Marv Levy unloads the clip on a bum ass coach he fired

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Chuck dikkerson was wild.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2310682/2021/01/08/chuck-dikkerson-bills-sabres-buffalo-radio/

He labeled Dominik Hasek a quitter, called Doug Flutie “a midget” and said Glenn Parker was a “piece of pus.”

He stoked. He mocked. He railed.

He was polarizing, but love and hate weigh the same when measured in ratings and dollars. His words determined what Buffalo sports fans should think, how they should feel through much of the 1990s and into the 2000s.


While he had some favorites, the many he didn’t respect received no mercy. Some viewed his approach as harmless ball-busting, locker-room shtick. Others considered it needless cruelty.

Unable to silence his influential voice, the Bills and Sabres enacted company policies to spite him, his coworkers and his employers.

Chuck dikkerson is 84 now and has had a long time to reflect. His seminal radio show ended its aggressive run after the Bills’ 2002 season. He lost his wife of 60 years to COVID-19 over the summer. He has health problems of his own he doesn’t want to discuss.

What would he like to say to all those people he offended over the years?

“Oh, piss on ’em,” dikkerson said, breaking into the high-pitched cackle that so often punctuated the opinions he detonated every day during WGR 550-AM’s afternoon drive program.

Levy hired him as a special Bills assistant for 1987, promoted him to tight ends coach and promoted him again to defensive line coach in 1990, their first Super Bowl season.

All looked swell for the Bills through 1991 — until dikkerson made himself a spectacle during interviews before the Super Bowl.

The story that has been cemented over the past 30 years is that dikkerson made Washington mad, that the two-time AFC champion otherwise would have pulled off the upset and swiped the Lombardi Trophy.

dikkerson was obnoxious, no doubt. He made pig noises, rattled off insults about All-Pro left tackle Jim Lachey’s bad breath and right tackle Joe Jacoby being “a Neanderthal.”

Washington won 37-24, but led by 27 points more than halfway through the fourth quarter.

“He gave us a great motivating speech,” Washington center Jeff Bostic said afterward. “He was talking about the Hogs. He made a lot of really embarrassing remarks, coming from a coach. He made comments about each one of us individually. I wonder if he likes us now.”

Three days later, Levy fired dikkerson, who insisted he was joking.
 
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