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Uenth said:
There was a public diatribe about him being Doc and he was getting PM's for Fumble and that Fumble needed to change his name. I do agree that he was against Frost. He went along, as I posted earlier, because he was being a good soldier. He was thin skinned about a lot of stuff, you might not have read the threads or remember them but yeah, they are still out there.
He did have the best, as far as inside information, though. That's a fact, Jack, as the old saying goes.
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Today we have Suh, ATX, and a few others sharing and discussing what they are hearing from inside before the event actually happens. I mention the two of them specifically because they have a pretty good batting average with their predictions. I challenge any of you to find Doc Holliday insider information prior to public announcements. I humorously always thought of Doc as the ATFI (After the Fact Insider). Any time there was breaking news in Huskerville it was always "I knew this all along, but I was sworn to secrecy" type language from Doc. It was like clockwork, and quite comical.

I wish Doc all the best in his business ventures and hope he is doing well. Towards the end of his time on BHF...I found his behavior to be very strange...including "Kate" voicing her displeasure in a lengthy rant with the BHF community for not giving Doc his due respect. Oddly...she overused the ellipses in the same manner as Doc...
 
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Hunchback Johnny said:
Today we have Suh, ATX, and a few others sharing and discussing what they are hearing from inside before the event actually happens. I mention the two of them specifically because they have a pretty good batting average with their predictions. I challenge any of you to find Doc Holliday insider information prior to public announcements. I humorously always thought of Doc as the ATFI (After the Fact Insider). Any time there was breaking news in Huskerville it was always "I knew this all along, but I was sworn to secrecy" type language from Doc. It was like clockwork, and quite comical.

I wish Doc all the best in his business ventures and hope he is doing well. Towards the end of his time on BHF...I found his behavior to be very strange...including "Kate" voicing her displeasure in a lengthy rant with the BHF community for not giving Doc his due respect. Oddly...she overused the ellipses in the same manner as Doc...
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The part in purple: Thank you for saying what I also thought but didn't know how to phrase.
 
Rose colored glasses.
I remember setting Doc off a time or two. He struck me as someone who had something agitating him from the inside out. It felt that his angst was a manifestation of what was going on with himself, it just came out as an attack at others. I hope he finds peace and I hope his absence here is a sign that he's moving towards some peace.
 
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DH played for Big Red, suffered the injuries and lingering effects of the same, and still had access to inner workings of the program. He got invited to reunions and recognition events, and stayed in contact with former players, well-known and unknown.

He figured that counted for something and that we'd like to hear about it from time to time.

He was a very good guy, and yes, he felt needled by some other posters. Some of whom, to be fair, were needling him with intent.
 
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I'll say this for Doc Holiday - he still had plenty of passion for Nebraska football. I hope he still does. I'm struggling to hang in there....lol. I won't be trying to go to any games next year but I will be watching on TV....GBR!
 
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Hunchback Johnny said:
I wish Doc all the best in his business ventures and hope he is doing well. Towards the end of his time on BHF...I found his behavior to be very strange...including "Kate" voicing her displeasure in a lengthy rant with the BHF community for not giving Doc his due respect. Oddly...she overused the ellipses in the same manner as Doc...
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FWIW, I believe he mentioned that Kate did most of his typing because of injuries that bothered his hands.
 
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DrFumble said:
I spent 15 years with folks who migrated here when our old Scout board went bye-bye. My nickname there was "Doc" or "Doc Fumble."

When a few of my old buddies had the audacity to call me "Doc" on THIS board, Doc Holiday viewed it as a personal shot at him. He told me I should change my screen name.
I. Kid. You. Not.

Being a newbie at the time and not wanting to rub the board's Old Guard the wrong way, I asked Chris if I should. He told me I was fine.

There was to be only one Doc here on BHF at that was him.
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I remember the exchanges. I was one, among others, who said something that bent him out of shape. Boy, that must have been six or seven years ago.
 
ramelbm said:
FWIW, I believe he mentioned that Kate did most of his typing because of injuries that bothered his hands.
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That's right, and at one point, he had to have his fingers individually surgically re-broken and then fixated in order to address his inability to use them properly. I believe the procedure included cutting through the scar tissue and adhesions from the prior damage. He's a tough cat.
 
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HuskerVotary said:
That's right, and at one point, he had to have his fingers individually surgically re-broken and then fixated in order to address his inability to use them properly. I believe the procedure included cutting through the scar tissue and adhesions from the prior damage. He's a tough cat.
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C’mon HV. I’m trying to eat!
 
ramelbm said:
FWIW, I believe he mentioned that Kate did most of his typing because of injuries that bothered his hands.
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Appreciate you and HV offering a different perspective. We should all be mindful of the old saying "until you've walked in someone else's shoes..." I, like many, had my differences with Doc, but I do miss his stories from his playing days, and there's no denying his undying loyalty to the Husker program.
 
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ramelbm said:
FWIW, I believe he mentioned that Kate did most of his typing because of injuries that bothered his hands.
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Yeah, his typing was atrocious before he had the surgery. By the time he quit posting, I believe that he was doing his own typing, most or part of the time.

He was an acquired taste. By the end of his tenure, I considered him one of my BHF "friends". Somewhere during that time frame, I flunked my mammogram and needed a biopsy and he and Kate both were very encouraging and supportive, something that I won't forget.

I think the main problem was that Husker Football was life and death to him and he had a hard time with those of us who loved it but didn't take it to that limit. We got used to him and he either got used to us or learned to tolerate our weirdness. His last few years of posting, seemed like we were all getting along. I just have very vivid memories, especially of the Dr versus Doc stuff and it was really a stunner.

Regardless, that's all water under the bridge and I certainly do not wish him or Kate any ill will or harbor any feelings towards them and I absolutely would welcome him back, should he choose to return.
 
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Uenth said:
I just have very vivid memories, especially of the Dr versus Doc stuff and it was really a stunner.
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Just to be crystal clear to his friends on the board: There was NO 'versus' from my end. FWIW, I'm on record as offering the board's administration to "non-Doctor" my screen name.

I didn't agree with everything he said but I liked a lot of his posts because we both have "slobberknocker" hearts. We only got into it when my occasional teasing didn't sit well with him--which I've probably done with everybody here at one time or another.
 
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It felt to me as though Doc was given a Favored Son status from the admins. It wasn't egregious, probably deserved, and I accepted it for what it was and went a little softer in my responses to him. No biggie either way. Life goes on.
 
DrFumble said:
Just to be crystal clear to his friends on the board: There was NO 'versus' from my end. FWIW, I'm on record as offering the board's administration to "non-Doctor" my screen name.

I didn't agree with everything he said but I liked a lot of his posts because we both have "slobberknocker" hearts. We only got into it when my occasional teasing didn't sit well with him--which I've probably done with everybody here at one time or another.
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Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you were. I meant that entirely towards Holiday as he was the one having the mini meltdown. Plus, as you already stated, you reached out to a mod/admin and they told you that you didn't need to make a change.
 
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Pavlov's Dog said:
It felt to me as though Doc was given a Favored Son status from the admins. It wasn't egregious, probably deserved, and I accepted it for what it was and went a little softer in my responses to him. No biggie either way. Life goes on.
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I suspect that any former Huskers who sign up in the future would also be given Favored Son status because they bled for DONU and, in my opinion, you have earned that status. I don't think, as a general rule, that Holliday overstepped his bounds. Other than the issues over melting down over Doc/Dr, that is. I'm guessing that he probably got a PM about that as it was never mentioned again, at least in the threads I was reading at the time
 
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