Does anyone remember . . .

[gsmonks]

I should title this "Is anyone old enough to remember" . . . 

A game around 1960, with a bench-clearing brawl, debris all over the ice, the referee and linesmen picking up the following: teeth, dentures, partials, a cheap toupee, and a glass eye. The rug looked like it belonged to Moe of The Three Stooges. 

Us being kids, we asked our granddad and our fathers who they belonged to. 

One of the players picked a set of false teeth out of the ref's hand, stuck it in his mouth, spat it out, tried another, and skated off. Another player came by, took the spat-out dentures, stuck 'em in his mouth without wiping them off, and skated away, to a chorus of "Ew-w-w" from our sisters. 

"Oh, the glass eye and the cheap rug belong to the ref," my granddad said, without cracking the least hint of a smile. 

And of course we believed him. 

Does anyone else remember this? 

If I'm remembering right, there was a guy in the crowd who used to throw his glass eye out onto the ice when he thought the ref had made a bad call. 

This happened somewhere between 1958 and 1963. 

[50belowzero]

I remember reading something about Stave Durbano ripping Bobby Hull's toupee off in a scrum, i think it was later than 58 to 63 though. I'm only going by memory so details are a bit foggy, haha.

[MrHulot]

If the rug really looked like Moe Howard's hair, it couldn't have been the infamous "Steve Durbano game", because Moe had dark hair, and Bobby Hull's hairpiece was blonde.

[gsmonks]

I always wondered what happened to the stuff that got thrown out onto the ice after the games. Men used to wear real leather shoes in those days, and protected them with "rubbers" that often got tossed out onto the ice. I wonder if they're even still made.

[schlich]

Oct 23, 2023 19:16:41 GMT gsmonks said:

I should title this "Is anyone old enough to remember" . . . 

A game around 1960, with a bench-clearing brawl, debris all over the ice, the referee and linesmen picking up the following: teeth, dentures, partials, a cheap toupee, and a glass eye. The rug looked like it belonged to Moe of The Three Stooges. 

Us being kids, we asked our granddad and our fathers who they belonged to. 

One of the players picked a set of false teeth out of the ref's hand, stuck it in his mouth, spat it out, tried another, and skated off. Another player came by, took the spat-out dentures, stuck 'em in his mouth without wiping them off, and skated away, to a chorus of "Ew-w-w" from our sisters. 

"Oh, the glass eye and the cheap rug belong to the ref," my granddad said, without cracking the least hint of a smile. 

And of course we believed him. 

Does anyone else remember this? 

If I'm remembering right, there was a guy in the crowd who used to throw his glass eye out onto the ice when he thought the ref had made a bad call. 

This happened somewhere between 1958 and 1963. 

It’s not a rug.  I swear.  It’s my own naturally growing hair

[gsmonks]

In the immortal woids of Popeye: "Arf, arf, arf, arf, arf!"

[dannycater]

I was still negative 5 years at that point...