Riders’ Head Coach reflects on significant CFL weekend ahead of Sunday [Video]

The year was 2010 and Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach, Corey Mace, then defensive tackle for the Calgary Stampeders suited up for his first game in the Canadian Football League (CFL) against one of his team’s fiercest rivals.

“The very first game I ever played in the CFL was a Labour Day game in 2010 and the atmosphere was incredible,” he reminisced.

The Stampeders defeated the then Edmonton Eskimos (now Elks) 52-5 and Mace went on to play eight games with Calgary that season.

“I think anytime you can win as you know, you’re happy. But looking back, so many good players that were part of that team that I was on and even the team in Edmonton. You just felt it even though I was only there for a week prior to playing you just felt what it meant, what Labour Day meant to the two teams that were playing.”

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