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Growing Up with Saturday Night Hockey
by Alanah McGinley on 09/26/08 at 12:39 PM ET
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From Marc Crawford’s blog at CBC.ca:
Like most of you, I grew up watching and loving Saturday nights. Hockey Night in Canada was such a big part of life at the Crawford house. With nine children in the family, great seats in our living room were very valuable and many times the floor was the spot where I ended up.
It didn’t matter because we loved hockey, and throw in the fact that we might get popcorn and maybe a glass of Pepsi, it was in my opinion the perfect night.
The broadcast came on at 8:30 p.m. in those days, and the game would be joined in progress, so the big game at our house was guessing the score. All of us would take a stab at whether or not the Leafs or Canadians were up by one or two goals. It was always a thrill to hear Bill Hewitt or Danny Gallivan announce the score.
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Except for 3 children instead of 9 those are pretty much my memories, too. In the mid-50s we lived for one year, my kindergarten year, in a Toronto suburb. A big bowl of popcorn with lots of butter was standard fare for HNIC. The game would come on after Gunsmoke at 7 and Have Gun Will Travel at 8, IIRC. Later that year Dad occasionally would get two tickets courtesy of the company he worked for and he played no favorites—each of us would get to go every third time.
Fifty years later and I’m still a terminal hockey fan.
Posted by BobTheZee on 09/26/08 at 12:40 PM ET