Bob Skemp is a Canadian football player. Drafted in the third round, 27th overall, by the BC Lions, he played seven years in the CFL. He has been nominated as an honorable mention to the greatest CFL draft picks of all time Growing up in Richmond, British Columbia Skemp, who still holds records in the CJFL, played his junior football with the Richmond Raiders, where his father Archie Skemp was head coach from 1984 - 1989. He later played with the UBC Thunderbirds. During his first year in the CFL in 1986 Skemp was claimed as an unprotected player by the Montreal Alouettes as a non protected player. In 1987 during the equalization draft Bob was drafted by the Toronto Argonauts where he would continue to play for them until the 1992 season.During the 1991 CFL year Skemp was the starting right guard on the 1991 Grey Cup Toronto Argonauts football team.