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I another thread, somebody suggested Bobby Hull was a wonderful ambassador to the game of hockey. Obviously, everyone knows his exploits on the ice but what many might not be aware of was just how big an ******* he was off the ice, namely to his wives/family.
I found this interesting article on the travesty that was Bobby Hull off the ice. My God, ambassador to the game of hockey? If he was a normal bloke he'd have served jail time for many transgressions off the ice.
It's interesting that an elder member would try and paint Hull as a world class ambassador to hockey when this kind of information is readily available, if one so chooses to investigate.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/05/bernstein-blackhawks-now-must-fire-bobby-hull/
https://www.secondcityhockey.com/20...dor-domestic-abuse-hitler-winter-classic-2017
I found this interesting article on the travesty that was Bobby Hull off the ice. My God, ambassador to the game of hockey? If he was a normal bloke he'd have served jail time for many transgressions off the ice.
It's interesting that an elder member would try and paint Hull as a world class ambassador to hockey when this kind of information is readily available, if one so chooses to investigate.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/05/bernstein-blackhawks-now-must-fire-bobby-hull/
As long as we’re digging into personal backgrounds to find ways to protect the pristine image of a franchise, let’s turn a similar spotlight on that of Bobby Hull, the Hall-of-Fame winger who serves currently as an official Blackhawks Ambassador.
Hull’s second wife, Joanne, whom he wed in 1960 and divorced in 1980, told an ESPN documentary in 2002 that she “took a real beating†at his hands. She described an incident during which Hull “threw me in the room, and just proceeded to knock the heck out of me. He took my shoe – with a steel heel – and proceeded to hit me in the head. I was covered with blood. And I can remember him holding me over the balcony, and I thought this is the end, I’m going.â€
She filed to end the marriage in 1970 after several more incidents, but they reconciled until Hull threatened her with a loaded shotgun in 1978. Their daughter, Michelle, also described his pattern of behavior to “Sports Century,†and she now works as an attorney specializing in domestic violence.
He remarried in 1984, but the incidents of physical abuse continued for new wife Deborah. Hull was arrested in the parking lot of their Willowbrook condominium in 1986 during a violent domestic altercation, and was eventually convicted for taking a swing at an intervening police officer. Willowbrook Police Chief Steven List said “there was evidence he had struck his wife in the face. She had some contusions, some swelling.â€
https://www.secondcityhockey.com/20...dor-domestic-abuse-hitler-winter-classic-2017
Roughly 15 years after the airing of that ESPN profile, Hull trotted out onto the ice at Busch Stadium as an ambassador of the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday afternoon. Surrounded by tens of thousands of fans, with millions more watching at home, Hull dropped the ceremonial puck with his son, Brett. It was meant to be a delightful father-son moment, and for many watching at home, I’m guessing it was.
But that’s partially because so few fans seem to be aware of Bobby Hull’s history. They don’t know that just a dozen years ago, Brett had openly discussed how his father ignored him as a kid. They don’t know that Bobby was convicted in 1987 of assaulting a police officer who tried to intervene in an argument with his then-wife Deborah. They don’t know about the history of domestic abuse, or that he told a newspaper in 1998 that “Hitler had some good ideas, he just went a little bit too far."