re: For the younger posters..

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Nobody questioned Bear...ever.

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SavageOrangeJug- you obviously aren't old enough to remember the Bear either. I was only 8 or 9 but I remember talk of him being all washed up in the late 60's. Even in the early-mid 70's folk's were saying he couldn't win the big one anymore. It probably wasn't until 1978 that he reclaimed the glory from the mid 60's. He was openly criticized until then. Not much after though.