NO GAME CIVIC WEEKEND

LORD SIMCOE HATED FOOTBALL

Spartan Hater...joke's on you this week

The Civic Holiday, known in years past as Lord Simcoe Day, will mean the end of the first half of the season.

It was well known that General John Graves Simcoe had a great dislike of football, despite being British.
"Elizabeth," he opened in a letter before his death,"I have played this game of kick ball for years. Against the French, against the Iroquois, against Prussian immigrants. Although the drunken revelry of the post game appeals to one's basic spirits, the entire function is totally unbecoming a man of rank."

Lord Simcoe's team, The Chiefs, was the worst of the Upper Canada League. It continuously set new records of destitution, and appeared in a book by the poet Goethe entitled "The Sadness of the Game is Afoot." Beethoven would eventually pen the depressing 17th Symphony after reading through the results of the disastrous sports adventure.

TRIVIA FACTS:
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The Civic Holiday is not a true holiday in the sense that workers are given time and a half or a day in lieu.

The Civic Holiday is actually named differently depending upon where you are in Ontario. For instance, Oshawa celebrates the day as McLaughlin Day.

Although RS McLaughlin designed and manufactured Canada's first automotive industry, he preferred long walks with his dogs and smoking a cigar.