Joe Tilley, Broadcaster

Sports Broadcaster Joe Tilley talks about his current Mexican lifestyle, his 33.5 years at CFTO/CTV, his amateur boxing origins, making the move from Alberta to Toronto, his Bassett family interactions, the ‘Swissonian Institute’ morphing into the ‘Excellent Sports Adventure,’ great memories of colleagues Pat Marsden/Suneel Joshi/Claude Feig/Gerry Dobson/Lance Brown/Dave Devall [pioneer of writing backwards on plexiglass?], sharing CFTO’s Agincourt studios with Bizarre/The Littlest Hobo/Stars on Ice, his interactions with Harold Ballard/Wayne Gretzky/Frank Mahovolich/Borje Salming/Johnny Bower/Sugar Ray Leonard/Hulk Hogan, and his transition to YouTuber with Joe Tilley’s Great Canadian Sports Show! Catch Joe Tilley’s Great Canadian Sports Show at https://www.youtube.com/@greatcanadiansportsshow TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected] All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices