The CBC Windsor’s Desmond Brown interviewed Dr. Murray Howe recently, and the youngest Howe brother has a simple, succinct “nickname” for the Gordie Howe International Bridge:
The youngest son of late NHL legend Gordie Howe has the perfect nickname for the bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit that bears his father’s name — The Gordie.
“I would just call it The Gordie. From the second I heard that it would be named after him, I just said we’re going to go across The Gordie now,” Murray Howe said on Windsor Morning.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge is inching closer and closer to its expected fall 2025 completion date. Last week, Howe family members were among scores of guests and dignitaries on hand to mark another milestone in the construction — the completion of the road deck connecting both sides.
“The bridge really symbolizes how big he was. I mean, he was just larger than life, and if he was in a room, you just immediately recognized his presence because he was just like a giant gorilla,” Howe said.
“He just filled up the room in the same way that that bridge [does], you can’t miss it when you’re anywhere around Metro Detroit or southern Ontario, you’re going to see that, you’re going see The Gordie.”
Continued with an 8-minute audio interview with Murray…
