...Cole, is described as "something of an eccentric."
Cole wouldn't, and presumably still doesn't, allow anybody to touch him during his play-by-play announcing, perhaps because he unbuckles his belt and has been known to lose his pants. "Mister, don't ever touch me again," he said once to his young broadcast partner, John Davidson, after Davidson tapped him on the shoulder.
For a while, Cole wore a toupee. "I was shocked," Mellanby writes. "You don't need that," he told Cole. "I'm trying to look good for TV," Cole said.
Cole, "a little gullible," was ready to punch out Hockey Night host Dave Hodge after Hodge told him, jokingly, he was going to be fired for telling dirty jokes at a banquet. Cole was in tears, then enraged when told it was a joke.
I would fire both Don and Harry and pair Rick with Joe Bowen. I am sure they would have a cardio crew in the booth, as sooner or later, one of them is going to croak calling a game, they get so excited.
