With Chuck Norris, you just had to be there to understand
By Ben Fowlkes••Yahoo Sports
How can you explain a phenomenon like Chuck Norris to a generation that knew the name, but only in long-forgotten internet memes?
A person who shall remain nameless texted me this morning. Her students, all women in their early twenties, were perplexed about something. They saw this news that Chuck Norris had died .
It came through in push notifications from actual news sources first thing Friday morning, so clearly this was a person who mattered. They knew the name. You know, kind of.
But for most of them, that’s about where it stopped. “He was in ‘Walker, Texas Ranger,’” one explained. “What’s that?
” replied another. “Doesn’t he have a bunch of facts and jokes? ” one asked.
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