I m going here. i was a bad boy. the bad boy of the league. he was playing for the hamilton tiger cats and the bad boy reputation is about to go from famous to infamous. it s nearing halftime at the game, the gray cop. his tiger cats are playing the british lions. number 15, willie fleming passed the ball and is on his way down to the ground when number 68 comes flying in to seal the deal. it was one of the bang, bang plays where i went over the top and caught the back of his head and there was no point. fleming gets away. fleming leaves the game with an injury. fleming appears injured.
fleming takes the pitch up and gets away and knabbs the elusive willie. fleming leaves the game with an injury. fleming appears injured. and maska s team goes on to win the game. i played the game the way it was designed to be played and it was just one of those unfortunate plays. just because i did it, just so happened i had a stigma attached to it that it was a dirty play. the bc lions exact revenge beating hamilton in the gray cup the following season, which would seemed to have settled the score, but did it? fast forward 48 years. it s november 2011 at the cfl alumni luncheon to raise
National football league, mosco decides to take his talents north. at the time, the canadian football league was paying bigger money than the nfl and i said, i don t know what the cfl is all about, but i know one thing. i m going here and i was a very bad boy, i was the bad boy of this league. in 1963, he is playing for the hamilton tiger cats and his bad boy reputation is about to go from famous to infamous. it s nearing half-time at the cfl championship game, the gray cup. his tiger cats are playing the british columbia lions. the lions number 15, willie fleming has the ball and is on his way down to the ground, when number 68 comes flying in to seal the deal. and it was one of those bang-bang plays where i went over the top and caught the back of his head and there was no penalty called on the play.
I wasn t there for the physical part of the whole thing. whatever joe was there for, he was there for the wrong reasons. capp apologizes for holding on to the past. all i can do is apologize. i hold a grudge for a long time, but i came here today, i had a flower in my hand and i tried to give it to this fellow. before capp leaves the stage, he tells one story too many about fleming s dog. apparently named after masca. fleming said, i named my dog angelo. my dog is angelo and i kicked the [ bleep ] out of that dog every day. one of the most discussed fights ever proves one thing that holding on to the gray cup can last but a moment, but holding on to the gray cup grudge can last a lifetime.
Awareness of the dire needs fund for cfl players with personal, physical and financial woes. the 74-year-old is seated at the same table as willie fleming s former teammate, joe capp, also in his 70s. i didn t even know he was going to be there. this was all news to me. capp who later went on to play in the nfl declined our request for an on-camera interview. however, they accuse one another of mumbling desparaging remarks while seats at the table. they just finished viewing the clip of the questionable play when they re asked to take the stage together. then in an act of half-hearted sentiment, capp appears to extend the olive branch to masca. when he stuck the flower in my face, i said, maybe you should stick it some place else. the crowd roars with approval, thinking it s all an act in good fun.