Dan Carey didn't think he was too competitive. Growing
up in Winnipeg, he could gauge his drive against older brother
Bill, and everything seemed fine. After his hockey aspirations were
thwarted by a broken arm, and having seen Bill win a Brier as third
for Barry Fry, Dan decided that curling might be the path to feed
his hunger for competition. Following a decade of near
misses, Dan re-teamed with Vic Peters in 1991. Joined by long
time playing partner Don Rudd at lead and Vic's teammate Chris
Neufeld at second, the Peters Rink stumbled early in
the season, but eventually won Manitoba and found themselves
in the Labatt Brier final against Russ Howard of Ontario. Dan
shares his thoughts on that game and the strange and unscrupulous
happenings from one year later at the 1993 Brier. He'll
explain why the Peters rink often felt labeled as a
"black hat" team, and who appeared to wear the white hats. We'll do
a deep dive on the 1997 Brier final against Kevin Martin.
Played in the Calgary Saddledome, in front of perhaps the
largest crowd in history, the bizarre see-saw game was unlike any
before or since.