1981 to 1983 season thread

[Will]

I felt kinda bad in what's supposed to be an RIP Bud Riley thread having taken the topic so off-topic so I start a new thread

1981 season:	Week 1	Thu Jul 2 1981	at Tor	Saskatchewan 19, Toronto 18
1981 season:	Week 2	Fri Jul 10 1981	at Mtl	Montreal 23, Toronto 22
1981 season:	Week 3	Thu Jul 16 1981	at Tor	British Columbia 32, Toronto 29
1981 season:	Week 4	Sat Jul 25 1981	at Ham	Hamilton 57, Toronto 13
1981 season:	Week 5	Thu Jul 30 1981	at Tor	Winnipeg 21, Toronto 18
1981 season:	Week 6	Fri Aug 7 1981	at Ott	Ottawa 38, Toronto 11
1981 season:	Week 7	Thu Aug 13 1981	at Tor	Edmonton 22, Toronto 12
1981 season:	Week 8	Sun Aug 23 1981	at Sas	Saskatchewan 38, Toronto 14
1981 season:	Week 10	Mon Sep 7 1981	at Cgy	Calgary 23, Toronto 5
1981 season:	Week 11	Sun Sep 13 1981	at Tor	Ottawa 23, Toronto 6
1981 season:	Week 12	Sat Sep 19 1981	at BC	British Columbia 45, Toronto 14
1981 season:	Week 13	Sun Sep 27 1981	at Tor	Toronto 29, Calgary 26
1981 season:	Week 15	Sun Oct 11 1981	at Wpg	Winnipeg 43, Toronto 12
1981 season:	Week 16	Sat Oct 17 1981	at Tor	Toronto 20, Montreal 14
1981 season:	Week 17	Sat Oct 24 1981	at Edm	Edmonton 61, Toronto 7
1981 season:	Week 18	Sat Oct 31 1981	at Tor	Hamilton 21, Toronto 11

[Will]

1982 season:	Week 1	Thu Jul 8 1982	at Tor	Calgary 24, Toronto 24
1982 season:	Week 2	Sat Jul 17 1982	at Edm	Edmonton 31, Toronto 12
1982 season:	Week 3	Fri Jul 23 1982	at Tor	Toronto 16, Montreal 13
1982 season:	Week 4	Fri Jul 30 1982	at Sas	Toronto 44, Saskatchewan 22
1982 season:	Week 5	Sat Aug 7 1982	at Tor	Toronto 30, Edmonton 22
1982 season:	Week 6	Fri Aug 13 1982	at Ham	Hamilton 37, Toronto 27
1982 season:	Week 7	Thu Aug 19 1982	at Tor	Toronto 35, Ottawa 25
1982 season:	Week 8	Sat Aug 28 1982	at BC	Toronto 20, British Columbia 19
1982 season:	Week 10	Fri Sep 10 1982	at Tor	Hamilton 30, Toronto 25
1982 season:	Week 11	Fri Sep 17 1982	at Cgy	Toronto 34, Calgary 30
1982 season:	Week 12	Sun Sep 26 1982	at Tor	British Columbia 46, Toronto 14
1982 season:	Week 13	Sat Oct 2 1982	at MtC	Toronto 25, Montreal 9
1982 season:	Week 14	Mon Oct 11 1982	at Wpg	Winnipeg 39, Toronto 35
1982 season:	Week 15	Sun Oct 17 1982	at Tor	Winnipeg 29, Toronto 16
1982 season:	Week 17	Sat Oct 30 1982	at Tor	Toronto 41, Saskatchewan 36
1982 season:	Week 18	Sat Nov 6 1982	at Ott	Toronto 28, Ottawa 14
1982 season:	Efin	Sun Nov 21 1982	at Tor	Toronto 44, Ottawa 7
1982 season:	GC70	Sun Nov 28 1982	at Tor	Edmonton 32, Toronto 16

[Will]

1983 season:	Week 1	Thu Jul 7 1983	at Cgy	Toronto 45, Calgary 30
1983 season:	Week 2	Thu Jul 14 1983	at Tor	Toronto 17, British Columbia 14
1983 season:	Week 3	Sat Jul 23 1983	at Tor	Toronto 28, Montreal 13
1983 season:	Week 4	Fri Jul 29 1983	at Sas	Toronto 40, Saskatchewan 21
1983 season:	Week 5	Sat Aug 6 1983	at Tor	Hamilton 31, Toronto 18
1983 season:	Week 6	Sat Aug 13 1983	at Wpg	Winnipeg 32, Toronto 16
1983 season:	Week 7	Fri Aug 19 1983	at Ott	Toronto 27, Ottawa 17
1983 season:	Week 8	Fri Aug 26 1983	at Tor	Toronto 36, Saskatchewan 15
1983 season:	Week 10	Sat Sep 10 1983	at BC	Toronto 32, British Columbia 14
1983 season:	Week 11	Sun Sep 18 1983	at Ham	Toronto 50, Hamilton 16
1983 season:	Week 12	Sat Sep 24 1983	at Tor	Calgary 49, Toronto 20
1983 season:	Week 13	Sun Oct 2 1983	at MtC	Toronto 30, Montreal 17
1983 season:	Week 14	Sun Oct 9 1983	at Tor	Toronto 19, Edmonton 15
1983 season:	Week 16	Sun Oct 23 1983	at Tor	Ottawa 20, Toronto 19
1983 season:	Week 17	Sat Oct 29 1983	at Edm	Toronto 22, Edmonton 15
1983 season:	Week 18	Sat Nov 5 1983	at Tor	Toronto 33, Winnipeg 9
1983 season:	Efin	Sun Nov 20 1983	at Tor	Toronto 41, Hamilton 36
1983 season:	GC71	Sun Nov 27 1983	at BC	Toronto 18, British Columbia 17

[Nob]

Good times. Darn good times.

Interesting to note that there was no Labour Day Classic games with the Cats in these years.

[ArgoRavi]

Good times. Darn good times.

Interesting to note that there was no Labour Day Classic games with the Cats in these years.

For a few years in the 1980s (1982-86), Montreal was the Ticats' Labour Day opponent. In 1981, Edmonton played a memorable Labour Day game in Hamilton which ended in a tie.

[1argoholic]

Every home game I was drunk. I don't even have to remember it's just what we did. Thanks to the fine people at GO for getting me most of the way home.

[Gill The Thrill]

Every home game I was drunk. I don't even have to remember it's just what we did. Thanks to the fine people at GO for getting me most of the way home.

This is a gem of a post, ...lol, not many guys would admit that they were shitfaced at every home game...lol. I remember being at a game during this period with an older brother who was of drinking age, I'd just become a teen so it never crossed my mind, but some fans would make me laugh my head off at the games because I could tell they'd had more than enough....they'd be screaming at players from 30 or 40 rows on the 1st base side, where the seats in that section veered away from the playing field...if I remember CNE stadium, I believe Section 2 or 4 which were located near the end zone on the newly built 1st base/right field side for baseball which was pretty much behind the huge scoreboard was known for drunken shenanigans...I think some of the behaviour may have gone a little too far, let's face it, they were'nt family friendly sections were they. I remember reading that the Jays offices had urine stains on their ceiling from people peeing in the stands...I don't know if that's true, or whether that was an exaggeration maybe even perpetrated by them or the media. (In hindsight, it would not surprise me) Maybe it was rainwater that would stain when combined with insulation or whatever building material it mixed with...who knows...anyways I remember reading it.

[Fungi]

This is a gem of a post, ...lol, not many guys would admit that they were shitfaced at every home game...lol. I remember being at a game during this period with an older brother who was of drinking age, I'd just become a teen so it never crossed my mind, but some fans would make me laugh my head off at the games because I could tell they'd had more than enough....they'd be screaming at players from 30 or 40 rows on the 1st base side, where the seats in that section veered away from the playing field...if I remember CNE stadium, I believe Section 2 or 4 which were located near the end zone on the newly built 1st base/right field side for baseball which was pretty much behind the huge scoreboard was known for drunken shenanigans...I think some of the behaviour may have gone a little too far, let's face it, they were'nt family friendly sections were they. I remember reading that the Jays offices had urine stains on their ceiling from people peeing in the stands...I don't know if that's true, or whether that was an exaggeration maybe even perpetrated by them or the media. (In hindsight, it would not surprise me) Maybe it was rainwater that would stain when combined with insulation or whatever building material it mixed with...who knows...anyways I remember reading it.

Love it! Don't let that that story die...Guffaw...and guffaw is not a word I use lightly.

[Gill The Thrill]

For a few years in the 1980s (1982-86), Montreal was the Ticats' Labour Day opponent. In 1981, Edmonton played a memorable Labour Day game in Hamilton which ended in a tie.

1981 Labour Day....Edmonton 34, Hamilton 34 in a great game.
1982 Labour Day ...Hamilton 28, Montreal 9...
I remember the Argos were 5 pts up on the Ticats with a week off after beating the Lions 20-19 in Vancouver on Aug 28, a Saturday night game at old Empire Stadium. This made the Argos 5-2-1, while the Cats were 3-4. After beating Montreal 28-9 on the Sept 6 Labour Day, they would beat the Argos at the CNE on the Friday Night, just 4 days later 30-25 to put them 1 pt behind the boatmen at 5-4. The Boatmen fell to 5-3-1. The Argos would go on to finish the season in 1st one game ahead of the Cats at 9-6-1. The Cats finished 8-7-1. Hamilton could have had a shot at first on the last Sunday of the season, if the Argos had not beaten Ottawa to clinch the East on the last Saturday of the regular season. With 2nd spot clinch the Ticats still played hard at Ivor Wynne vs the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and prevented the Bombers from clinching first place in the West by beating them 24-21. The Eskimos clinched 1st place on the last Sunday by beating Saskatchewan in Regina. Both the Esks and Bombers finished 11-5 with the Esks winning the tiebreaker for first based on their head to head meetings and their points scored. Winnipeg had beaten the Esks at Commonwealth 32-26, in what probably was one of the best games of the season in early August, while the Eskimos would not lose a game in the 2nd half of the season and whip the Bombers at Winnipeg 33-17 to win the head to head point differential and take the division because of it.

Going back to Labour day games at Ivor Wynne, the Cats would host Montreal again in '83 and possibly from 84 through to 86. I remember the Argos losing a terrible Labour Day in Calgary in 1985 to a terrible Stamps team that was in last place. They had also played the Stamps in Calgary on Labour Day in 1981. The Argo-Ticat rivalry was finally renewed at Ivor Wynne Stadium in 1987, when the Argos got a big victory in front of the largest crowd of the season, and maybe in years at Ivor Wynne with over 24K.

[1argoholic]

Oh there was plenty of guys that would piss in the stands. No word of a lie. I had seats in the Scotia Bank Section which was along the 3rd base line and I remember getting on the dugout with a few other hammered buddies which isn't saying much as everyone in the stadium was hammered and we cut up a TiCat jersey. Remember those cheesy thin ones you used to be able to buy at the CNE. I remember running up behind Ontario Premier Bill Davis who was a huge Argo fan and slapping him so hard he just about fell down. I said how about that win Billy? Those were great times. I remember our section being like a party. I actually took a bus trip with a bunch of guys I met in that section to Grey Cup 86 in Montreal. Did an all nighter at a guys house in Scarberia before heading to the bus station and the party never stopped the whole trip.

[Midnight Blue]

Exhibition Stadium was FUN !!!

Yeah, I was drinkin' too. Never got really shit-faced, since we always had a puff of the good stuff.

Sitting in the South Bleachers, there would be a Police Constable who patrolled the walkway at the top of the bleachers (I've told this story before, but it's worth repeating). He patrolled back and forth, one end to the other. Depending on the wind direction (east or west), when the Constable passed us one way, we'd walk up to this same walkway, and walk in the other direction, sparking up a spliff. Fun times! Hard to remember the games though. But it doesn't matter; we were living in the moment. And still are.

Cheers !

[1argoholic]

Funny how are stories are so similar.

[LLB997]

This is a gem of a post, ...lol, not many guys would admit that they were shitfaced at every home game...lol. I remember being at a game during this period with an older brother who was of drinking age, I'd just become a teen so it never crossed my mind, but some fans would make me laugh my head off at the games because I could tell they'd had more than enough....they'd be screaming at players from 30 or 40 rows on the 1st base side, where the seats in that section veered away from the playing field...if I remember CNE stadium, I believe Section 2 or 4 which were located near the end zone on the newly built 1st base/right field side for baseball which was pretty much behind the huge scoreboard was known for drunken shenanigans...I think some of the behaviour may have gone a little too far, let's face it, they were'nt family friendly sections were they. I remember reading that the Jays offices had urine stains on their ceiling from people peeing in the stands...I don't know if that's true, or whether that was an exaggeration maybe even perpetrated by them or the media. (In hindsight, it would not surprise me) Maybe it was rainwater that would stain when combined with insulation or whatever building material it mixed with...who knows...anyways I remember reading it.

Gill, your posts are always generally awesome but this one is especially so. Love hearing the Exhibition Stadium memories. This would have been around the time my older brother took me to my 1st Argos game. I believe it was an Argo loss to the ticats in Sept. 82 (friday night game). I was quite young so the on field stuff i really don't remember. I do remember the place being packed ( google search puts atten. at 53 thou that night) , And we sat at the west end of the grandstand. After the game we were walking past the east end gate on the way home and 2 guys were absolutely kicking the living $#!% out of each other right at the entrance with no sight of anyone being brave enough to put a stop to it. The Ticat fan was a pretty strong athletic looking type wearing a Ticats jersey. The Argos fan was pretty skinny. He was sporting the whole kenora tuxedo look (jean jacket/jeans/sneakers) and was rocking one hell of a mullet. The prototypical Toronto early 80s rocker who looked like he could use a good meal. And i'll tell ya, the Toronto rocker guy gave the Jock ticat fan all he could handle. I was thouroughly impressed. To be so young and to be exposed to something like that has stayed with me into adulthood. Most people would have been horrified to see such a nasty fight but that memory has stayed burned in my memory and represents the passion and intensity that is the CFL.

[LLB997]

Every home game I was drunk. I don't even have to remember it's just what we did. Thanks to the fine people at GO for getting me most of the way home.

lol, who gets the nod for getting you from the go station to your bed?

[AngeloV]

For some reason I'll never forget the blowout loss to Calgary in '83. Calgary QB Bernard Quarles had the game of his life, and I thought he was going to be a star, but it neve happened.

[ArgoRavi]

For some reason I'll never forget the blowout loss to Calgary in '83. Calgary QB Bernard Quarles had the game of his life, and I thought he was going to be a star, but it neve happened.

That game came less than a week after the 50-16 Argo win over Hamilton. The Argos simply weren't ready for that Calgary game and that loss was probably not the worst thing that could have happened to them.

[1argoholic]

I could and can still walk home pretty good. Although it took me to my last year in Mississauga in 02 to pass out after a game and badailis on the train and miss Port Credit. I had a bag on Cinnabon goodies. I got off in Clarkson and was going to walk until I found a cap. Luckily there was one close.
My first game was with my mom back in the early 70's and you do remember the crazy stuff. I remember what I believed to be a 26er now to be tossed from the stands just missing the first row. Then some crazy Green Rider fan was being carried by a bunch of cops down the stairs on the covered section. He was going insane.

[LLB997]

I could and can still walk home pretty good. Although it took me to my last year in Mississauga in 02 to pass out after a game and badailis on the train and miss Port Credit. I had a bag on Cinnabon goodies. I got off in Clarkson and was going to walk until I found a cap. Luckily there was one close.
My first game was with my mom back in the early 70's and you do remember the crazy stuff. I remember what I believed to be a 26er now to be tossed from the stands just missing the first row. Then some crazy Green Rider fan was being carried by a bunch of cops down the stairs on the covered section. He was going insane.

great stuff, Ya, its tame today by comparison. The yellow skydome gestapo are a real killjoy. It's important to keep it safe but i actually saw a few of those yellow barnyard commandos telling a ticat fan to keep it down last season.

[1argoholic]

They used to hastle us all the time.