My best friend and I at age six made a pact, one way or the other, we were going to be integral in Maple Leafdom...
We both made good.
He became the NHL's youngest GM, for years till the Arizona guy and Dubas.
I was on my way to being an NHL player and my mother, put a kibash to that, and my music career, so I went pro in another sport.
Third love won out..
But I sold my shares in a company along with two buddies and we created the unofficial leaf clubhouse..
A very nice bar and restaurant at the distillery...
But in between those events, I had a very hot gf, that all the top leafs loved to hit on, for some reason, she always stayed true to me, but those buds, always came to me, wondering who the heck I was, to have such a hottie.
I started throwing parties, and I invited all the Leafs, most of them showed, and hence, ultra hot women showed and it just became a thing.
I had a fight in grade seven, in ottawa, with my best friend...
good old days when kids were kids and men were men...
The fight lasted over an hour, not many breaks, what was the fight about?
Me, insisting to the poor guy, that the Leafs were better than the Canadiens.
He didn't want the fight, but I did, didn't matter than I had skipped two years of school and was two years younger than him and that he was the toughest guy his age, in Ottawa, maybe Canada.
I threw a bomb at him and it commenced...After twenty minutes, the school shut down and the principal was the biggest cheerleader..
POLICE showed up as well and seeing that neither of us was in serious condition at that point, joined the lineup, enthralled at two best friends throwing bombs at each other, a la hagler/hearns...
It was pretty dumb on my part, to start a fight, on the merits of the leafs in the 70's. Beyond dumb, but that was how big a fan I was of this team at that time.
That guy I fought, great guy... We became better friends and pretty famous locally for what we did to each other.
He is now a very high up in the RCMP... Won't say his name for obvious reasons.
Funny end to the story, we go home, my face looks like hamburger, he barely has a scratch, my cat takes one look at us and attacks him and did far more damage to him, that I was able to..
Don't mess with a cat owner lol.