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>You can remember when they built the replay screen at the south end of Empire Stadium - but the league refused to allow them to show instant replays in case it showed the officials had made a mistake! Instead, it just ran ads.

>The Beefeater Band, under the direction of Gordon Olson, would always, and I mean always, play "Hi, Neighbour" to salute the fans who came up from the US to attend the game.

>Section EE in the northeast corner of Empire was the CKNW '98 Club. We would get coupons for discounts at places like Captain George's Fish & Chips and Texan Burgers. We would sometimes win record albums (they always had a little hole punched in the corner of the sleeve so we wouldn't be able to take them to a store for a refund or to exchange them for an album we really wanted). Because the seating at Empire was just planks, we had our own '98 Club portable folding seats that had a canvas seat back and a cushion for your butt.

>In 1967 they actually brought in a soccer player to kick field goals! A SOCCER player!! But Ted Gerela did more than just kick the ball. When he retired after the 1973 season he also had 2 interceptions as a backup DB, 16 carries for 82 yards as a backup fullback, and as a kick returner he had 19 kickoff returns for 227 yards and 3 punt returns for 15 yards. He won the CFL West scoring title in 1968 with 30 FGs which at the time was a single-season record in professional football.

- no blocking on punts.

- Defensive back Craig Murray knocked himself out running into the goal post

Lions had an official marching band

Really? Any critiques? Were they any good? Where did they come from?
Wow! Sounds cool!
I always thought they could get more high schools involved. Cheer leader teams.
High school cheerleaders, WITH the Lion dancers.
High school bands? I know N. Burnaby has a pretty good one.
Just wondering.

QB Club 63 wrote: >In 1967 they actually brought in a soccer player to kick field goals! A SOCCER player!! But Ted Gerela did more than just kick the ball. When he retired after the 1973 season he also had 2 interceptions as a backup DB, 16 carries for 82 yards as a backup fullback, and as a kick returner he had 19 kickoff returns for 227 yards and 3 punt returns for 15 yards. He won the CFL West scoring title in 1968 with 30 FGs which at the time was a single-season record in professional football.

His brother Roy had a bit of success as a football kicker too, but he never made the CFL.

zark wrote:

Lions had an official marching band

Really? Any critiques? Were they any good? Where did they come from?
Wow! Sounds cool!
I always thought they could get more high schools involved. Cheer leader teams.
High school cheerleaders, WITH the Lion dancers.
High school bands? I know N. Burnaby has a pretty good one.
Just wondering.

The Beefeaters were pretty good. Dal Richards and his band were atrocious IMO. Their marching were always out of sync.

Good, retrospective topic, David.

Toppy Vann wrote:> Normie Kwong the China Clipper had a car wash on Hastings Street.

Or how about the first of very few Japanese-Canadians for the Lions or the CFL, Joe Yamauchi who played Linebacker, Fullback, and Guard for the Lions from 1957-60. He first played for the Stampeders.
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I forgot Dal Richards and Roar you Lions Roar - that band was great. Some very talented musicians made Lions fans happy and in some very bad weather.

Dal Richards should be in the Hall of Fame somewhere. He has played at the roof of the Van. Hotel and other venues for so many years nearly all of BC must have seen or heard his group.

Toppy Vann wrote: > Joe Kapp was big for peanut butter ads.

I bet there's still quite a few that call him "Peanut Butter Joe"..........BUT......do you remember what brand of peanut butter? (cause I don't).

Shi Zi Mi wrote:

Toppy Vann wrote: > Joe Kapp was big for peanut butter ads.

I bet there's still quite a few that call him "Peanut Butter Joe"..........BUT......do you remember what brand of peanut butter? (cause I don't).

Squirrel Peanut Butter.

Shi Zi Mi wrote:

Toppy Vann wrote: > Joe Kapp was big for peanut butter ads.

I bet there's still quite a few that call him "Peanut Butter Joe"..........BUT......do you remember what brand of peanut butter? (cause I don't).

Here is the ads and glass for this:

http://www.joekapp.com/elmercado/DanCas ... items.html

My Joe Kapp Squirrel glass was my first CFL collectible, followed closely by Nally's CFL player coins. I think I could easily name the starting lineup of all teams because I had their plastic coins.

Forget "goalie graveyard," you know you've been following the Leos a long time when you remember this city being a "quarterback graveyard."

Between Joe Kapp in 1966 and Jerry Tagge in 1977, B.C. went through a dry spell - check that....more like a "Mojave Desert" of elite quarterbacking. And no one felt the wrath of the Empire crowd more than Oregon State's Paul Brothers (1968-71). Boos would routinely rain down on him - even in preseason - as his poor wife Karen sat helplessly in her seat listening to the catcalls. While he didn't have a lot of top notch targets to throw to (other than Hall-Of-Famer Jim Young), Brothers didn't help his cause by being the king of the ill-timed interception. He threw an astounding 33 in '69 (16 game season) and I believe he once tossed 6 picks in one game!

He's now living in Eugene Oregon where he's become a successful high school coach. Here's a pic of him in 1970 and today:



DH

I hope he doesn't coach quarterbacks. Watching Paul Brothers try to play quarterback was excruciating.

TheLionKing wrote:I hope he doesn't coach quarterbacks. Watching Paul Brothers try to play quarterback was excruciating.

Brothers was not a bad QB just not brought in and developed and given a chance. That was era back then. Play now or be cut. The other option (not a development one was to ride the guy hoping he'd learn on the job). He didn't. Wally does it differently as he was around then. He would have made a top player out of Paul Brothers.

The "doldrums" for the Lions.

Don Moorhead. Turning to lateral directly behind himself. He does not seem to actually look. He shovels it back. No one there. The ball rolls on the ground for a while before it is recovered. Can't remember by which team.

Paul Brothers. Not a fast runner. About the turtle pace of most punters. Desperately running to his left, trying to avoid another sack. Throwing off-balance. Interception.

Ernie Afaganis. In a trailer outside the south end of Empire Stadium. Finding soothing words for Lions' fans in pain, after another loss.