





By Molly Hayes

The Hamilton Spectator

Someone out there has Bobby Kuntz’s Grey Cup ring and Angelo Mosca isn’t happy about it.

Police say thieves stole the sentimental treasure after ransacking Kuntz’s daughter’s Mississauga home last weekend.

“These rings mean a heck of a lot (to us),” Angelo Mosca, Kuntz’s former Ticat teammate, said Saturday.

“I just think it’s a shame. Why would they want to steal something that doesn’t mean anything to them at all?”

Kuntz’s daughter, Elizabeth, said she feels sick every time she thinks of it.

“That is the most important memento I have left of my dad,” she said.

“He gave his whole life to football. He literally gave his life for it, because he died of football-related injuries.”

Kuntz, a former Tiger Cats all-star fullback/linebacker, died in 2011 after a long battle with Parkinson’s.

Elizabeth said thieves used a ladder to climb into her second-storey bedroom while she was away last weekend and tore it apart looking for jewellery. They made off with her wedding ring and a number of cherished family heirlooms—but the most heartbreaking loss was her dad’s ring.

Kuntz won it in the 1965 Grey Cup against the Argos.

At that time, the Cats couldn’t afford rings. It wasn’t until 40 years later that Angelo Mosca reunited his surviving teammates to present them with their deserved ’65 Grey Cup rings at a 2005 banquet.

“They took a number of years to get,” Mosca said. He and his wife had personally raised the money to have them made.

Elizabeth inherited the ring after her father died. She’d planned to eventually pass it on to her son, Robbie Jr.

“I mean, ever since he first saw the ring he was entranced by it. He held my father in such awe, and is so much like him in many ways,” Elizabeth said.

“I’ll pay to get it back,” she said.

“You know, you steal people’s hearts when you do something like that.”

Mosca, who was a close friend of Kuntz, has been in touch with the ring manufacturer to see about replacing it.

He said a thief would never have dared mess with Kuntz face to face, “that’s for sure.”

“Bobby was a tough individual,” Mosca said. “But a good guy.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact Peel Police at (905) 453-2121, ext. 1233, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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