Replay of a 50 year old grudge match - CFL style!

There have been many rivalries that have spilled over into the public forum over the decades. It is said (by people who are completely wrong) that World War 2 started over the loss of a soccer ball that was never returned to it's rightful owners. Small towns throughout North America have stories of local gangs (or 'teams' as their PR department prefers to call them) meeting up long after the game is over to settle grudges that should have been kept on the field or ice. Boxers once were quite famous for attempting to beat each other up before they even were supposed to fight each other in the ring.

But you would be hard pressed to find a stranger, longer-lasting rivalry between these 2 CFL legends, Joe Kapp (the skinny one) and Angelo Mosca, 2 Canadian warriors from the old days before electricity and TSN was invented.

They went at it toe to geriatric toe at a CFL alumni luncheon a couple of years ago; a public relations coup for the Grey Cup party being held that week. At a time when most old people are just waiting to die, these two are still fighting because...damn it, they're CFL'r's. That's the way they roll....

Apparently this may have had something to do with Hamilton's 21-10 win over B.C. in the 1963 Grey Cup, when Mosca delivered a controversial hit that knocked Lions star running back Willie Fleming out of the game. This was the last time in CFL history that 'Hamilton' and 'Grey Cup' and 'win' was used.

Personally, I loved their comments here after the fight was broken up;

"Somebody hit me on the side of the head with a cane — a club — so I had to respond," Kapp said. "I don't think there's any person anywhere that wouldn't respond the way I did."

I love how he says 'somebody'. There was only 1 person on that stage with a cane and Kapp apparently has already forgotten who it was.  Plus, you know who wouldn't respond that way, Mr. Kapp?  Someone 73 years old!  

Then, there's the other side of the story, the guy who got one-punched:

Mosca said things got heated after he had a "dead-ass flower" shoved in his face.

"I don't care if you're the King or the Queen, you're not going to shove something in my face and get away with it," Mosca said from his Hamilton home.

Man, I feel sorry for his grandkids trying to give him presents. Seems a bit silly to try to lead with a cane unless you are Daredevil, it's a dead giveaway that you probably aren't the most stable of people while standing.