Joe Kapp, 73, former star QB, fights with former rival, age 74: Videos of fight and Kapp twice routing the Cleveland Browns

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Kapp and former defensive line star Angelo Mosca fight during a luncheon on Friday, with Kapp landing a haymaker punch. Kapp's tough quarterbacking style helped keep the Browns out of the 1969 season Super Bowl.

Associated PressJoe Kapp, age 73, apparently remains as aggressive as when he played quarterback for 12 professional seasons.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Joe Kapp, in his prime as a professional quarterback, threw a football that acted like a knuckleball, but at age 73 throws a punch like a haymaker — as shown in a video below.

Kapp quarterbacked the Minnesota Vikings to the 1969 season Super Bowl, a 23-7 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. To get there, Minnesota defeated the Cleveland Browns, 27-7, in the old National Football League championship game, as then reported by The Plain Dealer’s Chuck Heaton in his game story. Cleveland.com’s Browns history database includes the Plain Dealer game stories for every regular season and playoff game in Browns history, including Heaton’s game report on the Vikings’ stunning 51-3 wallop of the Browns earlier in that 1969 season.

Kapp was known as a tough-guy type field leader with an unconventional style, as is vividly shown below in another video, the Vikings’ 1969 highlight film that includes both Minnesota romps over the Browns. He had established that reputation during his eight-year career in the Canadian Football League before joining the Vikings. Older Browns fans might remember how Kapp collided with star Browns linebacker Jim Houston on a running play in the title game, knocking out Houston — a play included in the video.

As it turns out, Kapp and an old CFL rival have long memories, as reported in a New York Daily News story and shown in a video below that has gone viral.

Nina Mandell writes for the New York Daily News that Kapp and former CFL star defensive lineman Angelo Mosca, 74, got into it during a luncheon on Friday in Vancouver:

The two have had it in for each other since a contentious Grey Cup in 1963, the CBC reported. When they were both due onstage, the luncheon’s host, comedian Ron James, told Kapp to give Mosca a sprig from a table setting as a “peace offering.”

It had the opposite effect, a video posted on YouTube shows.

First, Mosca told Kapp where he could put the peace offering, the drama began.

“Joe Kapp, the 73-year-old quarterback — proof positive don’t mix your meds with your liquor — hauled off and nailed him and the fight was on,” a horrified James told CBC News.

Mosca smacked Kapp with his cane, and Kapp punched Mosca.

Kapp then turned to the crowd and yells “Sportsmanship!”

Video: Former CFL stars Joe Kapp, 73, and Angelo Mosca, 74, fight during a luncheon on Friday in Vancouver:

Video: Joe Kapp is prominent in the 1969 Vikings’ highlight film, including footage from Minnesota’s 51-3 rout over the Browns in a regular season game — about 6:10 into the video — and the Vikings’ 27-7 NFL title game win over the Browns about 22:40 in.

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