"HE SAID WHAT?!"
That was my reaction, and I'm sure that of others, when they heard former Maple Leafs owner Steve Stavro turned down a chance to sign Wayne Gretzky as a free agent.
I’ll do whatever it takes to make it work, defer my salary for 25 years if you have to. Whatever it takes to get a deal done.
It was the summer of 1996. Atlanta was gearing up to host the Olympics, the Macarena was just starting to get on our nerves, the Nintendo64 was released, kicking off a decade of Nintendo failing to live up to the SNES, and Dolly the sheep was the first cloned animal to be born.