Chris Schultz has passed away

[OV Argo]

Started watching the 91 GC game on YouTube - to get to watch the great Schultzie in action; still say that 91 Argo GC team could match-up with the great 96/97 teams - maybe better overall talent on D; scary talent in the receiving corps (DK Smith, the Rocket, David Williams and Masotti (just emerging as a receiver force); studs on the O-line in Schultz, Ferrone & Beckstead; and Dunigan maybe not Flutie but close in all-time CFL QB talent, IMO; has another CFL team ever had as dangerous a return duo of Pinball & the Rocket available ? Chomyck was a great place kicker back then (but did miss an easily makeable FG early in the game) plus the booming punt leg of Hank the Shank (not a good FG kicker); but Vanderjagt was pretty excellent in a dual role for the 96/97 teams

Notes:

= great era of CFL ball 80s into the early 90s; freezing cold but jam packed crowd in the Peg

- loved the bravado of the Argo D in the player intros - all walking out calmly in the cold with their helmets held high - remember that (watching on TV) like it was yesterday !





- Wayner Gretzky - Argo part owner - interviewed early in the game on the sidelines (RIP Walter)

- these were 2 pass first offences; Stumps offence going mostly empty backfield / 6 pack on offence ( i'm only in the first half so far; they did introduce Keyvan Jenkins & Andy McVey (very solid fullback) as starters, but they weren't on the field much - love to see some CFL teams go to that look now as a change of pace; Huff was the OC for the Stumps then under Wally (?); but the Argo D seemed to stick mostly in standard 4-3 in response ? good thing it was the average at best Danny Barrett at QB for them and not that Flutie guy who led them to GC win the very next season

- counting 10 Canadian Argo starters in the game: 5 O-linemen (CFL time when most O-lines were composed of only Canadians) + Masotti & Kevin Smellie (another solid fullback); and on D - Mike Campbell, Don Moen & David Bovell (at safety - Argos picked him up from the Bummers where he had been a star D player on their GC team the previous season; faded away to a short CFL career ?) = CFL dupe "fans" & media now who complain about Canadian talent & "ratio problems" should be force fed to watch this era of CFL ball, IMO

- Chris Schultz injured in the first half - went down low to just smoke the Stamps DE (Cofield ?) on the play, but caught his thigh in the head - seemed almost knocked -out and took awhile to get up off the turf



Anyhow - great Argo memories, and again - RIP Mr. Schultz; gotta get back to watching the remainder of that great Argo game !

[paulwoods13]

Chris Schultz injured in the first half - went down low to just smoke the Stamps DE (Cofield ?) on the play, but caught his thigh in the head - seemed almost knocked -out and took awhile to get up off the turf

Schultzie got knocked cold, and sat out several series. Under today's concussion protocols, there's almost no chance he would be allowed back into the game. In those days, everyone described it as "getting your bell rung." He told me he has no memory of the second quarter, but at halftime things cleared up for him. "If that had been modern football, I would have been done for the night and it would have been obvious."