HAMILTON — In the hallway outside the Argos dressing room, Brandon Banks, senior and junior, were holding hands late on a Labour Day afternoon and, all around…
On Wednesday, Brandon Jr., goes home, back to New York, back to school and dad goes on to the rest of this football season.
It wasn’t necessarily Father’s Day in Hamilton on Monday but it sure could have been that for the guy they call Speedy B. In the Argos playbook, the play is called the Philly Special. And no, it’s not about eating a cheesesteak. It’s a play essentially stolen from the playbook of the Philadelphia Eagles, which is something football coaches do all the time. The play was used in the Super Bowl to beat Belichick’s Patriots.
Except it didn’t work out that way. The ball went to Gittens and it was then handed to Banks. But the handoff didn’t exactly go smoothly.Article content “The old man can still play,” Banks said, kind of laughing, after the game. And afterwards, he was told something he didn’t know. Football is the ultimate team game but still, an individual such as Banks still can change a game in a heartbeat. And that heartbeat came in the fourth quarter on Labour Day. With one touchdown, then another.
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