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...
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...
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...
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...
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 informed by the CFL and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame that her...
