‘Go Broncos Go:’ Cheers and tears at funeral for ‘underdog’ killed in bus crash
HUMBOLDT, Sask. — Chants of “Go Broncos Go” rang through the rafters during a young hockey player’s funeral on Friday after his mother asked mourners to cheer for him one last time at his home rink.
Celeste Leicht asked the 2,500 people who filled Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, Sask., to chant 11 times, followed by 11 seconds of horns and noisemakers, to honour her son’s jersey number.
“I think it will be a beautiful send-off to my beautiful boy,” she said.
Jacob Leicht, 19, was one of 16 people who died after a transport truck and a bus carrying the Humboldt junior hockey team collided last Friday at a rural Saskatchewan intersection.