OLIVEIRA, DEFENCE LEAD BOMBERS to FIRST WIN SINCE 2019 Story by Scott Taylor, Photo by Randy Grossman
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www.mobile.legal Join Senior Scope on: Vol. 20 No. 2 | Aug 10 - Sept 9/21 READ EVERY ISSUE ONLINE at www.seniorscope.com OLIVEIRA, DEFENCE LEAD BOMBERS TO FIRST WIN SINCE 2019 Story by Scott Taylor, Photo by Randy Grossman With 29,376 fully- vaccinated football fans in attendance, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers opened NutriFeron® which is a Shaklee® product... is a unique, patented defence of their 2019 blend of zinc plus four powerful plant extracts that helps Grey Cup title on naturally balance the immune system. Nutriferon increases levels of Thursday August 5th. interferon which is crucial for Winnipeg’s own Brady Oliveira. a healthy immune It was quite a night at Investors the defending Grey Cup champions Dakota graduate Oliveira who was Group Field, given that it was the – and yes, after a year with no the star of the night. system. largest crowd to witness a single CFL football, the Bombers are still Oliveira, who broke an ankle at sporting event in Canada since defending champions – Winnipeg the beginning of the 2019 season, all sports were shut down due whipped the Hamilton Tiger-Cats got his first opportunity to start for to the coronavirus pandemic on 19-6 in the first Canadian Football his hometown team, replacing the March 12, 2020. League game since the 2019 Grey injured Andrew Harris (calf), the Winnipeg’s own Brady Oliveira, Cup. man who was the Most Outstanding making his professional debut after And even though Blue Bombers Player in the 2019 Grey Cup game. Contact Gerry missing all of the 2019 season, receiver Kenny Lawler caught two For Oliveira, who is just 23, it (Shaklee independent distributor) rushed for an impressive 126 yards touchdown passes to lead the scor- was a dream come true. on 22 carries while the Bombers’ ing brigade, it was Oak Park High “I guess I lived out a childhood at 204-990-4341 defence was remarkably good as School and University of North dream,” he said. 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In the sum- Contributing Submissions: mer of 1953 I had Alzheimer Society just turned six and I was blessed to Karyn Heidrick - Manitoba 55+ Games watch from the grandstand as the Trish & Rick - Pros Know Expos Winnipeg Blue Bombers played Senaka Samarasinghe Ken Ploen (Photo source: Blue Bombers) Harry McFee their very first game in a brand new Trish Rawsthorne stadium. That building has since in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. been demolished, replaced by IG As a Blue Bomber, Ken would go on ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Field at the University of Manitoba. to appear in the Grey Cup six times, Senior Scope is FREE at locations in Regular readers will know that I winning four times. He didn't have Winnipeg and rural Manitoba, plus by mail and come by my love of the 3-down nearly the flash of Indian Jack, but FREE email subscription, plus online at game very honestly. My late father he was undoubtedly a winner . www.seniorscope.com Andy Currie was a genuine legend I never even got to shake the of the game, as a player with the Jack Jacobs (Photo source: Winnipeg Tribune) hand of Jack Jacobs, but I'm Mail Subscriptions: Roughriders, as a very successful delighted to still regard Ken Ploen as 30.00 + 1.50 gst (31.50 total) high school coach in Winnipeg, and football. The excitement he created a friend and colleague. After he 12 issues/1 year. Pay by cheque, money order as a supervisor of officials – the on the field was immediate, and he retired as a player in 1967, he and I or e-transfer payable to: Zebras – in the CFL. sold thousands of tickets all by were involved in many pre-game What a different world it was Senior Scope, Box 1806 himself it seemed. Many suggested and postgame broadcasts on CJOB. back in 1953, although there was that the new Blue Bomber stadium Ken is 86 now, and Winnipeg has Stonewall, MB R0C 2Z0 one glaring similarity. The health which opened in 1953 could easily been his home more than three scare back then was polio, and it have been called “The House That times as long as Iowa ever was. Email Subscriptions FREE: included crippling disability and Jack Built”.Off the field, Jacobs was Memory issues have complicated Email: [email protected] to sign up. death, with many of the victims not exactly a choir boy. On a train life for he and his wife Janet in recent ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• being young children. Everyone was ride home from Edmonton in that years, but physically Ken looks like Available in Winnipeg and 90+ rural Manitoba anxiously awaiting a vaccine. The first season, Wells and The Chief got he could still play the game. communities: Altona, Anola, Arborg, Ashern, Baldur, heroes turned out to be scientists into a verbal dustup. When it was Somewhere between the Jack Balmoral, Beausejour, Birds Hill, Birtle, Boissevain, like Salk and Sabin. over the radio broadcaster had a Jacobs and Kenny Ploen eras, my Brandon, Carman, Clandeboye, Cranberry Portage, TV was still a year away from black eye which was talked about 'wish list' of possible careers for Dauphin, Dominion City, Dugald, Elie, Emerson, arriving in Winnipeg. The fortunes and laughed about for many years. myself began to evolve in a most Erickson, Eriksdale, Fisher Branch, Flin Flon, of the Blue Bombers were described When TV did arrive in 1954, interesting way. My rabid love of Fraserwood, Garson, Grand Marais, Gimli, Grandview, on radio by Cactus Jack Wells. Wells became host of a weekly show Canadian football had to compete Hamiota, Headingley, Hodgson, Holland, Ile des Jack referred to Winnipeg's quar- Chenes, Killarney, Komarno, La Broquerie, La Salle, called Football Huddle and Andy with a growing passion for anything Lac du Bonnet, Leaf Rapids, Letellier, Lockport, terback a few times that day in Currie was one of his regular to do with movies. Lorette, Lundar, Lynn Lake, Mariapolis, Marchand, 1953 as 'The Chief'. guests. In 1957 when I was 10 How about being a championship Marquette, Melita, Middlechurch, Minnedosa, He was a Creek Indian from years old, I was allowed to watch quarterback, who stars in movies in Montcalm, Morden, Morris, Neepawa, Niverville, Notre Oklahoma who was called 'Indian Football Huddle from behind the the off season? Such wonderful Dame de Lourdes, Oak Bank, Pilot Mound, Pinawa, Jack Jacobs' by just about every- cameras at CBC Winnipeg. Part of fantasy fun, huh? Pine Falls, Poplarfield, Portage la Prairie, Plumas, one who cared about Canadian the thrill that first day was shaking Richer, Ritchot, Riverton, Roblin, Roseau River, football. I don't know if the word the hand of Winnipeg's next great Russell, St. Adolphe, St. Agathe, St. Anne, St. Eustache, Ste-Genevieve, St-Jean Baptiste, St. Indigenous had even been coined quarterback, a lanky kid from Iowa Roger Currie is a Winnipeg writer, Laurent, St. Malo, Selkirk, Snow Lake, Starbuck, by anyone then. named Kenny Ploen. Before coming Steinbach, Stonewall, Stony Mountain, Swan Lake, Jacobs came to Winnipeg in 1950 to Winnipeg, Ploen had led his col- and a regular contributor to Teulon, The Pas, Thompson, Tolstoi, Treherne, Victoria after several years in American pro lege team, the Hawkeyes, to victory Senior Scope. Beach, Virden, Warren, Winkler, Winnipeg Beach, Woodlands. 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