A Hamilton man’s last wish was for the Toronto Maple Leafs to be the pallbearers at his funeral “so they could let him down one last time.”

Terrance “Terry” Siebert died this week at 57, according to his death notice published Thursday in the Hamilton Spectator.

The Toronto Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup in 1967. Their championship drought of 47 years is the longest in the NHL.

It’s an old, if bittersweet, sports joke.

A Cleveland man and lifelong Browns fan made the same request in The Columbus Dispatch last year and earlier this summer a Minnesota man asked that the Vikings carry his coffin in the Pioneer Press.

A British radio broadcaster and fan of the Everton Football Club made the same joke often, according to his 2013 obituary.