Leafs Fan With Incredible Mancave Tells OutKick About His Goal Beer Celebration Ahead Of Game 6

It's been 57 years since the Toronto Maple Leafs last won a Stanley Cup and God knows their fans know it. One fan has taken things to the extreme in the best way possible.

Meet Kurtis from Alberta. 

He's a 40-year-old financial advisor and father of four, who trades in penny loafers and suits for Maple Leafs gear every night in his mancave. Kurtis is pretty much a psychopath sports fan in the most admirable way possible, as shown by his most recent celebration video which took over sports social media this past week. The video, which shows Kurtis not only celebrating but crushing beers and cheering to a wall-full of Maple Leaf helmets has already garnered 4+ million views in just 24 hours.

Just watch this. Watch every single second of it and inject this kind of emotion into your veins this Thursday afternoon.

 

GREATEST MANCAVE OF ALL TIME

This truly is the video that keeps on giving.

You've got Kurt sitting in his mancave decked out in FULL Maple Leafs gear - including hockey socks and a damn helmet watching the game on a lovely Tuesday night. 

After the Leafs scored to force the Leafs-Bruins series to a Game 6 in Toronto later tonight, Kurt's reaction was EVERYTHING.

"GO LEAFS! See you Thursday, Toronto!!!" Kurt screams before absolutely crushing a beer and screaming "ANOTHER BEER!" Only, of course, after he takes a giant stuffed animal bear wearing a Bruins jersey, throws it off his couch and on the ground and STOMPS on him.

Then Kurt walks over to what every man needs in his mancave an automatic beer dispenser. Where he grabs another beer, proceeds to go to an absolute trophy room of Maple Leafs memorabilia - fresh with plexiglass cases, literally a hundred different jerseys and let's not forget - an array of hockey helmets to which Kurt then walks and taps each one with his beer can as if he was high-fiving them!  All before then crushing another beer in true Stone Cold Steve Austin style. (Kurt joked that at least he finishes them, unlike Austin.)

"I watch every single Leafs game in my mancave," Kurt told told OutKick. "If I have a funeral or a wedding, I will DVR the game and watch it back in real time. When I went to Vancouver and missed three Leafs games, I stayed off my phone for a week, so I wouldn't see any spoilers." 

And when Kurt got back home? 

"I watched all 3 games in one day," the superfan quickly shot back. 

But what about that insane celebration? It had to be for the camera, right?

Nope. It's 100% from the heart. 

"I will wear Leafs gear every time there's a game. My tradition for years has been to crush a beer after every time they score and then immediately grab another one and crush that one as well!" And as far as the helmet tap? "I only do that after the Leafs win the game."

Oh, well in that case! 

‘IF MY WIFE FOUND OUT HOW MUCH I SPENT, SHE’D DIVORCE ME'

Just how much has this Leafs superfan spent on his insane collection? 

"If I told you, my wife would immediately divorce me. I just hope that one day she doesn't sell it without getting as much as I spent in return!"

Kurt began building his Leafs' memorabilia collection 17 years ago. 

"Once I filled one wall, it became an addiction because then the other walls looked stupid. And then you do all the walls but then add display cases, and start wondering to yourself ‘How cool it would look to add hockey gloves behind it…' and it just goes from there." 

After certain games, Kurt will immediately hop on Amazon, eBay or auction sites to purchase more Leafs gear, especially after big wins that leave him a "bit sauced up" after crushing goal beers. 

 

WHAT ABOUT THE BEER DISPENSER?

"Everyone loves that!" Kurt gleefully told me with a slight hungover but gleeful tone to his voice. 

"It's not custom… I picked it up years ago as a soda machine and changed the logos and stocked it with beers." 

Molson Canadian is his beverage of choice, by the way.

Kurt has since become known around town as "The Maple Leaf guy," but for him the passion is real. "I tweeted out my purchased, non-refundable planet ticket to Toronto prior to our must-win Game 5 on Tuesday." 

Bizarrely enough, the Toronto Maple Leafs have NOT reached out to him. They still haven't even retweeted his video, which, honestly, I can't understand. This is one of the most viral hockey related fan videos in years, and for the Maple Leafs to go mum is crazy to me from a sports marketing standpoint. 

Why isn't Kurt front and center for tonight's Game 6?

Kurt says that he doesn't expect anything from the Maple Leafs, although he does acknowledge that it'd be cool if they did hook it up in some aspect. But for him, it's more about the organization that he has been a devout fan of - for better or worse (13 years ago, he saw a hypnotist to try and change his team's allegiance because he couldn't take the Leafs losing anymore).

Needless to say, the hypnotist didn't work. But one thing's for certain, make sure to follow Kurt's social account tonight, because if the Leafs win, oh my God, it's going to be wild.

THOUGHTS? TWEET ME: @TheGunzShow or email me: Michael.Gunzelman@OutKick.com

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Mike “Gunz” Gunzelman has been involved in the sports and media industry for over a decade. He’s also a risk taker - the first time he ever had sushi was from a Duane Reade in Penn Station in NYC.