Saturday, January 27, 2007

For Rest: Gump

Or
No Worsley for the Wear

Or
He’s Gump, He’s Gump, He Might be Dead
Since he’s second lead in the latest dead pool update, you can pretty much be assured that he is. Gump Worsley, the losingest goaltender in NHL history, has died at the age of 77. But to paraphrase Roger Craig, it takes a pretty good goaltender to lose 353 games. Worsley accumulated a lot of those losses playing behind some awful Ranger teams, but won 4 Stanley Cups and two Vezina trophies after a trade to Montreal. Worsley also earned some notoriety as one of the last goaltenders to wear a mask, despite having been hit by objects throwing everything from a dead rabbit to a folding chair fans and having been knocked unconscious by a puck to the face. Although he likened goaltending to being one step above javelin catcher, he resisted the mask until the final 6 games of his career in 1974 at the age of 45.

Greer and Present Danger

Or
What shoulder and what art could twist the sinews of thy heart?
(A Don duo)
Tige Andrews, the captain who corralled those wacky hip kids on The Mod Squad, has died at the age of 87. He was “hey, it’s that guy” in cameos on dozens of TV shows from the 1960s through the 1980s, and was the lamest lycanthrope ever as Bert/The Werewolf in The Werewolf of Woodstock.

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