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Thneed1 t1_ixe85f4 wrote

Reply to comment by chesterforbes in In 1994 some guy named Dwayne Johnson was a backup defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes by lostacoshermanos

Tried out for the Calgary Stampeders, was cut.,

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Explorer3130 t1_ixfh4fx wrote

The Stamps have joked about this from time to time. “Oh what ever happened to that Dwayne guy? Hope it all worked out for him.” kind of stuff.

He was cut due to the cap on American players on CFL teams and he didn’t make it. At the time he had something like $7 in his pocket and him and his other broke football buddies were raiding the Cecil hotel (notorious Calgary dive) garbage for “the least-repulsive smelling mattress” just to sleep on. He actually credits his time in Calgary for giving him a hard reality check and shifting his focus from football to entertainment.

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Thneed1 t1_ixfiv9l wrote

Calling the Cecil a dive is highly overrating it.

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