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Originally Posted by Your Calgary Flames!
I would love a link to that game if there is one
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This is the only thing I could quickly find. It's from '99 just looking back on the incident. Would be hard to find something from when it actually happened, esepcially video since it was the previous year.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/01/sp...e-big-man.html
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Last December at home against Dallas, Theo's Flames were behind by one on a power play because Theo was hooked in the mouth. His gushing blood quickly obliterated the red Calgary C. Theo was ordered to replace his jersey.
The trainer ran for another. During the timeout little Theo stood at the bench, dwarfed by his taller teammates, shirtless, bleeding by the mouthful, angrily yapping at Dallas players and smiling wanly at the silent, stunned crowd. Suddenly a Calgary fan stood up behind the bench. He stripped off his own Calgary jersey and tossed it over the glass.
In an age when so many professional athletes seem like dour businessmen with sticks, I suspect only one millionaire player who looks and acts like a kid would prompt a fan literally to give him the shirt off his back.
And I suspect too that only one player would have the showbiz savvy to don that jersey with joy, smile that bloody, gap-toothed smile and hold his arms out for approval by the immediately appreciative crowd.
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IIRC the fan jersey was super small and Theo couldn't wear it, the trainers went at got him a massive one that was humber 76 I think until they got him a normal one.