View from the Couch

BY SCREAMIN' LEEMAN

In one of the most classless moves I have ever had the misfortune to witness, Joe Kapp punched Angelo Mosca in the jaw twice at a sports luncheon yesterday.   Granted, both these guys are seventy-three. But all  seventy-three s are not equal.  Mosca is an OLD seventy-three.  He's a couple hundred pounds overweight, can hardly stand, and needs a cane to help him walk.   Joe Kapp is a YOUNG seventy-three.  He has the body of a much healthier man, there's no fat on him, and he looks to be in great shape.

The incident is being passed off by some as a "bit of roughhousing" by a couple old warriors, or a grudge. It was a grudge, all right.  A grudge over a 'late hit' by Mosca that happened, incredibly,   FORTY-EIGHT years ago.

Forty-eight years ago?  Really, Joe?

But let's call a spade a spade, shall we?  It was an assault on a cripple.  Joe Kapp,  you should be ashamed of yourself.

First, you shake flowers at him in a phony gesture of peace when it was really a deliberate attempt to provoke him with mocking gestures.  Well, it worked.   Understandably, he told you to shove the flowers.   But that wasn't good enough for you, you had to go over and shake them right in his face, didn't you?  Of course he took a swing at you with his CANE. He uses a CANE because he's crippled, Joe.   He uses a CANE because he has trouble standing and walking, Joe.  He's also around 200 pounds overweight.

I guess maybe you didn't notice any of these things when you were busy slugging him to the floor.

Did that make you feel better, Joe?   You finally got even, didn't you?  After forty-eight years.

I think most guys would take umbrage at you for mocking them and shoving something in their face, especially in a public forum, don't you?

You set the whole thing up, so you could get even for a grudge you've been holding for a lifetime.

Not exactly the high road, eh coach?

Here's what I think:  I think you are a poor excuse for a man, I think that was a gutless move of the highest degree, and I think you should be ashamed of yourself.

Is this how you want to be remembered?

Nice legacy, Joe.