An Unlikely Story

Howie Mooney of The Sports Lunatics is the author of "An Unlikely Story - How the 1981 Ottawa Roughriders Just Missed a Miracle" and he joins Travis Currah and Sheldon Jones to talk about the book and that 1981 team!

 

00:00 - Open

00:57 - Why release the book now?

04:20 - What was it like being an Ottawa fan that lost their franchise?

11:20 - Player turnover from the 1976 Grey Cup team

14:14 - Ottawa's 1981 regular season

19:24 - Edmonton coming in as 22.5 point favourites

21:42 - Ron Simmons on the team

22:16 - The week leading up to the game

26:26 - Catching Edmonton off guard

31:05 - Double Interference

33:35 - Tony Gabriel

36:24 - What does this team represent?

41:23 - Where can we get the book?

 

 

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