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Originally Posted by Shazam
Ah back when money was worth something.
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I'm sure hockey players routinely used to beat up cabbies for 20 cents. Mind you, that was when cabs were horse-drawn and a dollar a day was a living wage.
I tell you, we should have kept that old-fashioned attitude towards money:
In 1898, the Berlin (now Kitchener) Hockey Club beat their arch-rivals from Waterloo in an intermediate game. The mayor of Berlin was so pleased, he gave each player a $10 gold coin. The Ontario Hockey Association banned those players for life for, and I quote, ‘turning professional’.
Jack Gibson, a star of that Berlin team, never got to play amateur hockey again. To get back in the game, he had to start his own league – the very first professional hockey league.
And now look where it's led us. Paying players! Harrumph!