from today's Sideline Chatter (Dwight Perry - Seattle Times)
"Money bawl
Jerry West wasn't saying the 1960 Olympic basketball team was better than the 1992 Dream Team, only that they were amateurs housed in dorms with no air conditioning and given a $1 daily per diem.
'I don't know who had the best team," countered Dream Teamer Larry Bird at last week's Hall of Fame inductions, "but I know the team in 1960 was a hell of a lot tougher than we were. I couldn't imagine the '92 team getting in a covered wagon for eight days, going across the country, jumping in the Atlantic Ocean, swimming for six days, then walking 3,000 miles to the Colosseum in Rome for a dollar a day.' "
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