by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Apr 14, 2021 | Hall of Fame News
Nik Lewis was fresh out of Southern Arkansas University and found himself at an unexpected fork in the road. He’d expected to be a fifth-round pick of the Green Bay Packers in the 2003 NFL Draft and when that fell through, his next option was an invite to join the...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Apr 13, 2021 | Hall of Fame News
From playing on concrete and carpet, expansive use of fullbacks in offensive attacks and VHS film review, Orlondo Steinauer’s football life reads like a map that could describe much of the CFL’s last two decades. Spending five weeks with the Ottawa Rough Riders in...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Apr 13, 2021 | Hall of Fame News
When Doug Mitchell thinks back to his college days, he thinks about how some of the seemingly insignificant moments were actually the big ones. While he was at Colorado College on a hockey scholarship, he decided to look into playing for the football team. In his...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Jul 20, 2020 | Hall of Fame News
On the most recent episode of The Waggle, Donnovan Bennett chatted with Henry Burris about learning he was a part of the 2020 Hall of Fame class. Bennett asked Burris if this were like baseball, where inductees wear a hat of the team that they’re most attached to...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Jul 20, 2020 | Hall of Fame News
Henry Burris was a no-brainer as a first ballot Hall of Famer. With three Grey Cup titles, two Grey Cup MVP awards, and a pair of Most Outstanding Player nods, Burris was always getting into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame on his first try. But if you saw Burris’s...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Jul 18, 2020 | Hall of Fame News
When he first set foot on the field with the Shreveport Pirates in 1994, Freddie Childress had no way of knowing it, but he was about to get the full Canadian Football League experience. The hulking offensive lineman — he stands at six-foot-four and weighed 345 pounds...
