I love watching him. What a character. Makes Hockey night more fun when channel 9 is on.
My God, I think I just suffered brain damage from looking at the picture of Don Cherry’s suit!
Hideous...!
Band of Gold (1955)
Tell it, Don!
Here is a true story.
In the 1970s, Cherry was a minor league hockey coach. I was at a minor league game sitting behind the visitor bench. A old man in the row slapped Cherry on the head after the home team scored a goal. A player threw a water bottle at the man and the bottle bounced off and landed in my lap. Cherry was coming up over the glass to get at the man, and I looked up, saw, and then squirted Cherry in the face with the water bottle. Cherry retreated, and several players looked real mean at me, but you could tell they were about to burst out laughing.
A couple years later, after was Washington Caps game, my friend and I were at the hotel were the Boston Bruins were staying in DC. We were on an elevator and the doors opened. Don Cherry, Harry Sinden and Phil Esposito get on. Espo was wearing a full length mink coat. My friend says, “Hey coach, remember that time in Richmond and that guy sprayed you in the face with water?”
“Yeah?”
“Well, this is the guy,” pointing at me. Sinden and Esposito start looking at me and back at Cherry. I almost fainted.
Cherry is looking real angry. Then he says, “Yeah, that was pretty funny.” The doors open and they get off.
Doors close and my friend and I laugh our a**es off.
I extend a hand to our coffee latte drinking metrosexuals in Toronto. After all when the Caribbana Festival ran out of money, the Toronto City Council voted 57-0 to put up half a million dollars without restrictions. It only takes place on one day of the year. The one guy who asked for an audit report on how people spent that money, was called a racist. He quickly shut his mouth and voted yes.
Come on guys, we all need a good laugh. Get off yer high horse and laugh with Don Cherry. Life goes on!
Don Cherry is my favorite Canadian.
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