You have to have a bit of sympathy to both the Lions and the Bombers this weekend, if it wasn't the kids trying to steal away the spotlight, it was the septuagenarians grabbing some of the buzz from Grey Cup Weekend.
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The now much documented punch up between Angelo Mosca and Joe Kapp has gone beyond the realm of You Tube, gaining wide exposure in the US, with two high profile appearances one on Monday Night Football featured on Chris Berman's Cmon' Man segment of the weekly Monday Night show.
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Berman did pay tribute to some actual Canadian Football later on in the Monday Night show, rolling the highlights of the Bombers/Lions game during the half time three minute reel, but for entertainment value it would seem that the slug fest of the seventy somethings was the main attraction.
One of the other notable mentions was on the on Fox News prime time program with Shepard Smith, who featured the dust up as his closing item on his 7 pm news program.
Beyond that, we're pretty sure it made a wide range of "local" sports casts across America over the last few days.
While the actual nastiness does in reflection seem kind of foolish, at the moment we have no doubt of the earnest nature of both men, who clearly still carry the burden of animosities some forty years old now.
You have to wonder what Willie Fleming would think of it all.
There indeed is no feud like an old feud.
Makes you kind of wonder just what it takes to make someone snap and who might next make it to the YouTube roll of fame...
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