32 ~— Friday, December 16, 1994 -

ONE RECENT weekend was
“another Grey Cup weekend,
“the 82nd Grey Cup weekend
in the history of the event.
This particular event had the B.C.
Lions battling the new-to-the-league
-: Baltimore no-namers,...° 0:
This is the second time in five
months that Vancouver has had one
f its professional sports teams fight-
ing for top honor in its league.»
However, it appeared that, prior
to the event, Vancouver had not gone
Lions crazy, as it did with the .
Canucks last season. ©.
‘I hadn’t noticed any banners’

hanging from buildings, The buses,

Stated their destination, rather than .
“Go Lions Go,” on their front desti-

Prior to the game, the radio

announcer was raving on about how '

the’ bookkee; pers in Las Vegas are ©

putting the Lions ahead by 4.1. Yet I
did not hear one stupid song about
how we were going to win the cup
and utterly, humiliate Baltimore i in

‘ the process. ere :
. [spent some time investigating

what other people thought about the’ -

“gens compared to last year’ s
: :- Canticks, a
I found that while tnost people:
“ were excited about the Grey Cup,

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they thought last season’s Stanley
Cup attempt was far more exciting. |
couldn't figure out why people were
just not quite as interested in the
’ Lions.

Both teams underwent similar
hardships, both scemed to be the
‘underdogs in the semi-final games
and they both had fairly decent sea-
sons,

Most people I spoke. with said.

that they just could not get as excited

‘about the Grey Cup. Could this pos-
sibly be because it is only one game
rather than a series?

Perhaps only after three or four
really exciting games is it possible
for a group of people, who aren't
sports fans, to get behind their team
and rally them to a victory or at least
a'second place finish.

Perhaps Vancouver is a hockey

‘town and people just aren’t as inter- -

ested in football.
I find this reasoning doubtful as
‘I’m sure a large percentage of the
people who were downtown for the

Canucks riot were not, in fact, hock- :

ey fans.

‘One impression | got was that
people just didn't seem to think the
Canadian Football League (CFL)
was as worthy a league as say the
National Football League (NFL). -
People seem to feel that the games

are not as exciting as those in the
American-based league. ‘
This is a shame, as the players in
‘the CFL are busting their butts for
only.a fraction of the salary the
players in the NFL make. .'

. These are the athletes who truly “
love the game. I bet if we gave a few
average players in the NEL the aver-
age salary for the CFL, at least a few

_ of them would find a way to 9 make
an easier living...

I watched the game, ‘or at least
most of it. Catching about half of the

game, I found it rather exciting and I *
_ don’t like football. I talked to some-":

“one who maintained that “‘the CFL

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66 The buses stated
their destination,
rather than
“Go Lions Go,”
on their front
destination board. 99

sucks. So do all the players. And all
the games are boring.”

After watching the Lions’ Lou
Pasagglia redeem himself by kicking
the winning field goal after missing
one just moments earlier, I wouldn't
mind seeing a football game that —
really i is exciting, ‘ :

Sean Frith isa 1 7-year-old
Grade 12 student at Argyle sec-. °
ondary school. He's into skiing and
music, and he hopes to travel and
become a race car driver.

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