When I told my wife I was thinking about leaving my job at ButteSports to start my own website and podcast, it resembled the episode of The Office when Michael Scott started his own paper company.

She insisted that I make a list to prove to her that I had enough potential guests to actually make a podcast work. I quickly wrote down like 140 names. One of the first was Tedd Stanisich.

Stanny, as he is known, has lived in Dillon for more than 50 years. He is a legend coaching and in the classroom, where he taught history. He coached basketball, football and golf.

At his core, though, Stanny is a Butte guy. The former Longfellow Bomber graduated from Butte High in 1962, and so many of his friends and heroes are from the Mining City.

Stanny is incredible at telling stories. He is even better at living those stories.

Stanny just looks important. He is straight out of central casting for a senator or congressman. He is also as cool as they come.

That is why he was able to easily pull off sneaking into a handful of NCAA tournaments, pretending to be a member of the media.

The stories of those tournament trips are simply amazing. So, too, is his story about the time he convinced Joe Rossman, another Butte native who coached the freshman basketball team in Belgrade, that he was going to referee the Belgrade-Dillon game to make sure the Beavers won. You have to hear that story. You have to hear all of Stanny’s stories. Listen in to get a good start on that.

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