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Grayson Joseph is only 7 years old but he’s probably one of Auston Matthews’ biggest fans. To show his dedication to the Toronto Maple Leafs captain, Grayson is dressing up as an Auston Matthews hockey card for Halloween!
In a recent TikTok video, Grayson’s dad, Grant, pleaded with his audience to help the video of his son’s costume go viral.
@grantjosephmusic You know what to do!! Let’s help Grayson meet Auston Matthews and show off his 1 of 1 hockey card costume!! 🙌 @Toronto Maple Leafs #austonmatthews #mapleleafs #torontomapleleafs #Toronto #halloweencostume #halloween #costume #hockeycards ♬ original sound – Grant Joseph
“You know what to do!! Let’s help Grayson meet Auston Matthews and show off his 1 of 1 hockey card costume!!🙌 @Toronto Maple Leafs” Grant wrote, alongside a TikTok of Joseph dressed in costume.
“Let’s goooo” the seven-year-old said in the video, before spinning around for viewers to see his fully decked-out 3D card costume, complete with a Matthews-style mustache and a Bauer hockey helmet.
“I love it,” Grayson told his dad about the ensemble, adding that he hoped to show the costume to Matthews in person. The video was posted on Sunday but already has well over a million views and over 130,000 likes. The Leafs even commented on the TikTok, writing “This is unreal!!!!!”. Best of all — Matthews himself reposted it to his IG stories, with a fire emoji and the caption: “It’s pretty cool!”
Grant told CP24 that his son got the idea for the costume when he saw a Stephen Curry ‘Golden State Warriors trading card costume’ online.
“When [Grayson] saw it instantly, he goes, ‘I wanna be Austin Matthews’ and I’m looking at this thing, I’m like, it’s gonna be really difficult and probably expensive,” Grant told the news agency.
With help from a design company, in a little over a week, an exact replica of a recently released Matthews trading card was complete.
“They literally took our vision and just put it together to a tee of what we were looking for, if not even better,” Grant added, noting that the end result looks “so good.”
There’s no word yet on whether Matthews will meet his superfan, but you can get your Leafs fix by catching the team as they take on the Seattle Kraken on Halloween night at Scotiabank Arena.
