The B.C. Lions are the 2011 CFL champions after dismantling the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 34 to 23 before a boisterous hometown crowd in Vancouver. Lions star quarterback Travis Lulay led the Lu-way for the Lions, airing out touchdown passes to Kierrie Johnson and Arland Bruce.
The Blue Bombers' Buck Pierce, suffice it to say, had no such luck in the air despite a late-game push. The Lions' victory is their first Grey Cup since 2006, and the franchise's fifth overall. It was also the first time since 1994 that a team that hosted the Grey Cup also won it. Head Coach Wally Buono also ties for the most ever Grey Cups won by a coach with five.
What should have been just another sleepy Canadian Football League alumni luncheon in Vancouver on Friday turned unexpectedly violent, when Joe Kapp, 73, former quarterback for the B.C. Lions, got into a fight with his longtime rival, 74-year-old Angelo Mosca, former defensive tackle for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
The brawl began with Kapp holding out a peace offering of a single flower, to which Mosca replied, "Stick it up your a$$," eliciting a big chuckle from the audience. Then Kapp took things a little further by pressing the flower in Mosca's face. Mosca swatted it away with his microphone, then Kapp hit back with the flower. Mosca retaliated with a wide swing of his cane, grazing Kapp. Kapp then proceeding to whale on Mosca with his fists, delivering one serious right to Mosca's jaw and sending Mosca tumbling through a banner and off the stage, to the gasps of the crowd. Then, finally, people stopped being entertained long enough to get out of their seats and break up the two curmudgeonly nemeses.
The bad blood between the two men apparently stems back to the 1963 Grey Cup — And we sports fans love our cups as much as we love our player-on-player violence — when Mosca used a controversial maneuver to knock Lions running back Willie Fleming out of the game.
Clearly, there's only one, reasonable way to put this 50-year-old rivalry to bed: Arm both men with crossbows and let them loose in the woods, and air the entire battle on pay-per-view. Let The Geezer Games commence!
The B.C. Lions are the 2011 CFL champions after dismantling the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 34 to 23 before a boisterous hometown crowd in Vancouver. Lions star quarterback Travis Lulay led the Lu-way for the Lions, airing out touchdown passes to Kierrie Johnson and Arland Bruce.