Re: R.I.P. Amo Bessone
It must have served John, his son, well. He went on to become an ABC Sports producer. And Amo expected no less concentration from himself. He was standing to the side of the bench during one game at Munn in the 1975-76 season when a puck whistled off the ice and smacked him right in the face, opening up a rather large gash above his eye. He refused to go back in to the training room so the team doctor could stitch him up until the period ended. Stood there, next to the penalty box for the last few minutes of the period, towel pressed to his face, screaming at me, "time, time", because I was the student manager with the stop watch in one of his experiments to keep line times from getting out of hand. The period ended, he went back and got 4 or 5 stitches, and was back on the bench at the start of the next period, big bandage over the cut.
Originally posted by Old Pio
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