He\u0027s still adjusting to life in Canada and the style of the Canadian Football League.
With his team’s playoff hopes flickering and extinguished as soon as Saturday night, Thomas Schaffer is still absorbing new rules in a new city and a new country more than 6,000 kilometres, across an ocean, from his home.When Schaffer, who grew up in Austria, was 14, he carried a card with proof of his age any time he went near a football field.
The road has been bumpy at times, but the defensive lineman who’s now 6-7 and 301 pounds figures he’s the better for it.As a kid, Schaffer was involved in a lot of sports, including soccer, handball, basketball, skiing, snowboarding and basketball. “I spoke OK English. I was able to communicate,” Schaffer said. “But the first two or three months, I carried a dictionary with me.
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