I heard one player once say that if you wanted to fight him, he'd just bear hug you and squeeze the air right outta you until you'd just say okay, okay enough.
jeez seriously though!! i’m making a tribute video about him just for my own little channel and it’s sad to see that he isn’t remembered nearly as much as he should be
I'm shocked that it's not more common knowledge that he died drinking and driving. The lives he put in danger. Definitely makes me think of him differently now.
He made a phone call to his brother right before he took off that night for his brother pleaded with him not to be driving. Alcohol and high performance sports cars don't mix
@@censortube7160 I've been a car got my whole life my father was a car guy I started out with a 4-cylinder fox body Mustang before I was ever allowed to have anything with any kind of power. I've seen people wreck brand new Roush Mustangs because I had no business finding wheels something with that much power you had alcohol into that and it's a deadly combination.
That was so very interesting to watch & thanks ever so kindly for uploading this😊 They say how tough & strong Gordie Howe was, in which he was but #7 Tim Horton was right up there with #9 Howe if not a tad stronger. What an absolutely incredible era for the NHL & the original six era.
Played for the leafs for 22 years..at age 40 they traded him to the rangers for basically nothing..Punch imlak knew Horton from his Toronto days and got him for Buffalo even tho he was 42 and blind as a bat..one tough sob and strong as an ox
I was only ten in 1974. I remember Tim really well and I was a huge Sabres fan born in Kenmore and living in Kenmore in 74. One thing people don't remember is he was hit in the head by a puck before his car crash and they thought he had a concussion and it caused the crash. I also remember the sabres cooking donuts at the restaurant he opened in Buffalo. He was a great hockey player and loved by teammates and fans. I still get sad when I think about the morning waking up and hearing the bad news.
I was 10 years old back in the winter of 1974, the Team I played on practiced on Thursday mornings at 6:30am. My Dad and I had watched the Sabres vs. Leafs game the night before. On our drive to the rink the following morning we must not have had the car radio turned on. At the end of our practice as my Teammates and I skated off the ice, my Dad along with the others were waiting for us as we reached our bench. My Dad asked me “If I had heard the news about Tim Horton”? I thought it was an odd question, as we were on the ice. That’s when he broke the news that Tim had been killed in a car crash on his drive back to Buffalo! I was stunned, we all were. Afterwards as we changed in the dressing room it was eerily quiet, usually it was a jovial place to be with a lot of good-natured teasing and joking going back and forth while bemoaning the fact we soon had to go to school. When I arrived at school, I saw Teachers consoling each other as they wept over the news, I will never forget this, as for me, it shows how important Tim Horton was and hockey is to Canadians. Over the years I have read biographies about Tim and watched documentaries about him as well. His physical strength was legendary, Bobby Orr and Dave Keon both marvel on how strong he was! The best stories about Tim I have ever heard were shared by Eddie Shack when he was a guest on Don Cherry’s “Grapevine” TV show. Eddie and Don exchanged funny stories about Tim which also touched on his near Superman strength. Tim Horton was a great player and enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
He'd be rolling in his grave knowing how shitty his beloved product became. Coffee is shit, doughnuts are even worse. What a shame. The product was actually good at one time.
It's an interesting point, 1 already made, but very revealing and disappointing that these so called local reporters did not report that he was drunk when he crashed. That's not exactly an obscure part of the crash. This is what happens when u call yourself a reporter but ur actually an entertainer IMHO🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
It was a terrible lapse in judgment that cost him his life, but in no way shape or form should tarnish his legacy as a HOF player, beloved teammate, family man and entrepreneur.
I think of the recklessness of his drunkin . Hopped up on uppers, police chase that night. I also think of the brave the opp chased his pantara in crown Vic. stayed with him and got trafific away from him. The opp likey saved many lives that night. Ya, that's what I think of when think of Horton. The man the business. Not really The real story is sometimes not nice.
@@JS-oh7if If he was drunk, it was probably in conjunction with some pills he was taking to relieve/dull the pain of being smashed in the jaw the night of that game in Toronto.
Yes, it's unfortunately true that Tim was piss drunk that night. And there was a very brief police pursuit, but Tim was driving a very fast and powerful sports car; the police car never got close enough for Tim to even know he was being chased, and then they lost sight of him shortly before the crash.
I knew a retired opp officer. One of first on scene. It was a very ugly night. Horton was reckless and endangered many lives that night. The brave opp kept traffic away from his pantara. I don't know why this man is held to such a high regard.
@@MrKruger88 thats not the story I was told to in detail by a retired opp Grimsby officer who was one of first on scene that night. Your right about the speed and him being pissed.
Tim, may have been one of the strongest - physically - pound -for-pound - man - to ever live ...strong guy
I heard one player once say that if you wanted to fight him, he'd just bear hug you and squeeze the air right outta you until you'd just say okay, okay enough.
They forget to bring up the point where he was drunk as a skunk when he crashed that Pantera
Good for Buffalo for looking after his memory, you would think Toronto could have put that much effort in honoring is accomplishments.
Toronto honors Wayne Gretzky and have forgotten about Tim
jeez seriously though!! i’m making a tribute video about him just for my own little channel and it’s sad to see that he isn’t remembered nearly as much as he should be
I suppose it says a lot America honors a Canadian like Hortons.
I'm shocked that it's not more common knowledge that he died drinking and driving. The lives he put in danger. Definitely makes me think of him differently now.
He made a phone call to his brother right before he took off that night for his brother pleaded with him not to be driving. Alcohol and high performance sports cars don't mix
@@robertstone9988 * Alcohol and driving a vehicle of any kind don't mix..
@@censortube7160 I've been a car got my whole life my father was a car guy I started out with a 4-cylinder fox body Mustang before I was ever allowed to have anything with any kind of power. I've seen people wreck brand new Roush Mustangs because I had no business finding wheels something with that much power you had alcohol into that and it's a deadly combination.
Great player.
That was so very interesting to watch & thanks ever so kindly for uploading this😊 They say how tough & strong Gordie Howe was, in which he was but #7 Tim Horton was right up there with #9 Howe if not a tad stronger. What an absolutely incredible era for the NHL & the original six era.
Played for the leafs for 22 years..at age 40 they traded him to the rangers for basically nothing..Punch imlak knew Horton from his Toronto days and got him for Buffalo even tho he was 42 and blind as a bat..one tough sob and strong as an ox
I was only ten in 1974. I remember Tim really well and I was a huge Sabres fan born in Kenmore and living in Kenmore in 74. One thing people don't remember is he was hit in the head by a puck before his car crash and they thought he had a concussion and it caused the crash. I also remember the sabres cooking donuts at the restaurant he opened in Buffalo. He was a great hockey player and loved by teammates and fans. I still get sad when I think about the morning waking up and hearing the bad news.
I was 10 years old back in the winter of 1974, the Team I played on practiced on Thursday mornings at 6:30am. My Dad and I had watched the Sabres vs. Leafs game the night before.
On our drive to the rink the following morning we must not have had the car radio turned on.
At the end of our practice as my Teammates and I skated off the ice, my Dad along with the others were waiting for us as we reached our bench. My Dad asked me “If I had heard the news about Tim Horton”? I thought it was an odd question, as we were on the ice. That’s when he broke the news that Tim had been killed in a car crash on his drive back to Buffalo! I was stunned, we all were. Afterwards as we changed in the dressing room it was eerily quiet, usually it was a jovial place to be with a lot of good-natured teasing and joking going back and forth while bemoaning the fact we soon had to go to school.
When I arrived at school, I saw Teachers consoling each other as they wept over the news, I will never forget this, as for me, it shows how important Tim Horton was and hockey is to Canadians.
Over the years I have read biographies about Tim and watched documentaries about him as well. His physical strength was legendary, Bobby Orr and Dave Keon both marvel on how strong he was! The best stories about Tim I have ever heard were shared by Eddie Shack when he was a guest on Don Cherry’s “Grapevine” TV show. Eddie and Don exchanged funny stories about Tim which also touched on his near Superman strength.
Tim Horton was a great player and enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Drunk n doped up
It’s been 50 years since he passed away😢
There were 6 teams back then.
He'd be rolling in his grave knowing how shitty his beloved product became. Coffee is shit, doughnuts are even worse. What a shame. The product was actually good at one time.
Youre shit--we love Timmys here in NYS--F You and Starbucks
People in St. Catherines have said that the Police were chasing him because of speeding...the tree he hit is still there, around Lake St.
It's an interesting point, 1 already made, but very revealing and disappointing that these so called local reporters did not report that he was drunk when he crashed. That's not exactly an obscure part of the crash. This is what happens when u call yourself a reporter but ur actually an entertainer IMHO🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Well done Buffalo 👍
Fascinating
Anybody 45 and younger?? This guy is cracked. EVERY single hockey player knows who Tim Horton is and y’all Americans don’t know nothing about Timmy’s
cause we do not care,,,lol
im sure that americans know about tim hortons. im canadian, and when ive been in the states, the americans are a super nice people
At least my city has these stores (Toledo).
@@katiegrundle9900Having a shared league with Canada in the NHL helped.
prior to the coffee he had a burger joint on Lakeshore shore rd at the credit river. it was on the south east corner.
Luckily for his legacy drunk driving while on drugs wasn't taken as hard as it is today
It was a terrible lapse in judgment that cost him his life, but in no way shape or form should tarnish his legacy as a HOF player, beloved teammate, family man and entrepreneur.
"If you build it ...they will come"
I think of the recklessness of his drunkin . Hopped up on uppers, police chase that night. I also think of the brave the opp chased his pantara in crown Vic. stayed with him and got trafific away from him. The opp likey saved many lives that night.
Ya, that's what I think of when think of Horton. The man the business. Not really
The real story is sometimes not nice.
@Pat Luxor it WAS good
Sad
Now Tim Hortons was acquired by 3 Brazilian billionaires, it is not Canadian anymore.
He played for the Leafs Rangers Penguins and Sabres
Schoenfeld will tellyou Horton accelerated his development as a Dman by several years.....
Yes, I indeed know Tim Horton was a well-regarded hockey player, but his coffee and donut offerings are closest to my mind when his name is mentioned.
Medium with milk? Really?
is it just me or does tim horton kinda look like walt longmire
who the hell is walt longmire. your next door neighbor?
"Amazing to see players without helmets..." Wow, new to the world of video footage?
how about goalies without goalie masks
He was twice the legal level for dui ,he died from driving drunk
And running from the police, and on amphetamines
Ge was trying to outrun the cops
and high too
His wife sold his name for $1 million dollars when he died ,only a measly million bucks
He’s from Hamilton
and the fiest store is still on upper ottawa street
Ashley used to work for Ctv in Toronto, that comment she made was scripted
But jusus how many people where there
👇🏻
Single car accident. Was there not a police chase?
Rachel Gibson I’m pretty sure he was drunk. Also the car he died in was part of the contract he signed with Buffalo.
@@JS-oh7if If he was drunk, it was probably in conjunction with some pills he was taking to relieve/dull the pain of being smashed in the jaw the night of that game in Toronto.
Yes, it's unfortunately true that Tim was piss drunk that night. And there was a very brief police pursuit, but Tim was driving a very fast and powerful sports car; the police car never got close enough for Tim to even know he was being chased, and then they lost sight of him shortly before the crash.
I knew a retired opp officer. One of first on scene. It was a very ugly night. Horton was reckless and endangered many lives that night. The brave opp kept traffic away from his pantara. I don't know why this man is held to such a high regard.
@@MrKruger88 thats not the story I was told to in detail by a retired opp Grimsby officer who was one of first on scene that night. Your right about the speed and him being pissed.