Last night at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN, the Indiana Pacers retired the #31 jersey of the greatest 3-pointer shooter of all time: Reggie Miller. For the state of Indiana, it was a huge event. No athelete has achieved the type of bond in Indiana Miller did with Hoosiers. It was a Hoosier star studded event. George McGinnis, Bobby "Slick" Lenard, and all the old Pacer greats came out in full force to support Reggie.
However, for some, the most intriguing part of the evening was not Reggie Miller raising his #31 jersey into the rafters of Conseco Fieldhouse. It was when Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels (R) was introduced to pay tribute to Reggie. When Daniels was introduced in front of the crowd of 68,000, they booed him relentlessly. I'm not talking a small smattered of jeers, hisses, and the occassional heckler. Everyone in that fieldhouse booed the utter crap out of Daniels not once, but twice during the ceremony.
Indiana is as red as it gets folks, and that was the first time I have ever seen a Hoosier crowd respond that negatively to an elected Republican Governor.
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