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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A knock-down brawl between two 73-year-old Canadian Football League veterans at a luncheon is rivaling talk about the 99th Grey Cup game they were promoting.
In the run-up to Sunday's national championship between the host British Columbia Lions in Vancouver and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the CFL held a luncheon for past players.
Living in the Denver area, our independent TV station carried CFL games for years in the late 60's to mid 70's. The CFL started their season a few months before the NFL started theirs. The club I followed back then was the Calgary Stampeders.
Angela Mosca was a 15 year defensive tackle CFL veteran, and played with Hamilton, Ottowa, Montreal, and then back to Hamilton. Though he was a 5 time CFL All Star, he had that "Ben Davidson" reputation about him. (Oakland Raider fans certainly could fill in the newbies regarding HIM).
And for people who aren't familiar with Kapp, he was quarterback for the British Columbia Lions for several years before signing with Minnesota. Bud Grant brought him there and Grant was a former CFL coach himself. Rest assured the two players exchanged pleasantries on a regular basis. The CFL is an 8 team league and if memory serves they played a 14 game schedule so each club had a home and away game amongst them. After Kapp left the NFL after 1970, he got involved in acting for a time and I believe he was the University of California's head coach in that famous Stanford/California "the band is out on the field" game in 1982.
Angelo Mosca on the other hand became a WWF broadcaster and I believe he later managed his sons wrestling career. Plus he had his own wrestling career himself, billing himself as "King Kong" Mosca. It seems a little bit of acting was in his blood as well! lol
The reason for the dinner the two attended was the Grey Cup Championship was held Sunday and from what I remember there is a certain amount of partying, banquets, etc., honoring past CFL all-stars. BC won the Grey Cup Championship btw.
Kapp was/is one of a kind and us long-time Viking fans know that he was the QB that led us to respectability in the late 60's and unfortunately became the league's first free-agent soon after.
Kapp reportedly had an after-hours fight with Linebacker Lonnie Warick in those early years in where each of the two were insisting on taking the blame for a recent loss which led to somebody's garden being destroyed.
I also remember after the '69 season, Kapp got up at the awards banquet to receive the team MVP and snarled, "there ain't no MVP and their ain't no Santy Claus or Easter Bunny neither"
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