Kapp apologizes for role in Grey Cup dust-up
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JOE Kapp is still holding out a figurative bunch of flowers to those who watched him and Angelo Mosca engage in a fight that nearly overtook Grey Cup week, but it is clear he isn’t backing down.
The Canadian Football Hall of Fame quarterback who brought honour and the 1964 Grey Cup to the B.C. Lions apologized Tuesday for his part in what has become a legendary scrap with the former lineman of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, which brought dishonour to a CFL Alumni Association luncheon.
But he sounded anything but contrite by suggesting he was only acting in self-defence when Mosca hit Kapp with his cane and became YouTube material for their ensuing dust-up.
“Am I the bad guy?” Kapp asked over the phone from his home in Los Gatos, Calif., before heading to a medical appointment to examine the extent of injuries suffered when the two septuagenarians squared off, appropriately enough, at the Beatty St. Armory.
The incident began with two being introduced on a stage when Kapp walked over to Mosca and tried to hand him flowers as a peace offering. Mosca is best remembered in Vancouver for a hit on Lions’ Willie Fleming that proved to be a pivotal play in the 1963 Grey Cup at Empire Stadium.
Kapp said he had let the play go and was only living in the moment when Mosca waved his cane in his direction, denying the incident was staged so the former Hamilton great could sell a book.
— Postmedia News