Nuke Soccer

By Ben Knight Onward!

Keep sailing, Argos!
Years back, my memory recalls an incident in a prominent Northern Ontario city I’m just about certain was Sault Ste. Marie.

A major curling event was scheduled, and curling ice installed in the big arena. The local junior hockey team – displaced for two weeks by the intricate subtleties of high-level rock-throwing – were departing on an extended road trip.

But before they left, some of the players thought it would be amusing fun to don their blades, and do some hard skating drills on the curling ice.

The ice was destroyed. The event nearly had to be cancelled. Curlers the world over reacted in horror. Hockey folk didn’t much get what all the fuss was about.

And here we are again, perhaps – as one more time the Toronto Argonauts seek to cast their carnivorous cleats in the general direction of BMO Field.

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