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                                                 Jonathan Campeau Insurance Presents Football

                                                                      613-933-2105
      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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