Red Auerbach: They don't make 'em like this anymore

After watching this 30-minute interview with a much younger, but still douchey, Jim Rome, I realized that Red Auerbach is quite possibly the greatest coach ever, in any sport.
When the interview starts, there's Rome flapping his mouth, and then there's Red, leaning back and smoking a stogie.

Rome: Red, did they tell you this is a non-smoking facility?
Red: No.
Rome: Would it have mattered if they told you that?
Red: Not very much.

I love this guy already. Plus, any guy who smoked cigars on the bench when he knew his team had the game wrapped up deserves the love of every member of YCS.

Another fun tidbit from the interview:

They'd say, "It's so hot to play in the Boston Garden" and I'd say, "Yeah, isn't it terrrible? But I'll tell you something, we've got an advantage, because the half of the court we play on is air conditioned and the half of court you play on is hot." What the hell? We're playing in the same place. Anything that happened to anybody happened to us, but as long as they were stupid enough to believe that we manipulated it and we'd get an edge by that I'd say, "Yeah, fine."

I wish I would have been alive to watch him coach. And I hope they have cigars in heaven.

R.I.P. Red