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A Hamilton guy’s obituary mocks the Maple Leafs

By Steve Kupferman

| July 25, 2014

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“It was Terry’s last wish that his pallbearers be the Toronto Maple Leafs so they could let him down one last time.”

—It’s not a totally original joke, but good on Terry Siebert, who died at 58 in Hamilton on Monday, for getting in the final word with a sports franchise that peaked when he was 11 years old. This was the last line in his obituary.

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