1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: I saved the best for last, the most important thing 2 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: to me. 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: You know. 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: When I was at IU in the fall of nineteen fifty, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: I met my wife, Nancy, the woman that many people 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: would say saved the Indiana Pacers franchise, the. 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 2: First lady of the Pacers, the great Nancy Leonard. They said, 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: we're running out of money. We don't have enough money 9 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: to pay the salaries of the players. For some reason, 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 2: I we just need some kind of exciting activity for 11 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 2: the fans, like a telephone. 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: As of twelve twenty five, we've got an hour and 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: fifty minutes to. 14 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 3: Go, Bob, We're at eighty twenty eight. If the Pacers 15 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 3: don't survive, do we get the Colts in nineteen eighty four? 16 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 3: Does the amateur sports initiative really take hold as it 17 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 3: did in the early eighties. I think that was really 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 3: a major major component to Indianapolis being able to build itself. 19 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 3: Not only is a great town, but a great sports town. 20 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 3: They helped resurrect the team from almost going into some 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 3: sort of financial. 22 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: Defall there were like eight or ten owners of the 23 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 2: places that time. They felt they needed a general manager. 24 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 2: Critisen I just said, there are so many people that 25 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: are qualified to be a general manager. And I said, 26 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 2: but I do feel the teams that I seem to 27 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 2: really have it all together, have somebody that have had 28 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: some involvement in the sport. And it was bed silence, 29 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 2: and I thought, oh my god, what have I said? 30 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 2: And one of the owners said, well, then if you 31 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 2: know all that, why don't you do it? And Bob, 32 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: you know what he said. He looked at me and 33 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 2: he said she can do it. And they said, okay, 34 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 2: that's it. You took over and she did everything inside, 35 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: all the paper, everything had to come through Nancy. 36 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: Have Nancy watched the US Open and how these golfers 37 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: walk out and tell her to pick a favor. 38 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: That's easy. You just go and watched all the golfers 39 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 2: and when you see the guy with the cutest lights, 40 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: you get, come my big This accomplish was not that telephone. 41 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: You know that. 42 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: I started the pacemates in the basement of my house 43 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 2: one night. We're down there, my little two year old, 44 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: who did Tommy? I started? A blondhead looked around the 45 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 2: corner of the chair. It would me watching the girl. 46 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 2: What would have meant to him to see a championship? 47 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: I look up in the stands at the games and 48 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: I think, oh, my gosh, Bob, you brought this inis. 49 00:02:30,760 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 2: It's hard, it's it's such a wonderful wood.