Patience pays off for HOF-bound sack master Will Johnson
When the phone finally rang and Will Johnson got the news he’d been waiting years for, he looked at the calendar and was naturally suspicious. “I thought it might have been an April Fool’s joke,”...
On his mother’s sound advice, Nik Lewis forged a HOF career
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...
Steinauer reflects on humble journey to CFL Hall-of-Fame nod
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...
O’Leary: Driven to give, Mitchell heads to the Hall
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...
O’Leary: Predicting which hats future hall of famers might wear
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,...
MMQB: Special connections for Burris highlight Hall of Fame induction
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...
O’Leary: The hall of fame gets The Big Chill
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...
O’Leary: Burris’ football world ties together in his trip to the Hall
There were times over the last five months, Nicole Burris admits, that it might have just been easier to let her husband in on the secret that the rest of their family knew. In February, Nicole was...
O’Leary: DeNobile the link between hall of famers
When TSN’s Friday night double header of CFL games gets rolling tonight (7 p.m. ET, TSN1), you’ll see some of the biggest names of the last generation of Canadian football be inducted into the hall...
The Waggle, Ep.171: Why the delay? + Jon Cornish 1-on-1
The year of the return continues, Trevor Harris takes heat from his former squad and the guys talk Canadian culture questions. Plus, Ryan Janzen stops by to break down weather delay scenarios and...
2019 CFHOF induction ceremony to take place August 9
TORONTO — The Canadian Football Hall of Fame (CFHOF) and Museum’s stellar Class of 2019 will be honoured, celebrated and inducted into the Hall of Fame on Friday, August 9 at Tim Hortons Field....
O’Leary: Hall of Fame nod an opportunity for Cornish to inspire
If you know anything about Jon Cornish, Wednesday’s news shouldn’t have been a surprise. If you had the good fortune to witness Cornish perform the alchemy required to harness the best attributes of...