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Date of upload: Sep 28, 2017 ^^
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Gordie Howe is one of the legends of not just hockey but of sports itself. I met him once in the Minneapolis airport long after his playing days in the early AM hours as people were waiting for their flights. He was dressed in a suit and tie standing up on a wall by himself. No one recognized him at that early morning hour so the debate was on whether to bother him or not. He was a nice man.
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Gordie Howe was, by most people's estimation, one of the two of three greatest hockey players in the world. Three of the people who say this are Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Bobby Orr, all of whom have stated that he was the greatest hockey player ever. I defer to their judgement. He was born just outside Saskatoon and was moved here as a baby. He played in the NHL in five decades (the '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s) and he played one shift with the Detroit Vipers of the old IHL in the 1990's. He was fast, big and tough, with lethal elbows. The term "a Gordie Howe Hattrick" refers to a goal, an assist and a fight all in one game. Gordie actually had few of those - nobody wanted to go toe to toe in a fight with Gordie.
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The Gordie Howe International Bridge is under construction right now. It will connect Detroit, Michigan (USA) and Windsor, Ontario (Canada) and for the first time allow motorists to immediately merge onto a freeway in Canada as opposed to forcing them to endure the city streets of Windsor for several miles before hitting the highway (as they have been required to do for decades using the only options available even today, the Tunnel to Canada and the Ambassador Bridge).
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I would have needed to disqualify myself on Gordie Howe. His picture was well known to me long before 1967. The first professional hockey game I went to was at the old Madison Square Garden (8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets) between the Rangers and Red Wings. That was when there was still only six teams in the NHL.
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@stanbrown32
2 years ago
Tom Poston bringing up Thelonius Monk, and then Peggy Cass's groan of frustration that he took her joke, are great.
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