FeedSure, I’ll Just Ask Jean Beliveau!
February 3, 2012 in Jean Beliveau, Letters, Montreal Canadiens, Sam Pollock Tags: Frank Selke Jr, Gerard Pelletier, Jean Beliveau, Red Fisher, Sam Pollock
Okay, I’m a bit embarrassed by this. I mean, who asks Jean Beliveau for tickets?
I guess I did, although until I found this letter the other day, I had no idea I’d even done this. In fact, I still don’t remember, and when I looked at it, all I could do was scratch my head.
As mentioned the other day, I came across some letters I’d thought were long gone, and this Beliveau one is the third I’ve posted in the past week or so. It joins Red Fisher and Gerard Pelletier from the recently-found batch, along with Asking Sam Pollock to be stick boy and Frank Selke Jr. that I’d posted several years ago and which sit quietly in my scrapbook.
I’ll be showing more letters in the near future if you need your attention diverted, if just for a few minutes, from this pathetic season.
February 3rd, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Man, I love it. Kids are great. And players love getting letters from them, in particular.
I wonder who “lr” is.
February 3rd, 2012 at 12:50 pm
HDS, must have been his secretary.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:17 pm
HDS, the problem is, I wasn’t a kid. I was 34. That’s why I’m slightly embarrassed.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:20 pm
I wasn’t a kid….oh man that was a good one!!!
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:38 pm
I blame it on the DKRSFB.
Jean Beliveau is such a gentleman though. His reply just oozes class.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Danno, thank you. That’s a great excuse. That damn DKRSFB.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Dennis, this is really hilarious. The nerve on you is amazing. That fact that you were 34 makes this great but the fact you don’t remember it makes it even more hilarious. You might have been drunk when you wrote it and drunk when you got the letter I can just imagine your cheeks getting as red as a Habs jersey reading this lately!
I can just picture JB reading it and thinking: The nerve of this guy!
February 3rd, 2012 at 2:02 pm
I don’t have any DKRSFB, but I think I have an old bottle of Froz-Ex in the shed.
It might help numb the pain of watching the hapless Habs this year.
http://dennis-kane.com/you-never-froze-up-when-pit-lepine-was-around/
February 3rd, 2012 at 2:05 pm
And Danno, they ended up in last place and poor old Pit was fired. History is going to repeat itself, I’m afraid.
February 3rd, 2012 at 4:57 pm
LOL
Thirty-four year old kid. Sparkling.
February 3rd, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Don’t see too many nice signatures/autographs like Mr Beliveau’s nowadays……
February 3rd, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Martin, I despise the scribbles I see nowadays. If they didn’t include their numbers, we’d have no idea who the player was. Players back then wrote legible, they took their time. Beliveau’s is a perfect example, but most were like him. Hull, Howe, Richard, all of them. For the money players make now, they could at least sign their name so fans could read it.
February 3rd, 2012 at 9:36 pm
HDS, I figure in another 10 or 20 years I might start to grow up. But there’s no guarantee.
February 3rd, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Darth, I guess I wanted good seats for a change and didn’t want to pay scalpers prices. I’ve been wondering how I put it in the letter.
February 5th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Dennis it’s too bad Beliveau didn’t return your original letter, I’d love to see how you asked for the tickets.
I see you used to live just a short walk away from Liam Maguire’s. Did you see the new strip of big box stores they’ve built over the old train yards? It wouldn’t have been my first choice, but that area is yet another better spot for Ottawa to have put its hockey arena.
February 5th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Chris, I had such great years, about six, in that area, with very fond memories. I miss Ottawa. I lived there for 15 years and I considered it home. Then we moved away for some reason.