Jacques Demers

News came out today that former NHL coach Jacques Demers is illiterate. Wow. That one's hard to believe--he even had some GM duties for a while, meaning he was getting assistants to handle the details of contracts for him. That would sound possible, except for the fact that no one but his wife knew about it. The reason for his illiteracy can be traced to the horrible circumstances of an abusive upbringing. I have to be quite impressed that he seems to be one of the guys who came out of awful circumstances relatively alright. And that you can manage to hide it and apparently no one thought twice about it.