A fiery quarterback led BC. The Lions won their first Grey Cup championship and made global headlines more than 45 years later when they had a fistfight with fellow Hall of Famer Angelo Mosco. Karp died Monday night at the age of 85.
The Lions confirmed Kap’s pass. The cause of death was not immediately known, but Karp told San Jose Mercury News in 2016 that he has Alzheimer’s disease and is donating his brain for concussion research.
There have also been reports that he has battled dementia for more than a decade.
“Jo Carp will go down as one of the best players of all time in the Canadian Football League as well as in our franchise,” Neil McEvoy, the Lions’ co-director and head of football operations, said in a statement. “Joe not only helped put the Lions on the map after an early few years, but also served as a pioneer for quarterbacks who made their name on both sides of the border.
“We are now thinking with Joe’s wife Jennifer and all of our family.”
The 6-foot-2-inch, 215-pound Carp played eight CFL seasons for the Calgary Stampeders (1959-60) and b.c. (1961-1966), before playing Lions GM (1990). He completed 1,476 (54.5 %) of 2,709 passes in Canada for 22,725 yards with 136 touchdowns and 129 interceptions.
Kap, from Santa Fe, New Mexico, also ran for 2,784 yards on 579 carries (4.8-yard average) and five TDs. Carp led b.c. to a 1963 Grey Cup appearance and the franchise’s first league win the following season.
Instead of keeping out of touch, Karp apparently heard someone back from Canada because he seems to have gone out looking for it up. And when he found it, the rugged Capp tried to lower his shoulders and run through a defensive player instead of being out of bounds.
“Jo Kaaf was as strong as a nail,” CFL Commissioner Randy Ambosi said in a statement. “Most quarterbacks tried to avoid defenders, but he hit them.
“As a player, Kapp has typically shown a cheeky, young league that stands out in the sports world.”
Karp went to the NFL after the 66th season, playing for both Minnesota (1967-69) and Boston Patriots (1970). Carp signed with the Vikings in a deal that would allow Canadian receiver Jim Young to join the Lions, who would later be inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Carp led the Vikings to the Super Bowl in 1969, where they lost 23-7 to the Kansas City Chiefs.
At the time, the Vikings’ GM brought Kapp to Canada with the Calgary Stampeders as none other than Jim Pinks. Minnesota’s head coach was gobard grant, the former head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who once faced kaff in Canada.
A two-time CFL All-Star, Karp is the only quarterback to play in the Rose Bowl, Grey Cup and Super Bowl.
Karp was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of fame in 1984 and was inducted into the American College Football Hall of fame in 2004. Karp is also a member of BC. Sports Hall of fame (1999) and the b.c. Lions wall of fame.
His number 22 was retired by the Lions.
In 1958, he played American football at the university of California, Berkeley, leading the school to the Pacific Coast Championship. On January 1, 1959, the golden bears lost to Iowa 38-12 in the rose bowl.
Karp was two sports stars in California. He also played basketball for the school’s Pacific Coast Conference Championship team (1956-57, 1957-58).
Washington selected kap in the 18th round of the 1959 NFL Draft. But after the franchise failed to contact Karp, he accepted an offer from the Pinks, then Stampeders GM.
Karp spent two seasons in Calgary before moving to BC. The move came after Karp suffered a knee injury at the beginning of the 1960 season, but he did not miss a game as he played with thick tape.
Karp led b.c. to a 12-4 record and finished first in the 1963 Western Division standings. The Lions advanced the Saskatchewan Roughriders to the Grey Cup match against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Empire Stadium in Vancouver in the conference final.
Hamilton won 21-10, but the match is remembered as a controversial blow by Mosca against Lions running back Willie Fleming. While Fleming was on the ground, Moska’s side hit sparked a long feud between players from both teams.
The Lions avenged their Grey Cup defeat next season. After a stellar 11-2-3 record, BC sent Hamilton 36-24 in a grey cup game, the first title in franchise history.
But the bad blood didn’t go away. In 2011, Kapp and Moscow had a scuffle at a CFL reunion luncheon in Vancouver.토토사이트 모음
A video of Kapp pushing a flower to Mosca’s face, Mosca retaliated by swinging a cane at Kapp, and Mosca punched Mosca and knocked him to the floor drew global attention.
Karp left for the NFL following the 1966 season. But he goes back to B.C.