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.
He had a couple of cousins playing football; it seemed like a good sport for a guy so big. So football it was, first playing for the AFC Rangers when he was 13. “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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