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The Acton Free Press Wed October 13 1976 Fool ball and sanity Now that the hockey hysteria Is over we armchair athletes can settle into the football season and lend our expertise so lately freely offered to Bowman and the Canadian team to those who really need it like the hapless Russ Jackson and the hopeless Toronto must confess that I m not as keen on football as I once was When I was a young buck I was crazy about it I knew all the players in the big league all the standings all the records When I was a kid we lived not too far from Ottawa and 1 saw some of the greats in action Dave Sprague Bummer Stirling Tony When I was about 14 my big brother took me lo a Grey Cup final a classic between Winnipeg and Ottawa with the great little Fritz Hanson one of the first American imports scampering around on the field like a waterbug on a pond until he was finally crushed by some huge homebrew a behemoth like Bunny of the Rough Riders Those were the days when people went to watch football games because they loved the game not because It was a status symbol to have a ticket and also a great occasion for weekend binge My first Grey Cup game was also my introduction to rye whiskey sat between two French Canadian gentlemen about football They had a mickey of rye After a particularly great piny they have a polite swig each to keep out the bitter November chill With Gallic grace they offered me a slug My Methodist background and teetotal parents made me exclaim with horror But my 14 yearold spirit of adventure made me wet my lips with one eye on my brother 1 ve had a warm spot for the combination of football French Canadian gentlemen and rye whiskey ever since My mother would have killed me if she d been Nowadays a kid like that would probably have a mickey of his own Or worse he d be bludgeoned to death by some drunken woman behind him pounding on his head and screaming Go Stamps Go even though she know the difference between a wide end and a big bum In high school I played junior then senior football My best friends were the Jocks on the football team rather than the academic types the boys In the school orchestra the members of the students council Autumns were not school work They were long months of crisp fall afternoons tackling running throwing passing Then the hot shower and the painful limp a mile home through an October dark with a sprained ankle or a loose tooth And the occasional day of glory when we stuck it to Smiths Falls or Carle ton Place and the cheers were like Manna In those days there was no money for fancy uniforms buses to out of town games Most of us wore homemade pads with felt from the local felt mill There were about half a dozen helmets for the two teams When we played town parents and teachers transported the team In their own cars When we played a home game every student and lots of town The coach volunteer Times change In the high school in which 1 teach with a student population of I my own high school had 400 its impossible year to muster two teams senior and junior We be lucky to have one Because of education cut backs there no money for buses to transport the teams When we do have a home game the students leave in hundreds to walk the streets or just goof around It sort of sad Football used to be character building even though you wound up with a tooth or two missing and a glmpy knee But if you weighed and tackled some brute of 190 you knew you were on your way lo being a man In my day the emphasis was on offense running passing trick plays But with the massive influx of the American game the emphasis on defense and television to show It all the game has become almost dull except for the odd brilliant outburst of speed by some guy who is being paid a phenomenal sum for his skill And the main Idea now is hitting That Is the player tries to collide with an op ponent with such force and in such a way that the latter will be injured And if it requires breaking the rules deliberately as 1 seen it done for example on kick returns then go ahead Take the penalty as long as you con hit injure the kick returner when hes not set for a collision It dirty dirty I went to university and I played there And I watched Joe Krol and and company and it was still great tensive and a defensive team we used to play minutes both ways and the chief aim seems to be to disable the op position No wonder It losing Its popularity with today students They are not so dumb One of high school coaches revealed the new altitude When he remonstrated with one of his rookies Hit Hit the kid retorted Why should I hit him He my friend Another kid started walking off the field in the middle of a play Hey Where you going the coach wanted to know The kid said I m gonna have a rest It may not be football and it may make coaches grind their teeth the jawbone but It sanity Of this and that We should stop blaming others for our failures and put the blame where it belongs We are all responsible for our own lives and should take 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