Jul 23
The Gondola at Maple Leaf Gardens may have been the single most dangerous place in all of Toronto. The catwalk you had to scale to get up there was insane.
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The Gondola at Maple Leaf Gardens may have been the single most dangerous place in all of Toronto. The catwalk you had to scale to get up there was insane.
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"1926 - November 13 - Foster Hewitt, sitting out on the slippery roof of Richardson Stadium, calling the Queen's-Varsity football game for CFCA, Toronto, froze to the spot after rain turned to hail. He had to be broken free and hauled off the roof with ropes."
Hey, what the fuck was going on in sports in 1926? During a varsity sports game, the announcer was commentating on the game sat on the roof of the stadium it was being played in, when it began to rain. He kept calling the game. Rain turned to hail and he didn't move. Sat there with his microphone, Hewitt fucking froze to the spot, and after the game they had to break him out of the ice and get him off the roof with ropes. What the fuck.
Also, this guy Foster Hewitt was a big name in Canadian hockey commentary, he'd been the regular commentator for CBC's still-running hockey broadcast, Hockey Night In Canada in the 1930s. He coined the iconic phrase, "he shoots, he scores!" And he froze to the top of a roof at Queen's University. Great.
Unfortunately I cannot find anything else about this historic game and freezing conditions, all I have are the Broadcast history of Canada's word for it. I believe it though, sports fans are mad.
February 1948.
Foster Hewitt guest stars on the Wayne and Shuster radio show.
Foster Hewitt | Old Canada
1989.
The Rick Moranis Parody of a Toronto Maple Leafs Broadcast.
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The Life and Times of Foster Hewitt
Mary and Huey.
Aislin cartoon making fun of Foster Hewitt's apparent unwillingness or inability to pronounce French names correctly (a commentary on both long-standing English-French tensions and ways they are perceived in popular culture). Drawn and published during the 1972 Summit Series.