RIP Angelo Mosca

[DanOregon]

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/tiger-cats-great-angelo-mosca-dead-at-84-1.6240053

CFL Legend, perhaps best known in the states for this...

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Also a longtime pro wrestler who was a pretty big star in the 70s and early 80s. RIP

 

[maumann]

God bless Angelo Mosca. The 1963 Grey Cup incident wasn't even called a penalty (although it was definitely borderline), but the Vancouver press fueled the flames and Kapp never let it go.

Now THAT'S a feud worthy of a Marichal-Roseboro moment or Red Wings-Avalanche (hello, Claude Lemieux and Kris Draper!).

I wish I had a sworn enemy that I could beat the crap out of when I'm 73.

 

[swingline]

God bless Angelo Mosca. The 1963 Grey Cup incident wasn't even called a penalty (although it was definitely borderline), but the Vancouver press fueled the flames and Kapp never let it go.

Now THAT'S a feud worthy of a Marichal-Roseboro moment or Red Wings-Avalanche (hello, Claude Lemieux and Kris Draper!).

I wish I had a sworn enemy that I could beat the crap out of when I'm 73.

How big a boy are ya?

 

[misterbc]

My mother, for heavens sake, met Mosca and a few other Ti-Cats on a TCA (TransCanada Airlines) flight the day after a game in Winnipeg which Hamilton won. The flight stopped in Winnipeg, likely from Vancouver, on its way to Toronto and my Mum (English, don’t you know), a huge Bombers fan, was on her way to visit a friend of hers in Toronto the day after the game. She and my Dad went to most of games and they knew some of the players. Anyway she was reading the next days Winnipeg Free Press sports page she had bought at airport and had the paper wide open when this “huge man” as she put it stopped by her aisle seat when he saw her looking at the Sports and asked if she knew who ‘this guy’ was as he pointed to a picture. She said she wasn’t sure and he grinned and said “It’s me!” It was Angelo Mosca.
I heard her tell that story countless times and she got a kick out of it every time. It was about 1958 or 59.

 

[Huggy]

Interviewed Mosca 25 years ago (and he was a long way from the guy who got knocked around by Joe Kapp, he had the biggest hands of anyone I have ever met), very candid about his days in the CFL (he believed he could have become commissioner but was blackballed due to his attempts to create a players' association) and how he left the Eagles to come to Canada because it was paying more and they were offering offseason jobs (pretty sure he told me he wanted to become a teacher). He was hated across the CFL (aside from Hamilton) but loved as a wrestler.

My old man was an Argos season ticketholder and loathed Mosca as a Ti-Cat but cheered for him when he'd go up against the nefarious Sheik in the main event on Sunday nights at Maple Leaf Gardens.