by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Sep 14, 2018 | Hall of Fame News
Six years after his last game as a professional football player, Brent Johnson still looks back at it all in awe. “Professional sports and specifically football, it’s a very high-intensity arena that you play in,” he said. Through his 11-year career with the BC Lions,...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Sep 14, 2018 | Hall of Fame News
Hank Ilesic remembers the sidelines well, his hands resting on a chain link fence in downtown Edmonton, watching his favourite team practice day after day. “Most of those players on that team were my idols. I’d watched them for years as I grew up,” Ilesic said. “I...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Sep 14, 2018 | Hall of Fame News
Barron Miles sat there for a moment, pondering the decision. Which play is more deflating, he was asked. An interception or a blocked kick? A master at both, the 12-year CFL vet eventually came to a decision. “I guess if I was blocking the kick I think that would be...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Sep 14, 2018 | Hall of Fame News
Barron Miles sat there for a moment, pondering the decision. Which play is more deflating, he was asked. An interception or a blocked kick? A master at both, the 12-year CFL vet eventually came to a decision. “I guess if I was blocking the kick I think that would be...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Sep 14, 2018 | Hall of Fame News
Tom Hugo was an enigma. Listed at five-foot-10 and about 220 pounds, the first Hawaiian player in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (the forerunner to the CFL) was an all-star centre for the Montreal Alouettes. Playing from 1953 to 1959, a lineman of that size...
