NO, IT'S A GREAT PARTY, FRANK ...

Boatmenblog has a pretty funny post up about Frank D'Angelo, the beer baron and man who, in his own mind at least, is the CFL's saviour-in-waiting in Ottawa. Namely, it's about D'Angelo's rather sad attempt to buy the friendship of Toronto Argonauts players last season by "pay(ing) the Argos to move their post-game party to his bar," so he could jock-sniff and treat those sniffed jocks to his band's performance.

D'Angelo (rear left in photo, and yes, that is Ben Johnson practising for a sports-drink commercial) and his band were performing in Ottawa earlier this week. There was some thought of checking out his act strictly for the Unintentional Comedy value, but why waste one's beautiful mind on that?)

Anyhow, Boatmenblog reports, Argos players soon found another place to unwind after games. Team staffers hung in, but "even those who hadn't already been scared off by D'Angelo have apparently now stopped going, courtesy of some sort of gun-waving incident" outside the bar early this season. Nice.

Quoth Boatmenblog:

"For the record, it was not D'Angelo waving the gun, nor even one of his patrons. But we love the idea of him striding into Badali's, where some of the Argos have apparently started going again, and marching them back to (his bar) at gunpoint ... By this point, that's pretty much the only way anyone's going to Frank's party ... and based on what we've heard, many of them would rather take a bullet than suffer through his lounge act again."

Yeah, this totally sounds like the guy who can win over potential CFL fans in Ottawa-Gatineau.

Related:
Let's Be Frank: This Isn't The Wright Man To Save The CFL In Ottawa (Aug. 18)
Saving Ottawa Sports: Vote of Confidence For City's Football Future (Aug. 10)
A Canadian ... A Jamaican-Canadian ... A Jamaican Tragedy (March 24)

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