Grey Cup
He holds the distinction of having attended every Grey Cup game between 1949 and 1999. Every year, for as long as sportswriters can recall, Toronto Sun columnist Jim Hunt asked the most critical question at the coaches' press conference during Grey Cup week.
"What is your position on your players having sex the night before the Grey Cup game? he would ask the coaches, always eliciting good-natured laughter from his colleagues. So entrenched is this quirky tradition, that when he couldn't attend the last few Grey Cups, another journalist stood up to pose the question in his absence.
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