the grey cup, canada's super bowl, is being played in vancouver today. the home town b.c. lions represent the western conference so a few b.c. lions from the past are part of the festivities. one of the biggest stars of the past is joe kapp. he led the lions to their first grey cup victory in 1964. joe went on to become a star in the national football league leading the minnesota vikings to the super bowl and then a semi big-shot college coach.
angela mosca was a defensive player for the hamilton tiger cats in the 1963 grey cup and injured one of the best players on the b.c. lions with a late dirty hit. angela was public enemy number one in b.c. and went on to become a famous bad guy pro rassler. joe and angela met up this weekend in a grey cup event and all hell broke loose. the two 73 year olds exchanged words and one thing lead to another. angela hit joe with his cane and joe punched his lights out:
oh yeah, the game is being played in our newly renovated stadium. about 500 million bucks were spent on renovating the stadium with the main upgrade being a retractable roof. it's been pissing down rain all weekend and guess what, the feckin roof leaks!
years ago the grey cup was known as the national drunk but things have changed and only a small fraction of canadians will get shit faced this weekend and sadly i won't be one of them. shit, you can't even get drunk and drive home these days.
i love you sons of bitches.
25 comments:
Hahaha..
I've been expecting gas to go up in price but it's been coming down some, whats with that?
I filled up yesterday for
$3.449 a gallon, with my ten cent Safeway discount.
If I drink too much in Monkeyville I take a cab home.
Sounds wonderful. Enjoy the moment!
oh my fucking Goddess..I laughed so hard I damn near fell out of the chair..I fucking love you Canaderians.
Haha, I love watching old guys throw punches! Here's Buzz Aldrin smacking the jaw of a man much younger than him.
Buzz Aldirn is a type A personality, you shouldn't fuck with those types.
Great post. Great story. I remember them both quite well.
lmao! Go Joe!
Sounds like it will be a great game in a fun place. At least it will be easier to find your way home. I'm sure you will enjoy the heck out of it.
My old school district bought a fancy retractable roof for the outdoor swimming pool. The first year the roof caved in when they had a heavy snow fall. So it goes.
bill - we're $1.30 per liter. so about $5.50/gallon.
shaw - i hope the blue bombers haven't borrowed tim thomas for the game.
yellowdog - joe kapp has been a hero in vancouver for almost 50 years.
gb - i had a 70 year old sensai who was the toughest guy i ever met.
bob - nice to see angelo get wacked!
silly - we had an open air stadium and everyone complained about the rain so a domed stadium was built then everyone complained about not having fresh air so now we have a $500,000,000.00 retractable roof that leaks. if the stadium was 50 miles to the south we could blame obama.
I watched the long version of that video, don't wanna fuck with my type A personality if you bring it to the front. Monkeys have been known to get hurt when that happens.
bill - are telling me that you could beat the crap out of joe kapp?
no guns allowed.
No, I'm not telling you that, but I'm not using a cane and can still sling my own punches, the match will determine the winner.
You win some, you lose some, mostly I've been on the winning side.
we won!!! 34-23
*LMAO* Fkn HILARIOUS! Some things never change.
I think I'll go boating today.
Woot! 34-23 sounds like a game that was good to watch. Close enough for action on both ends. Very cool beans!
silly - the lions were up by 22 points with about 4 minutes left and the blue bombers scored 2 quick touchdowns. they tried an onside kick with a little over a minute left but it didn't go 10 yards. in the CFL you can run about 50 plays in the last 3 minutes. i once saw a team run 3 plays with 7 seconds left and they didn't go out of bounds!
I got somethin' to beat BOTH em with...
Your clip made it onto our national news last night. The man just about split a gut laughing. =:]
Your clip made it onto our national news last night. The man just about split a gut laughing. =:]
silly - pretty soon we'll be of that age. i think i'll use a cane even if i don't need one.
Mark Wilk screwed up your video but I think I've seen it.
Maybe I'll start carrying a cane and parking in handicapped parking and give anyone who tries to stop me a good cane thrashing.
What appears to be my cane will also be a gun.
A gift for you.
Angelo Mosca was from Waltham, Mass.--[I lived there for 3 years.]
He and Tom McNeely, who played football for Arlington [Mass.} High School, had several confrontations behind an ice cream parlor in Arlington, Mass., Buttrick's.
McNeely, who lived in Arlington, would show up with his supporters, and Angelo Mosca had a caravan of 4to 6 cars that would slowly drive into the parking lot behind Buttrick's, and then engage in these pre-planned fights. McNeely, BTW, was crazy and would often pick fights with state cops.
Angelo was huge, but McNeely was a pretty good athelete, played football for Michigan State.
McNeely proceeded to beat the shit out of Mosca at these little get togethers. But, after a few beatings, Mosca's boys pulled guns out of their pockets, and scared the crap out of McNeeley's crowd, and they'd run away.
The Arlington cops knew all about these confrontations and did nothing to stop them, being supporters of McNeeley.
Tom McNeeley went on to become a professional boxer, losing, in a title fight, to Floyd Patterson in the pathetic city of Toronto.
Angelo Mosca ended up beating the crap out of someone with his cane.
This story was dictated to me by a Mr. Kelley, whose mother once dated Tom McNeeley's father, and whose son once sparred with Tom McNeeley's son, Peter, in Gold's Gym. This Mr. Kelley grew up in Arlington, Mass., and played hockey for M.I.T., class of '58, the only physics major to do so at the time.
His nose was broken many times and he has scars from stopping pucks all over his face.
Poo-tee-weet!
I hope there's a new post I can see here before leaving on Monday.
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