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Jonathan Campeau Insurance Presents Football

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Meet Colin Samuel: Cornwall’s 51-Year-Old

“Sackmaster”

By Carlos Rodriguez Back in 1993, Colin didn’t even kind of stuck, I ended up being a than just a few good stories to
know what flag football was, let rusher for nearly 20 years. It’s not tell. He’s suited up for a handful
olin Samuel may have been alone that he’d become a league something I planned, but hey, if of teams, including Upper
Cborn in Halifax, but since legend. “A friend asked me to the shoe fits!” said Colin. Canada Mortgage, Cameron’s
1991, Cornwall has been his give it a try,” Colin recalls. “I had As the quarterbacks got Accounting, Freeman’s Demons,
playground— literally. At 51 never played football before, but younger and quicker, Colin and his current squad, Co-
years old, Colin is still a force to be I figured, why not?” Little did he decided it was time for a change. operators Insurance. But it’s not
reckoned with in Cornwall’s flag know he was about to discover Rather than hanging up his cleats, just the jerseys that matter to him;
football league. Having played a hidden talent for rushing he transitioned to the snapper it’s the championships. Colin’s
in 27 seasons and counting, this quarterbacks. Like many new position—a move that allowed won three, and each one holds a
veteran athlete is far from calling recruits blessed with speed, Colin him to stay in the game while special place in his heart. “I love
it quits. Whether you know him was thrown into the role of pass saving his knees for the post-game winning, don’t get me wrong,”
as the “Sackmaster” or simply rusher. And guess what? He was cheers. Colin says, “but some of my
as Colin, one thing is for sure: really good at it. So good, in fact, favourite moments have nothing
this guy knows his way around a that his friends started calling him When you’ve played for as
football field. the “Sackmaster.” “The name long as Colin, you’ve got more Continued on page 9

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Jonathan Campeau

Financial Advisor / Owner
Insurance. 3304 Second Street St. E.,

Cornwall

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Advice.