When Terrance W. Siebert died two years ago, the married father from Hamilton became a spokesperson for a nation of beleaguered hockey fans with a light-hearted sentence near the end of his obituary: “It was Terry’s last wish that his pallbearers be the Toronto Maple Leafs so they could let him down one last time.”
Scott E. Entsminger had died a year earlier, as a lifelong fan of the Cleveland Browns. In his obituary, the married father from Columbus, Ohio, requested “six Cleveland Browns pall bearers so the Browns can let him down one last time.”
The two men were in their 50s when they died, and they would have been old enough to have seen their favourite teams win a league championship, with the Browns winning in 1964, and the Leafs winning in 1967.