I want to mention this.

We are interested to know the stats of Anthony Richardson yesterday.

We are curious to know the rushing yards that the Colts might have gotten on the ground.

We would love to know how many sacks they got defensively or pressures on Joe Burrow.

And we live in an era now where that stuff is almost instantaneously available to all

of us via the, you know, social media and the iPhone and everything else. It has not always been

that way. In the early days of media coverage of sports teams in this town, statistics and information was often

accumulated, recorded, and preserved by people that did it out of the labor of love because

they loved numbers, they loved stats, they loved sports.

And that is the case with a gentleman by the name of

Bill York. Now, many of you may not know Bill York's name. I'm assuming the vast majority of you

do not. And while I understand that Bill York's contributions to the sports scene in Indianapolis may be esoteric

to those of us who are fortunate enough to have a credential in a media pass.

I would ask that you lend me your ear just a minute to illuminate the contributions of Bill

York and how it translates into those of you that are listening

and have enjoyed sports in this town. And it is totally disingenuous for me to pretend that I had

the connection to the understanding of or the complete bond with Bill York that others who have been far more professional and far more

entrenched in this market than myself have been, Bill Benner, the late great Robin Miller,

David Benner, for that matter, before he was with the Pacers, and even when he was with the Pacers,

Mark Montief,

Mark Patrick, Chet Copic, Ed Sorensen,

those kinds of names.

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