Good heavens.
I've just been handed the Syracuse roster, and it appears the Syracuse Bulldog management is just real thirsty for a big, grudge-match type victory here tonight.
They've brought back, just for this one contest, some colourful...
Oh, and here they come now, led by someone we all know very well,
Tim "Dr Hook" McCracken!
And here's a name from the past. Ross "Mad Dog" Madison!
Ross, as you know, never travels anywhere without his longtime friend and attorney, Sam "Small Print" Lyman!
Here's one for nostalgia fans! Clarence "Screaming Buffalo" Swamptown!
I'll never forget an interview I did with him years ago, when Buffalo revealed he liked to call his hockey stick "The Big Tomahawk". He usually refers to opposing players as "The Little Scalps".
I thought he'd been suspended for ever.
Andre "Poodle" Lussier, defence.
Andre, of course, has been living in semi-seclusion in Northern Quebec
ever since the unfortunate Denny Pratt tragedy.
Not Poodle!
And from Mile Forty, Saskatchewan, where he now runs a doughnut shop,
number 15, former penalty-minute record holder of the Federal League
for the years 1960 to 1968 inclusive, Gilmore Tuttle!
Oh, gee. Hold the phone.
This is an unscheduled surprise.
It's him.
This young man has had a very trying rookie season, what with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada, and that country's refusal to accept him....
That's more than most 21-year-olds could handle. - Ogil-terp. -
Ogie Ogilthorpe!
Hey, Reg, I want a chair by the pool. - I want some snatch by the pool.