TORONTO — The Canadian Football League has released the following statement regarding the passing of Joe Kapp.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.cfl.ca/2023/05/09/cfl-statement-on-the-passing-of-joe-kapp/
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.cfl.ca/2023/05/09/cfl-statement-on-the-passing-of-joe-kapp/
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When I was nine years old, I went to get Joe Kapp’s autograph when he played in Calgary. I didn’t have a pen so he ruffled my hair and promised me that autograph the next time I saw him. Right after that, he was traded to BC. I have been a Lions fan ever since and still consider him the greatest of all time. No one, not even Nathan Rourke, will ever change that because I will never be nine years old again.
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Sorry I do not share in tribute to a man who held a grudge for year’s then when he had an occasion to meet with the man he hated he through a sucker punch at him.
My son-in-law, who claims to be the biggest Tigercat fan in Saskatchewan (he also loves the Riders, what a strange combination), shares that opinion with you. We’ve had many an interesting discussion over the past 20 years and the Kapp-Mosca incident keeps popping up.
I just checked Wikipedia for more info on Angelo Mosca. He was kicked out of Notre Dame for bookmaklng. He then enrolled at Wyoming, where he was kicked out for theft and selling the items he stole. After his playing days we went into the “honorable” profession of professional “wrestling”. My guess is that he was probably a very dishonorable (dirty) person during his playing days also.
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That was no sucker punch. AM started the confrontation by being an ass instead of just being willing to let bygones be bygones.
What if he had connected when he swung his cane at Kapps head?
What would you do?
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Joe, R I P, the single Greatest CFL play of all time was the battle of Joe and the villainess Anglo at a 2011 gathering. Two old, decrepit seniors were still fighting, with canes, over an ancient GC from when? You just don’t get this passion from anywhere else, only the crazy CFL. Thank you for the memories. And bless both of them.
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Joe was a class act. In Van., joe offered the jerk mosca a flower. Mosca swung his metal handled cane at Joe’s head and Joe smacked him a couple of times. Mosca was a crook and a dirty player. I wear #22 Joe was great, mosca was a jerk.
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Imagine an alternate reality where a team quarterbacked by Joe Kapp plays a team quarterbacked by Chris Streveler.
I AGREE JOE DID NOTHING WRONG WHEN HE OFFERED ANGELO A FLOWER, MOSKA COULD HAVE MADE A JOKE OF IT BUT INSTEAD TRIED TOO LIVE UP TO HIS BAD BULLY IMAGE AND SWUNG HIS CANE AT JOE. FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH, MOSKA WAS A DIRTY PLAYER AND HIS DIRTY HIT ON JOE’S TEAMMATE WAS WHAT STARTED ALL THIS. IN ANY EVENT BOTH RIP!
I can tell you from watching him for many years that Angelo Mosca was by far the dirtiest player in the league. He was a total jerk. He loved to injure other players. The illegal piling on out of bounds that put Willie Fleming out of the 1963 Grey Cup Game probably cost the Lions the game. I have no respect for Mosca. Kapp, on the other hand, was a class act.