CFL Traditions
CFL TRADITIONS will trace the magic show of Canadian football from its roots to present day, from the afternoon in 1861 when a group of University of Toronto students played the first documented game of “Foot Ball” to the modern day Grey Cup games that annually grab the nation by heart.
The tale is told through specially commissioned interviews with the game’s living legends, brought together for the first time to share their memories, their trophies, their scrapbooks, and keepsakes from the games of their lives. Each episode is teamed with the best in archival film footage and classic photographs collected from broadcasters, private collectors and local & international archives.
Interviewees include such legends as: Joe Kapp, Doug Flutie, Warren Moon, Mike “Pinball” Clemons, Bud Grant and Tom Wilkinson.
CFL TRADITIONS tells the story of the two kid quarterbacks who arrived at the4 camp of the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1960 – the American born and trained Ron Lancaster, “The Wizard of Wittenberg”, and Russ Jackson the smiling “Canadian Assassin” from down the road at McMaster University.
It tells the stories of people like Glenn Dobbs, the Tulsa All American quarterback who was handed a can of paint and a brush at his first practice in Saskatchewan, because that was the day the Roughriders repainted the stadium; and Woody Strode, who played in the 1948 Grey Cup game and went on to take a spear in the back in Spartacus, and star in a dozen western movies, and Ron Atchison, the only player in pro football history whose Hush Puppies are in a Hall of Fame.
CFL TRADITIONS tackles a unique and fascinating story of the game and the people who played it, lived it and stamped it, forever “MADE IN CANADA”.
Running Time: 10x 30 Minute episodes.
All territories Available.