Rich
12-29-2012, 02:22 AM
It took winning the Grey Cup to get the Argonauts some love from the alt-weekly The Grid, but better late than never. Go place your vote for the dynamic duo:
http://www.thegridto.com/city/people/2012-menschies/
There are some very fine people on this list, if you're gonna vote, you should use all three votes allotted so they don't think we're stuffing the ballot box for the Argos. Here's the text of the Argos blurb. Maybe next year the Argos can be heroes for more than one day to some of these readers.
FOR PROVING THAT WE CAN BE HEROES, JUST FOR ONE DAY
Ricky Ray and Chad Owens
The Blue Jays are suddenly cool again, and the Maple Leafs are apparently worth a billion dollars. Big whoop—the Toronto Argonauts were the only local pro team to win it all this year (duh), and they did it in style, beating the Calgary Stampeders 35–22 in the 100th Grey Cup. To make things just a tad sweeter, the game was played at home, in a sold-out Rogers Centre. Leading the charge were quarterback hero Ricky Ray and league MVP Chad Owens. The soft-spoken Ray didn’t lose his cool when the Argos fell behind in the semi-final against arch-rival Montreal, and he recovered from a bumpy start against Calgary. The five-foot-eight Owens (a.k.a. “The Flyin’ Hawaiian”) simply rewrote the CFL’s regular-season record book, annihilating Pinball Clemons’s mark for total yards. Without either one of these guys, one of the grimmest years in the city’s sports history would’ve been a whole lot worse.
http://www.thegridto.com/city/people/2012-menschies/
There are some very fine people on this list, if you're gonna vote, you should use all three votes allotted so they don't think we're stuffing the ballot box for the Argos. Here's the text of the Argos blurb. Maybe next year the Argos can be heroes for more than one day to some of these readers.
FOR PROVING THAT WE CAN BE HEROES, JUST FOR ONE DAY
Ricky Ray and Chad Owens
The Blue Jays are suddenly cool again, and the Maple Leafs are apparently worth a billion dollars. Big whoop—the Toronto Argonauts were the only local pro team to win it all this year (duh), and they did it in style, beating the Calgary Stampeders 35–22 in the 100th Grey Cup. To make things just a tad sweeter, the game was played at home, in a sold-out Rogers Centre. Leading the charge were quarterback hero Ricky Ray and league MVP Chad Owens. The soft-spoken Ray didn’t lose his cool when the Argos fell behind in the semi-final against arch-rival Montreal, and he recovered from a bumpy start against Calgary. The five-foot-eight Owens (a.k.a. “The Flyin’ Hawaiian”) simply rewrote the CFL’s regular-season record book, annihilating Pinball Clemons’s mark for total yards. Without either one of these guys, one of the grimmest years in the city’s sports history would’ve been a whole lot worse.