Richard Anderson, perhaps the Jazz's most well-known fan, died in March. Some of those who knew him best, and some who only met him a time or two, share their favorite stories of the man who was so much more than a rubber chicken-swinging irritant.
“Hughie Evans, Dick Bavetta, and Ed Rush, who reffed a lot of Jazz games, I remember those guys always going over to Dr. Anderson when he was waving the chicken on the stick, and they would say, ‘You’ve got to take that down.’ And he would say, ‘Why?’” recalled Chiesa. “And then he’d take it down for maybe 5 minutes, and then 5 minutes later he’d do it again.”
“My sister and I got hooked up with courtside seats many years ago. During halftime, while we were down eating, we ran into him. He stopped and talked to us and took a picture with us,” recalled Tyson Hatch, of Lehi. “We were thrilled! That guy is a Jazz icon!”“He was super-supportive of the Jazz, and a likely irritant for opposing teams,” said former Jazz wing Blue Edwards. “Jazz fans are great — loyal and enthusiastic as hell. Richard Anderson was undoubtedly chief among them.
“He smiled and gave me a big hug,” Aagard recalled. “He said it meant a lot that I cared enough to make sure he got it back. I told him how important that sign was to Jazz fans.” “It was always people wanting to meet him, all the security guards loved him. Everyone knew who he was whenever we went, and I was always wondering why he was so famous,” Bauer said. “I guess it took me a while to realize that no one else brings rubber chickens to basketball games. … I was just born into him doing that, so it seemed normal. It was just like, ‘Oh, Pa’s waving his rubber chicken again.
“There was one time when he only took me to a Jazz signing, and then we just talked all the way home, about how I was doing, about how he was doing,” said Bauer Anderson. “It was a nice time.”Kevin Kindred, the aforementioned teen from Preston, Idaho, now an adult resident of Spanish Fork, knew Dr. Anderson as, well, a doctor first, before he became aware of his famous and infamous fandom.“Dr. Anderson was my surgeon when I was a kid and had an infected tear duct.
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