It was announced today that long time Canuck colour man, Tom Larscheid, will be retiring after the Canucks’ opening game of this season. Some will say this is long overdue. We say not. Yeah, he’s corny. And his school wholesale jersey boy giggling makes us cringe. But he has always been damn passionate about this team. Some have called him a homer. John Garrett is a homer. Bob Cole is a homer. But old Tommy is not. He is simply guilty of wearing his heart on his sleeve baseball jersey free shipping and falling in love with a team that typically wasn’t deserving of it. And we thank him for that. As the perfect foil to the very straight antics of his play-by-play partners, most notably Jim Robson and John Shorthouse, he provided exactly what the job description ordered, “colour”. He was quick to carve the team a new one when they needed it. And that was often. And he was just as quick to drive the band wagon.
Some of you will remember the mid to late 80’s when the BC Lions National Post (for whom Larscheid also provided his one-of-a-kind stylings) moved their broadcast rights from CKNW to CFUN and took Tommy with them. That subjected us (as if the play of the team itself wasn’t torture enough) to the inane ramblings of the robustly dull Garry “Mondo” Monahan. In time, Larscheid returned. And all was well again. Though our team still sucked.
No comments:
Post a Comment