Still Mosca honours Ticat legend

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It’s been 43 years since Angelo Mosca retired from the Tiger-Cats, but he is still a star attraction.

Family, friends, former teammates, along with hall of famers from a number of sports, filled Carmen’s Banquet Centre to pay tribute to the 78 year old. Mosca’s family spearheaded the event after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s earlier this year. That made this fundraiser different than any other he’d ever attended.

“This is not for me, and I hope that people can move along the way this has moved me along. Another reason it’s really great because my kids had a lot to do with this.”

Mosca, who first arrived in Hamilton in 1958, was made for this city. He was Steeltown tough and he embodied what it meant to be a Tiger-Cat… an ambassador for the franchise to this day.

Local sports entrepreneur Ron Foxcroft enthused: “Angelo ‘King Kong’ Mosca is the only person that could bring 800-plus people to a dinner in Hamilton. I just think it’s wonderful that because he symbolizes everything that we’re about in Hamilton.”

Former Ticat Mike Morreale: “You look around here at this event and the aura that Ang Mosca created… amazing. And you don’t get something like this for everyone. This is certainly years of not only what he did on the field but what he did off the field, how he branded himself as a celebrity, you know, before anyone really did in Canada especially.”

CFL great Russ Jackson: “I think that’s the important part of Ang, sure he had a good football career but you could pick out a lot of other guys who had great football careers here in Hamilton or in any city you want to go to. But it’s what Angie meant to this city after he left the game right up ’til now.”

Angelo Mosca has artificial knees and shoulders, and is coping with his Alzheimer’s but he’s still a larger-than-life figure.

He is Still Mosca.