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Much Ado About Nothing

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77 I was at Varsity Stadium in downtown Toronto in 1952, at age 6, to watch the Toronto Argonaut Football Club of the  C anadian  F ootball  L eague (founded in 1873 - 150 years ago) win the Grey Cup Championship. The winning touchdown was recorded by a pass from Argo QB Nobby Wirkowski to tight end, Zeke O'Connor. 30 years later, I worked at Canada's largest sports magazine publishing company,  International Sports Properties.  Two of our products were the gameday magazine for the CFL teams and  The Grey Cup Magazine. As you may know, I've somehow led a charmed life and met several of my childhood sports heroes (the Notre Dame/Argo football star, Zeke O'Connor, may have been my first). These memorable encounters have helped me to create an essay/blog of my experiences which has attracted a readership of more than 30,000 people from around the world. Somehow, Zeke and I became 40-year-long friends. Once he'd retired from the sport, he became a senior executive at Se