Nobody was happier for Bush that day than I was. He was a really good guy, very classy, and a good teammate. It was never his fault that he wasn't a better player than he was; he really wanted to be, and tried to be but he just wasn't.
I felt really badly for him when he finally learned how disliked he was by th fans. Like a lot of players, he didn't pay any attention to what people were saying about him, because all he cared about was what his coaches and teammates were telling him. And apparently, they were always very professional and supportive of him in their criticisms and suggestions.
Then one day, after a game in about his second year, some ******* beat reporter cornered himn at his locker while he was **********, and asked him something like"so, how does it feel to be the player that all Packer fans really hate the most"? Other reporters said that there was just silence for a moment, and Bush said "
Hate me? Really
hate me?"
He'd never really thought about that, and it really bothered him. He'd heard the boos, and knew he wasn't a star, and he worked really hard to try to be better (he'd study film until 2AM sometimes), but he didn't understand why people would personally hate him for not being better. He's not the kind of guy who would ever think like that.
He did improve somewhat steadily in his years here, because he worked his *** of, but he was just only ever going to get "so good". He topped out where he topped out, and eventually moved on to have a very nice and successful life in other areas.
Including a very happy marriage to a 5'10" Brazilian Olympic heptathlete, Lucimara da Silva.
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So, the haters can hate him all they want. Somehow, I think he doesn't mind how his life went.
