Rick Moffat
What's the best thing about living in Montreal?
Being a Montreal Canadiens and Montreal Alouettes fan.
Most memorable moment in your radio career?
I've been sprayed with champagne in the Canadiens' Stanley Cup dressing room back in '86, I've been sprayed with champagne by the Alouettes celebrating the Grey Cup Championship of 2002, but the proudest moments came during our first Caring for Kids Radiothon when I met a brave young man named Jabbarr, who helped encourage our listeners to donate more than $1-million dollars for the Montreal Children's Hospital.
Favorite person you interviewed and why?
In Sports, I like the free spirits like former Alouette Adriano Belli, and with the Canadiens, I appreciate the calm demeanor and pleasant availability of Cristobal Huet. Reminds me of Calvillo. Most sublime humourists? Aaron "Thunder" Downey and Ben "Velcro Hands" Cahoon of the Als.
Other than Montreal, where else would you love to live someday?
Are you kidding? Who would ever want to move?
When you have friends visit Montreal from elsewhere for the first time, what's the one thing you insist they see/do?
~ Get to a Canadiens game, or sit on the North Side at Molson Stadium for an Als game.
What's the weirdest job you've ever had?
Short-order cook at an A&W restaurant. Guy Lafleur came in, he doesn't know it but I made his burger and fries, and I witnessed the waitress who served him save his leftover fries and lettuce to take home to show the family. And you don't think hockey is religion in this town?
Favorite Hobby/Pastime?
~Playing goalie for the CJAD Mighty Yuks (that should read---picking pucks out of our net!)
Favorite magazine?
Farber in SI and Eduardo Galeano wherever I can find him.
If you could have one superpower, what would it be, and why?
~ Stretch like Plastic Man, then I could cut down on my goals-against average.
Favorite television show of all time?
~ The Sopranos.
TV Show that you'd most like to appear on, and why?
~ Six Feet Under, as long as I'm not killed off in the opening scene!
Famous person (living or dead) you'd most like to have lunch with?
~ Living---Rowan Atkinson! Dead---Che'.
If they made a movie about you, what actor would you like to play you?
John Cleese or Eric Idle.
What's your #1 pet peeve?
Goalies getting run over without a penalty.
Whom do you admire the most?
The art of Lawren Harris, the mind of Noam Chomsky, the writing of Eduardo Galeano, and of course, the goaltending of the greats like Dryden, Roy, and among active players: Ovechkin, Brodeur, Koivu and Cahoon...in no particular order..
CALL RICK MOFFAT---During Montreal Canadiens Hockey and Montreal Alouettes Football at 514-790-0991 or by punching *-Talk, which is free on Bell Mobility. Or try the CJAD Sports Department at 514-989-CJAD.
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