![]() Or maybe just something that only two of you experienced. There was a lot of things that happened in those childhood days and I always got such a thrill out of … just going back and forth on it. Could have been almost anything, high school dance or somebody's girlfriend or something, you know, that just was a part of the family lore. What personally I'm really gonna miss is having him as a witness to a big chunk of my life. MIKE: Anything I'd say to Gord? You know, I guess what comes along with battling an illness for that amount of time, you get opportunities to, you know, to have the conversations. TOM: Mike is there anything you'd say to him right now? ![]() Tragically Hip's Gord Downie dead at 53.Gord Downie's family hoping to have public memorial event.That season, Gord got 15 shut-outs and they won the Centre 70 minor hockey championship. Then it kind of dawned on me: this is a good thing. And we've been playing road hockey you know like on the ice pads up and down the street for years and all of a sudden we've got a full set of goalie equipment. So the next September comes, and I'll never forget, he comes home from the first practice with those brand new pads, because they supply the equipment. But so anyway, so I laughed, and I'm like this'll be interesting. ![]() MIKE: Not that first year … He became a better skater, don't get me wrong. PATRICK: Did you say he wasn't a great skater? He was a lanky guy, right, you know he was young. And I remember a conversation along the lines of, 'Hey, don't blame the goalie.' Gord is like, 'Next year I'm gonna be the goalie.' And I laughed and I laughed. The goalie let them down, right? And they had this team and they'd had a great season and they lost the final game. Gord was a defenceman. So anyway they lost the game, and Gord … he's pissed off. Gord was in his first year of minor hockey … and we were coming home at the end of a season - last game. Gord's team was in the finals. ![]() TOM: Can you give me a story about childhood Gord? Patrick Downie and Mike Downie share some of their fondest memories of their brother, their plans to carry on his legacy, and what it's been like to witness an outpouring of grief from Canadians. Gord Downie's brothers sat down with the q's Tom Power for an intimate interview following the Tragically Hip singer's passing earlier this week. ![]()
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