From The Toronto Sun:

"Yelling at the exec about to hire you to go forth and multiply is usually a career ending move. Bowen did just that when the phone rang in late September 1982 at his Halifax abode. Len Bramson of Telemedia Sports introduced himself, said he’d heard Bowen’s audition tape, was impressed with his resume from working junior games in Sudbury and the AHL Nova Scotia Voyageurs and asked: ‘Would you like the Leafs job?’

Convinced this was a prank by his friend, overnight host Allan Davis at CJCL, the flagship Leaf station, Bowen just snorted. It was so late in the summer, months after Bowen sent his tape and the day after his mortgage was okayed on a new house in Halifax.“F--- you,” Bowen boomed into the receiver, his pipes as powerful then as today at age 65. “I don’t need you being an a--hole.”

There was silence and then Bramson politely repeated himself, with Bowen slowly realizing this call was for real.“

I finally said: ‘Uh, this isn’t Allan Davis?’ Then I did the old Jackie Gleason ‘humana, humana,’ trying to figure out how to apologize. My dream job and I’d just told the guy to screw off. I’d have slit my wrists if there was anything sharp around.”

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