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Grex Sports Item 58: Gordie is coming back!
Entered by richard on Sat Mar 15 19:25:15 UTC 1997:

Another in this era of sports comebacks.  Gordie Howe is coming back!
Gordie is coming out of retirement and hopes to start for the Syracuse
Crunch of the American Hockey League.  His first game willbe agains tthe
Carolina Monarchs on April 1st, the day after Gordie's 69th birthday.

The Crunch are the top minor league team of the Vancouver Canucks.  If
Gordie is any good, maybe he'll get promoted to Vancouver before the
playoffs.

It'llbe nice to see Gordieback, but hemay be letting his vanity get to
him, trying tocome backbecuase Gretzky is breaking allhis scoring records.

12 responses total.

#1 of 12 by thetick on Sat Mar 15 19:46:46 1997:

Well..i think that he should stay retired.  He's getting way old now,
no matter how good he once was, and if he gets checked well..
the words "Snap, crackle, pop" keep coming to mind :)

#2 of 12 by richard on Sat Mar 15 22:43:04 1997:

Ah, Gordie's a tough old guy, he still plays exhibitions and practice 
games and such.  He probably cant do the minutes he could when he was 
younger, but he can still get up and down the ice.

Some might consider this a publicity stunt, but that isnt Gordie Howe.  
He wouldnt do anything he wasnt serious about.

#3 of 12 by richard on Sat Mar 15 22:50:18 1997:

besides, canyou see it if Gordie gets called up by Vancouver and gets to
laceup the skates against the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena!  That would be
great...

#4 of 12 by omni on Sun Mar 16 05:46:48 1997:

   I was lucky enough to have spent 2 hours talking to Gordie Howe, and from
what I heard and saw, he has no ego, but he is a good and decent person. I
think it's wonderful that Gordie's coming back. I think it might give the
game some much needed class, and he might just make a few players wake up and
smell the coffee.
   I wouldn't count on him to be an everyday player, but I think he could do
it. I cannot think of a person that embodies the word class more than he does.

#5 of 12 by srw on Mon Mar 17 02:28:17 1997:

Oh I like Gordy. I agree that he is a good and decent person. But I also think
this is a stunt to get in some hockey playing into a sixth decade, hardly
anything more.

#6 of 12 by omni on Mon Mar 17 04:05:46 1997:

  So what if it is? He is probably the only one who can do this and get away
with it. Go Gordie!

#7 of 12 by albaugh on Sun Mar 23 10:18:39 1997:

Minnie Minoso (sp) tried to play baseball in his 60's (to keep his "decades
played in" streak going), but the commish wouldn't let him.

#8 of 12 by richard on Sat Mar 29 16:27:44 1997:

Syracuse isnt going to play Gordie after all...they've been slumping and
need to win the game he was scheduled for.  He might come back
next season.

#9 of 12 by hematite on Sun Mar 30 02:22:45 1997:

I just don't get it. All this speculation about why he's coming
back, if he's coming back. WHy can't they just let the man do
what he wants for pities sake? Sheesh..

#10 of 12 by srw on Sat May 3 05:44:20 1997:

Because this is a conferencing system. As participants, it is our job to
analyze absolutely everything.

#11 of 12 by hematite on Mon May 5 23:08:55 1997:

No, I mean in the media! All the media types are jumping all over him
because the guy wanted to play some more hockey. That's what I don't
get.

#12 of 12 by srw on Sat May 24 06:38:15 1997:

Oh. Sorry. Well I figure he was jumped on because a lot of them felt that it
was a cheap publicity trick.

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