Dieci: The Ron Francis Project - Cards
As of May 19th, 2007, this tier is 768 cards strong.
* = The sections that have last gained strength = *
Sault Ste. Marie Greyhound Cards
What?! You're actually missing cards?!
The home of those cards, a decoupage in progress, now completed:
UPDATE as of March 6th, 2005:
How did I get
that? Well, during the curing of my hockey jones through seeing youth
hockey games because of the lockout, I promised a friend whose son was on the Raleigh
Youth Hockey Association
Mite Flyers that I would show off my Ronnie card box and collection to her
son. Well, I brought the box to the Garner Ice House, and guess who was there,
helping coach the Raleigh Storm girls hockey team to their final victory (In
OT!!) AND undefeated season? You guessed it. Taking careful pains to make sure I
approached him when he was not busy (and waving at my friend, who grinned at me
when she saw what I was getting ready to do), I brought the box up to Ronnie for
him to sign. What happened next was probably the most amazing thing in my career
as the Canes and Ronnie's nuttiest fan: Ron talked to me the most he had ever
talked to me, and really, most fans in general. He was gushing with praise
over my box, saying it was the most amazing thing he had ever seen, I had put a
lot of work into it, etc. Ronnie signed the box all right (smiling ear to ear
when I told him all it was missing was his own signature), on top of the
picture of him where he was just an inch behind me at the 2003 Skate
With the Canes. After he did that and we wished each other well, everything
*really* went right...it already was going right that day through Ronnie's
son's team winning his final game of the season at the Raleigh RecZone AND as I
mentioned, the Raleigh Storm getting their win. But also, my friend's son's
Flyers barely got their win in the closest youth hockey game I ever saw, my UNC
Tar Heels beat Dook in basketball, Illinois got upset by Ohio State, along
with other upsets...obviously, I like those. 