You don't have to know football ... to know Dick
For 5 years in the 1980s, I worked for International Sports Properties. We were a publishing/marketing/promotion company. A sports leader in Canada at that time. We created Canada's first sports magazine, MVP Magazine and published gameday programs for the Canadian Football League (CFL). Our publications, under the guidance of former NCAA Denver University superstar, Gerry Powers, were the gold standard for sports programs. For my USA friends ... the Canadian Football League has been around a while. One of the CLF's nine teams was the Toronto Argonaut Football Club founded in 1873 -- eight short years after the end of the US Civil War. For decades, the CFL has attracted several American football greats including "Swervin Mervin" Fernandez, Jeff Garcia, Fred Biletnikoff, Joe Kapp, Doug Flutie, Joe Theisman, Rocket Ismail (who signed for $4.5 million by owners; McNall, Gretzky and John Candy - at the time, nobody in the NFL or CFL made that much) and, of course, there