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Ol’ No. 77 is now 68, not 28, and he has crutches to prove it.
Re-enacting The Catch that brought a Grey Cup title back to Ottawa in 1976, brought retired Rough Riders legend Tony Gabriel down without a tackle.
Gabriel had an incomplete rupture of his right Achilles tendon while recording a corporate video in a ByWard Market courtyard on Sept. 7, and he’ll be wearing a cast on his leg for as long as three months.
“You’re trying to do The Catch 2.0,” his buddy Leo Ezerins, another former player and now head of the CFL Alumni Association, told Gabriel.
“There won’t be a third. Trust me,” Gabriel said Tuesday from his home in Burlington, Ont. “I learned my lesson.”
The script for the video called for a shortened version of Gabriel’s route on “Rob-I-Fake-34-Tight-End-Flag,” the play allowed him to get open in the end zone late in the fourth quarter for the winning touchdown catch against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the CFL championship at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium on Nov. 28, 1976.
Instead of Tom Clements, whose 24-yard throw Gabriel caught that day, the football was tossed to Gabriel by an actor playing the role of an average fan.
The first take led to a second, then a third and so on. The final take started with, “Hut,” but Gabriel didn’t get anywhere on his 10- to 12-yard courtyard route.
“I push off and, honest to God, I just go down in a real heap. I can’t push off on my right leg,” he said, reliving the moment. “Everybody was quite scared, and so was I, and I was a embarrassed a little bit, too.”
A limousine took Gabriel to the General Campus of The Ottawa Hospital, where the ruptured Achilles was diagnosed by Dr. Gary Greenberg, who, as it turns out, is team physician for the defending Grey Cup-champion Redblacks.
A temporary cast was applied and Gabriel flew back to Toronto that afternoon. He was re-examined Sept. 8 in Oakville by Dr. Tania Welters, who confirmed Greenberg’s diagnosis and arranged for last Friday’s followup exam by an orthopedic surgeon.
Surgery won’t be required, but the cast on Gabriel’s leg means his wife, Lyle, will have to drive to North Carolina for U.S. Thanksgiving in late November. That trip will keep Gabriel from attending the Grey Cup game at TD Place stadium on Nov. 26, just as another family gathering meant he had to watch on TV from Boston as the Redblacks beat the Calgary Stampeders 39-33 in overtime last November at BMO Field in Toronto.
“It is what it is. I’m trying to make the best of it, my wife spoiling me each day,” Gabriel said. “I’m trying to be a good patient, following the doctors’ orders … and Lyle’s.”
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Re-enacting The Catch that brought a Grey Cup title back to Ottawa in 1976, brought retired Rough Riders legend Tony Gabriel down without a tackle.
Gabriel had an incomplete rupture of his right Achilles tendon while recording a corporate video in a ByWard Market courtyard on Sept. 7, and he’ll be wearing a cast on his leg for as long as three months.
“You’re trying to do The Catch 2.0,” his buddy Leo Ezerins, another former player and now head of the CFL Alumni Association, told Gabriel.
“There won’t be a third. Trust me,” Gabriel said Tuesday from his home in Burlington, Ont. “I learned my lesson.”
The script for the video called for a shortened version of Gabriel’s route on “Rob-I-Fake-34-Tight-End-Flag,” the play allowed him to get open in the end zone late in the fourth quarter for the winning touchdown catch against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the CFL championship at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium on Nov. 28, 1976.
Instead of Tom Clements, whose 24-yard throw Gabriel caught that day, the football was tossed to Gabriel by an actor playing the role of an average fan.
The first take led to a second, then a third and so on. The final take started with, “Hut,” but Gabriel didn’t get anywhere on his 10- to 12-yard courtyard route.
“I push off and, honest to God, I just go down in a real heap. I can’t push off on my right leg,” he said, reliving the moment. “Everybody was quite scared, and so was I, and I was a embarrassed a little bit, too.”
A limousine took Gabriel to the General Campus of The Ottawa Hospital, where the ruptured Achilles was diagnosed by Dr. Gary Greenberg, who, as it turns out, is team physician for the defending Grey Cup-champion Redblacks.
A temporary cast was applied and Gabriel flew back to Toronto that afternoon. He was re-examined Sept. 8 in Oakville by Dr. Tania Welters, who confirmed Greenberg’s diagnosis and arranged for last Friday’s followup exam by an orthopedic surgeon.
Surgery won’t be required, but the cast on Gabriel’s leg means his wife, Lyle, will have to drive to North Carolina for U.S. Thanksgiving in late November. That trip will keep Gabriel from attending the Grey Cup game at TD Place stadium on Nov. 26, just as another family gathering meant he had to watch on TV from Boston as the Redblacks beat the Calgary Stampeders 39-33 in overtime last November at BMO Field in Toronto.
“It is what it is. I’m trying to make the best of it, my wife spoiling me each day,” Gabriel said. “I’m trying to be a good patient, following the doctors’ orders … and Lyle’s.”
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Twitter.com/HolderGord
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