CFL 78 BC at Toronto

[ArgoRavi]

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If you are looking for thrilling offence in this game, you aren't going to find it. This is the second complete Argos game posted to YouTube from the 1978 season and another reminder of how putrid that team was, especially the offence. Alvin White and Rodney Allison were the QBs in this one as Chuck Ealey had sustained a season-ending (it turned out to be career-ending too) injury a few weeks earlier.

The most interesting parts of this broadcast were the interviews with Jim Corrigall and Peter Muller. Corrigall is interviewed both before and after the game and you can sense his great frustration at being part of such a dysfunctional organization for such a long time. Muller is interviewed at halftime. Both interviews are incredibly honest and unlike anything you see today. If you don't want to watch this game, at least watch those interviews. Those interviews shed a lot of light on the Argos of that era.

[Argo57]

Yes Ravi, no cliche ridden responses from the players in that era.

[ArgoRavi]

Yes Ravi, no cliche ridden responses from the players in that era.

I also think that it helped that there was a good rapport between the sideline commentators and the players back then. All of the players knew Tom McKee, Bill Stephenson and Al McCann and were accustomed to speaking frankly with them.

[AngeloV]

It was a different time for sure, Ravi. Players had a lot more trust with the media members back then. In today's tabloid style sports writing and commentating, I don't blame the players for not giving them much.