down, and I wasn’t smart enough to do that either, but the essence of his points ring true all these years later.
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