Sad Day For Canadian Football
Commonly I do not post about anything outside comics, movies, TV and other such related geek. I am changing all that today with a post about a sport I very much enjoy. On Sunday morning, Bob Ackles passed away from a sudden heart attack. He was 69. Bob Ackles was the president of the British Columbia Lions, a team in the Canadian Football League. My home team and when I heard the news this morning (I missed it yesterday), I was just remembering all the fun I ever had with my friends from high school and how much of our great times involved the BC Lions in some way. Flash forward to today and I now have season tickets to the BC Lions and go with good friends from high school to the games. I often have another ticket to bring along other friends and family as well but the binding part of the games is the tie to my high school friends.
I won’t go on further other than to say my condolences to the Ackles family at this time and that hearing about times like these it makes me cherish family and friends even more so.
“Bob is the franchise. He is Mr. B.C. Lions. He’s football in B.C,” Lions owner David Braley
From TSN:
http://tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=242666&lid=headline
The book The Water Boy about the life and times of Bob Ackles in Football:
http://www.amazon.ca/Water-Boy-Sidelines-Owners-Inside/dp/0470153458
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July 8th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Bob Ackles will be remembered for his love and passion to the CFL Game. He gave 40 years of his life to the CFL family.
Ron