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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Those closest to Steve Reid know him as president of a trucking company, a former teammate, and a dad.
Some even remember him as a color commentator on Purdue basketball broadcasts.
However, most others know Reid as the answer to a trivia question.
For 20 years, his life has been defined by one enduring image — Bob Knight hurling a red, plastic chair across the basketball court as the 5-foot-9 Reid stood at the free throw line for Purdue.
“There are times I walk into a meeting or a friend calls to say ’I saw you on TV last night,”’ he said from his Georgia home. “I know what they’re talking about.”
Like other famous trivia answers, Wally Pipp, Mookie Wilson and Al Downing, Reid’s name will forever be linked to the question: “Who was the guy?”
The chair toss also remains a defining moment in the Indiana-Purdue rivalry. The teams will meet up again Wednesday, one day short of the 20th anniversary of Knight’s throw.
Purdue coach Gene Keady is the last remaining major link to the outburst and he will be coaching his final game at Assembly Hall.
Two decades ago, Keady walked into the postgame news conference after a 72-63 win and insisted the important thing was that Purdue won.
He was wrong.
In Reid’s mind, the red speck he noticed out of the corner of his eye never faded. Nor did the ensuing collapse — he missed 3 of 6 free throws as Knight was tossed from the game and was promptly scolded on the sideline by Keady.
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He’s coped with it, though, by poking fun at himself over the years. During speeches, Knight sometimes recounts a tale of spotting an old woman behind the basket who needed a chair, so he tossed one to her.
In 2002 at a news conference, Knight found another way to joke about it after tossing aside a broken metal chair.
“That’s the furthest I’ve thrown a chair in a long time,” he said.
To Iowa coach Steve Alford, who was then playing for Knight, the chair throwing was symbolic of a season gone awry. Indiana went 16-13 that year and lost to UCLA in the NIT championship, far below the lofty expectations of a coach who by then had won two NCAA titles and the 1984 Olympic gold medal.
“It was not one of our better years, whether it was throwing a chair or not playing well as a team or whatever,” Alford said. “It was a technical foul and we moved on.”
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| Saturday, Oct. 27 | 1:30 - 4 p.m. | MLS: New York at Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Arlo White, Kyle Martino, Russ Thaler |
| 4 - 6 p.m. | Ironman World Championships | Kona, Hawaii | Al Trautwig | |
| Sunday, Oct. 28 | 2 - 4 p.m. | ISU Grand Prix Figure Skating | Windsor, Ontario, Canada | Terry Gannon, MIchael Weiss, Tara Lipinski |
| 4 - 6 p.m. | Professional Bull Riding Finals | Las Vegas | Criag Hummer, Ty Murray, JW Hart, Justin McBride, Leah Garcia, Marty Snider | |
| 7 - 8:20 p.m. | Football Night in America | New York | Bob Costas, Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Peter King, Alex Flanagan, Mike Florio, Hines Ward | |
| 8:20 - Conclusion | Sunday Night Football: Saints at Broncos | Denver | Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya |
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