Misconduct | Who is your favorite player in the history of the Montreal Alouettes?

Let’s make one thing clear right away: we’ve banned our reporters from picking legendary quarterback Anthony Calvillo. Too easy to take the greatest player in franchise history. So we immediately exclude the three-time CFL MVP and three-time Gray Cup champion, the man with 79,816 passing yards, the one who chose to stay in Montreal to train the Carabins and then the Larks, okay?

Miguel Bujold

There are several, including Anthony Calvillo, who has always been a gentleman in addition to being unequivocally the greatest player in franchise history. I really liked seeing our Quebecers achieve success, I’m thinking of Pierre Vercheval, Martin Bédard, Luc Brodeur-Jourdain, Danny Desriveaux, Éric Deslauriers, Étienne Boulay and Matthieu Proulx, among others.

But I have always particularly liked Avon Cobourne, a running back from Camden, New Jersey, known to be one of the toughest and most criminalized cities in the United States. In 2007, Cobourne had agreed to be transferred to the position of linebacker in order to remain with the team, an idea of ​​Jim Popp, who wanted to keep him in Montreal at all costs. The following season, Marc Trestman had figured out how to use Cobourne well in the backfield and the Alouettes reached the Gray Cup game three years in a row. Cobourne excelled as much on the pass as on the ground, and was a spark plug like the Als have rarely had. He did, however, sign a contract with the Tiger-Cats in 2011.

I always believed that his departure cost the Alouettes a third straight championship. In fact, Cobourne had rushed for 145 yards at Olympic Stadium in the Tiger-Cats’ 52-44 overtime win in the 2011 Eastern Semi-Final. he escaped an easy pass on the last game of the match…

Simon Olivier Lorange

For various reasons, I have somewhat lost sight of our Birds over the years, but I was once an ardent supporter of the Alouettes. For example, although I have always been a model student, I missed half a day of Cegep to attend the Gray Cup celebrations downtown in 2002. I know, others went to jail for much less.

All that to say, I had a lot of admiration for Ben Cahoon at the time. Every time Anthony Calvillo sent a bomb through the air, we held our breath, until Cahoon, who diving, who with one hand, made a spectacular catch. Beautiful memories of a superb athlete.

Richard Labbe

There was a time, once upon a time, once upon a time, when Canadian football teams could compete financially with the powerhouses of the NFL. It was brief, but it happened, and it was against this backdrop of spending sprees that the Alouettes of the late 1970s and early 1980s went fishing for big names. In 1981, the big fish stolen from the NFL’s lake had a name of star : Vince Ferragamo, a graduate of the prestigious Nebraska, who led the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl.

The little fan that I was, knew this exceptional quarterback very well, and it was with overflowing enthusiasm that I already saw the Alouettes parade with La Grise somewhere at the end of November, but it’s not exactly like what happened. The handsome Vince Alouettes began their season with a 48-8 slap in Vancouver, and it was the start of a very long disembarkation. The Alouettes finished the season with a 3-13 record, and Ferragamo had an incredible 25 interceptions. Of him, the late colleague Robert Duguay would say this: “He never saw the 12^e man. »

Nicholas Richard

It’s when we look at the list of players who have worn the blue, white and red uniform that we realize how much the Alouettes have a glorious past. As defensive players never get enough love, today I want to highlight the illustrious career of Chip Cox. A small linebacker, Cox has always been a huge problem for opposing offenses. He was fast, strong and explosive. He ranks fourth in team history for most games played and his impact was felt both on defense and on special teams during the Sparrows’ glory days of the 2000s.

Cox had sublime vision for the game, which allowed him to make a ton of tackles, go for the quarterback or even return fumble recoveries in the end zone on a regular basis. Less popular than some of his teammates, Cox had a bit of a taste of the NFL early in his career, but it was in the nest that he made his mark, shattering several team records, including for the number of tackles.

Guillaume Lefrancois

I had no memory of the first incarnation of the Alouettes, the one that played with staples in their shoes. My first memories of the Alouettes are at the Olympic Stadium in the 1990s, and I found Tracy Ham quite spectacular. It’s easy to pick the quarterback, he’s the most prominent player on the team, but I’ve always loved mobile quarterbacks and that’s exactly what Tracy Ham was. He wasn’t the best in his position, but for me as a Canadian football neophyte, he put on a good show. He is therefore my favorite Alouettes player, just ahead of the late R-Kal K-Quan Truluck, a defensive lineman who had a personality as grandiose as his name, I have already been told.

Jean-Francois Tremblay

He’s not the tallest, but he’s certainly the most charming. In my entire career, I have rarely come across a kinder human than Luc Brodeur-Jourdain. A man who always answers, politely, who understands 100% the work of the media, and who is also pleasant when the microphones are closed. When I started the obscure blog Sans Filtre six years ago (it was a blog with first-person texts delivered by athletes), LBJ was one of the first to agree to give me an interview. He didn’t do it for visibility, it was a blog almost unknown to everyone, who hadn’t even published his first text yet.

However, he granted me a superb interview where he told the backstage of Anthony Calvillo’s cancer, and all the respect he forever granted to his general on the ground. Luc has become an honest family man, a respected coach, and a historic player for the Alouettes. All this while remaining, above all, a real good guy.

Jean-Francois Teotonio

Marc-Antoine Dequoy. Not by what he accomplishes on the pitch; the Quebecer is one of the best safeties on the circuit in 2022. But rather because his elimination from the second season of Big Brother Celebrities was memorable. Claudia was the boss that week. She had put Alouettes player and cyclist Hugo Barrette, two of her closest allies, on the block. But not so that they are eliminated, on the contrary: by seizing the veto, Bouvette’s intention was to get Barrette out of the block and install the actress Guylaine Guay, the target of the alliance. But against all odds, the house opted to save Guay, which led to Dequoy’s early and surprise exit. A great show. Like a fumble brought back to his own end zone.