Many people wanted to discuss happened at the Canadian Football League alumni luncheon. Joe Kapp, 73, fought an old C.F.L. adversary, Angelo Mosca, also 73, on the stage.
Drew Edwards of The Scratching Post blog, which covers the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, gave the background:
"The animosity between the two dates back to the 1963 Grey Cup game, when Mosca hit running back Willie Fleming with a shot that many – including Kapp – felt was dirty. It knocked Fleming from the game, which the Ticats won 21-10. Kapp refused to shake Mosca’s hand afterward."
Mosca said Kapp started things on Friday by swearing at him after he tried to say hello. Mosca was also quoted by Edwards as saying:
“They showed the Willie Fleming incident on the screen – it was like it was a setup. He comes up to me with a flower in his hand taken from the table, one of the centrepieces, and he sticks the flower in my nose.Then he shoves it in my nose. I reacted with my cane and then he punched me and I went down. Then he kicked me.”
Kapp, the only person to play quarterback in the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl and the Grey Cup, was later a head coach at Cal, most memorably when the Bears beat rival Stanford on a madcap series of laterals that culminated with a touchdown amid celebrating Stanford band members. Kapp said, “The Bear will not quit, the Bear will not die.” Apparently, the Bear does not forget either.
See video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrkEROiQsa8
Joe Kapp and Angelo Mosca get into a fight on stage at the 2011 CFL Alumni Legends Luncheon in Vancouver. It appears there is still some Bad blood between these two after a controversial hit on the field nearly 48 years ago....
Drew Edwards of The Scratching Post blog, which covers the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, gave the background:
"The animosity between the two dates back to the 1963 Grey Cup game, when Mosca hit running back Willie Fleming with a shot that many – including Kapp – felt was dirty. It knocked Fleming from the game, which the Ticats won 21-10. Kapp refused to shake Mosca’s hand afterward."
Mosca said Kapp started things on Friday by swearing at him after he tried to say hello. Mosca was also quoted by Edwards as saying:
“They showed the Willie Fleming incident on the screen – it was like it was a setup. He comes up to me with a flower in his hand taken from the table, one of the centrepieces, and he sticks the flower in my nose.Then he shoves it in my nose. I reacted with my cane and then he punched me and I went down. Then he kicked me.”
Kapp, the only person to play quarterback in the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl and the Grey Cup, was later a head coach at Cal, most memorably when the Bears beat rival Stanford on a madcap series of laterals that culminated with a touchdown amid celebrating Stanford band members. Kapp said, “The Bear will not quit, the Bear will not die.” Apparently, the Bear does not forget either.
See video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrkEROiQsa8
I put this on a blog about Boxing because it reminds me of the hatred Joe Frazier seemed to harbor against Muhammad Ali and because it shows the hot-headed behavior old men are capable of displaying. It is just lucky neither of them was packing a firearm....
Emotions run high in sports and fire-in-the-belly must be a character trait that stays long after you leave the game. They were not Greats in their sport because they lacked the kind of emotion to drive them forward. To go to the gym religiously and to take horrendous punishment in football games. Remember they competed 50 years ago when safety was not a first and foremost consideration. These guys really hurt each other..
Emotions run high in sports and fire-in-the-belly must be a character trait that stays long after you leave the game. They were not Greats in their sport because they lacked the kind of emotion to drive them forward. To go to the gym religiously and to take horrendous punishment in football games. Remember they competed 50 years ago when safety was not a first and foremost consideration. These guys really hurt each other..
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