One of my best memories of Dieter Brock was watching him a day after he got out of hospital from back spasms as he launched 50+ yard bombs into the teeth of a howling wind at Exhibition Stadium in front of almost 55,000 fans (about 15,000 - 20,000 from Hamilton) in the1983 Eastern final against Condredge Holloway and the Argos. My Cats lost one of the best Eastern Finals ever played - a game in which Brock was amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4eLen8at4M
Tomorrow I'll make my first visit for a football game on the site of that game since the late 80's - as I head into TO to cheer on my Cats at BMO Field.
Ralph "Dieter" Brock suffered the indignity of not being a particularly bright QB - plus he had some of the worst mopes in bomber history as his coaches.
If I recall:
Bud Riley (a spectacular super dud)
Ray Jauch (a selfish self-imploder)
Things happen , not everybody lived their life perfectly like you !
Lets talk about Rider fans booing Ron Lancaster off the field in his last game in Regina !!! Way to send a legend out the right way :thup:
I remember Dieter winning the MOP award in 1980 and 1981.
The more commonly held view these days is that Warren Moon was hands down the best player in the league during the six years he played here. In actual fact, for three of those years another QB won the MOP award (Holloway too) before Moon finally got his first one in his last season (1983). And for his first couple of seasons, he wasn't even the starting QB on his own team.
But Moon was a great player who played on some great teams. I wonder how the Esks dynasty would have fared - or the Bombers - had there been a Moon-for-Brock trade in the late 1970s?
Brock was the better pure passer than Moon . Moon could get out of the pocket and make plays . Brock probably is most underrated QB of all time in the cfl.
I remember Brock in the NFL as a 34 year old rookie. He did reasonably well as the starter but after the loss in the playoffs, the fans treated him like a bum which in my opinion was unfair.