Remembering legendary Tim Horton

[@friendofvinnie]

Awesome thanks 🙏

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Tim, may have been one of the strongest - physically - pound -for-pound - man - to ever live ...strong guy

[@markliebrock6246]

Good for Buffalo for looking after his memory, you would think Toronto could have put that much effort in honoring is accomplishments.

[@annmariemcleod6670]

Toronto honors Wayne Gretzky and have forgotten about Tim

[@sydneyelliott]

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

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I suppose it says a lot America honors a Canadian like Hortons.

[@bruce8321]

Toronto has him in Legends Row.

[@robertstone9988]

They forget to bring up the point where he was drunk as a skunk when he crashed that Pantera

[@HappyHalBallard]

Remembered him as a Sabre. His Leaf days were a little before my time. Magnificent player!

[@sudsysutherland359]

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.

[@rivers743]

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.

[@robertstone9988]

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]

​@@robertstone9988 * Alcohol and driving a vehicle of any kind don't mix..

[@robertstone9988]

@@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.

[@bruce8321]

In those days it was common and stupid. Then the cops would escort you home if you were drunk and at times the cops were drunk. You have to have been there. There was a day if you stole a horse you were hung. Things change given enough time.

[@eduardobertogna7263]

Now Tim Hortons was acquired by 3 Brazilian billionaires, it is not Canadian anymore.

[@quietcool4884]

It's Terrible Tim's now.

[@carmenpineda2197]

It's really lost It's Canadian roots, no matter how nostalgic they try to make the restaurants.

[@fredvance7732]

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.

[@basilsmith104]

Great player.

[@georgesockett3316]

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

[@Horsemanpro63]

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.

[@carmenpineda2197]

That's very possible.

[@saulstar5203]

Drunk n doped up

[@MRVISTA-wz7vj]

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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@stoveguy2133]

There were 6 teams back then.

[@p.g.8138]

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.

[@polska905]

One thing people don't remember and wasn't mentioned here is that he was loaded drunk and speeding when he crashed. What a hero...

[@halon7476]

Well done Buffalo 👍

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

"If you build it ...they will come"

[@nickdawsonmr3063]

Fascinating

[@iamrhockey]

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

[@lifeongps]

cause we do not care,,,lol

[@katiegrundle9900]

im sure that americans know about tim hortons. im canadian, and when ive been in the states, the americans are a super nice people

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

At least my city has these stores (Toledo).

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@katiegrundle9900Having a shared league with Canada in the NHL helped.

[@danny7954]

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.

[@NoCluYT]

@Pat Luxor it WAS good

[@pwilliams5724]

prior to the coffee he had a burger joint on Lakeshore shore rd at the credit river. it was on the south east corner.

[@DW-tq9bp]

Luckily for his legacy drunk driving while on drugs wasn't taken as hard as it is today

[@marcweiss3098]

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.

[@itzivanplayz4004]

It’s been 50 years since he passed away😢

[@sjames304]

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.

[@TR-vr5pz]

Youre shit--we love Timmys here in NYS--F You and Starbucks

[@carmenpineda2197]

So sad. The man really took his own life! Alcohol isn't worth it!

[@michaelleroy9281]

He played for the Leafs Rangers Penguins and Sabres

[@ghostspectre1861]

Medium with milk? Really?

[@brianjones7660]

Schoenfeld will tellyou Horton accelerated his development as a Dman by several years.....

[@skinnerprodz9210]

Sad

[@StukInBuf]

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.

[@PeachesCobb123]

is it just me or does tim horton kinda look like walt longmire

[@pwilliams5724]

who the hell is walt longmire. your next door neighbor?

[@ghostspectre1861]

"Amazing to see players without helmets..." Wow, new to the world of video footage?

[@bartsimpson897]

how about goalies without goalie masks

[@carmenpineda2197]

Probably not a hockey fan.

[@carmenpineda2197]

He'd be turning over in his grave if he saw what his business has become.

[@w5pinbowler]

Ashley used to work for Ctv in Toronto, that comment she made was scripted

[@alexhenderson4543]

He’s from Hamilton

[@katiegrundle9900]

and the fiest store is still on upper ottawa street

[@rachelgibson1858]

Single car accident. Was there not a police chase?

[@JS-oh7if]

Rachel Gibson I’m pretty sure he was drunk. Also the car he died in was part of the contract he signed with Buffalo.

[@StukInBuf]

@@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.

[@MrKruger88]

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.

[@danny7954]

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.

[@danny7954]

@@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.

[@Chaos_]

Tim Horton must be rolling in his grave, knowing how disgusting the products are now, and being served by people that don't know English.

[@Jeffrey-hk4fq]

🤔was he drunk 🥴?

[@skinnerprodz9210]

But jusus how many people where there 👇🏻

[@ktherby]

Who is this guy? CHUCK MISSLER is a King James Bible Corrector Extraordinaire. KJB tested! Another of his channels has this.

[@paulchristie2118]

Tim Horton was a drunk.

[@derick3482]

what comes to mind? a drunk who founded one of the trashiest coffee companies he was killed in car accident while putting everyone s life in danger but you won't find this in ABOUT US HISTORY OF TIM HORTONS CO