![]() Woods nods to these topics, but he does not delve into them. Doing so would have produced a more textured understanding of the era and given the book more heft. Essentially, what he’s done instead is put together a football and business story, augmented by a host of interesting characters, that takes readers down memory lane. The completion of the SkyDome (now Rogers Centre) in 1989 was supposed to change the course of events for the Argonauts, much as a move to BMO Field in 2016 was, ironically, to rescue them from their former saviour. ![]() That shiny bauble of a stadium and the fact the Double Blue came up for sale in 1990 proved to be the propitious circumstances that brought a little Hollywood stardust to a susceptible local audience. The magic did not last long.Īt the heart of this book is that incredible season when the new ownership made its splash with Ismail, whom Woods calls “the most-talked-about player ever to step on a Canadian football field.” The goal was to light up the city and the league with both money and star power. The night before the Rocket’s debut in July, McNall, Gretzky, Candy, and a host of celebs rolled into town.
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