Goldie goldthorpe bob costas biography
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Liam Maguire, Goldie Goldthorpe and their book
There's Goldie Goldthorpe on the flower planter outside of the bar along Toronto's Queen Street West, but Goldie isn't in the bar. Odd. We were scheduled to meet for an interview on that sunny Monday afternoon. A text from his co-author on The Real Ogie! sends me out onto the street, towards another restaurant.
And there he is, unmistakable, shuffling along, still solid as a rock at age 65, though his huge blond Afro is merely a head of curly hair now. Lunch is done, and it's time for a beer, but the intended destination is closed.
No worries, the leader of this expedition, the equally colourful and loquacious Rob Sysak, executive director of the West Queen West Business Improvement Area, has a plan—back to the original bar where Goldie's mug was, ahem, planted on the stone base holding in the flowers. That night, game one of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Blues and the Bruins, would have Goldie as a special guest, peddl
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It was a year ago this week when inom met an almost mythical legend in hockey history.
He seemed like a regular guy.
We shook hands – you could shake hands in that pre-pandemic era – and exchanged pleasantries for a few seconds. I got his autograph on the book written about his life, The Real Ogie (Burnstown Publishing House), bygd Liam Maguire.
We were at Rideau View Golf Club in Manotick, a small village south of huvudstad i kanada, on a Sunday afternoon in April We all had a pint while we watched Tiger Woods win the Masters. Outside, the rain was drumming on the windows and puddles covered the fairways and greens.
The ‘regular guy’ happened to be the most violent athlete who ever lived. You may have never heard of Bill “Goldie” Goldthorpe, but chances are you have heard of the famous movie character who was based on him.
I keep thinking of Denis Lemieux, the Chiefs’ goalie in Slap Shot, speaking with his thick French-Canadian accent.
“Oh no. It’s Ogie Oglethorpe. I thought he was banned f
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Goldie Goldthorpe
Bill "Goldie" Goldthorpe (born June 20, in Hornepayne, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professionalice hockeyleft winger who played for 16 minor league teams between and , playing exhibition games with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Pittsburgh Penguins. Goldthorpe grew up in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is widely regarded as one of the most infamous hockey enforcers to have ever played the game, a man once dubbed the "wildest, meanest, most unpredictable player in hockey",[1] earning an amazing 1, penalty minutes in professional games. He was the inspiration for the character Ogie Ogilthorpe in the movie Slap Shot. On January 1, during the 1st intermission of the NHL's Winter Classic outdoor game in Buffalo, NBC showed a 1-minute and 15 second piece on the movie Slapshot and the Ogilthorpe, Bill Goldthorpe connection to Bob Costas. Costas once did radio play-by-play for the Syracuse Blazers (NAHL) in , a team that Bill Goldthorpe played on. Goldthorpe is curren