All-Time Blue Bombers Team sees Leo Lewis cloned to play 2 positions

By: Gary Lawless Posted: 4:01 PM CDT Friday, Oct. 24, 2014

Cloning Leo Lewis would have made his coach Bud Grant and Blue Bombers fans happy and what can’t happen in real life can in our fantasy sculpting of a football team.

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Cloning Leo Lewis would have made his coach Bud Grant and Blue Bombers fans happy and what can’t happen in real life can in our fantasy sculpting of a football team.

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Cloning Leo Lewis would have made his coach Bud Grant and Blue Bombers fans happy and what can’t happen in real life can in our fantasy sculpting of a football team.

Last week Lewis was chosen as the kick returner on our All-Time Blue Bombers Team and this week he was elected as the running back.

Lewis edged out Charles Roberts with Willard Reaves, Gerry James and Fritz Hansen also posting strong results in the poll.

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A member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, Lewis won four Grey Cups with the Bombers over an 11-year career.

Voted one of the CFL’s Top 50 players (29th overall) by TSN, Lewis has been tabbed by legendary Bombers coach Bud Grant as the best player he ever coached.

Lewis is also a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame.

Voters have previously selected:

Ken Ploen as the quarterback,
Chris Walby as the offensive lineman,
Greg Battle as the linebacker,
Bob Cameron as the kicker and
Lewis as both kick returner and running back of the Free Press/TSN 1290 All-Time Bombers Team.

Voting began Monday and fans were given the choice of five kick returners as chosen by the All-Time Blue Bombers Team panel, comprising legendary coach Bud Grant, former player and GM Paul Robson, Hall of Fame football writer Ed Tait, Andrew (Hustler) Paterson from TSN 1290 and myself.

Next up is defensive lineman. The Free Press print and digital editions as well as www.tsn1290.ca will run stories Monday outlining the careers of the finalists selected by our panel.

Voting will take place on both websites.

Vote a maximum of once per day and help choose the Blue Bombers player you consider the best at the following positions, to be presented in this order: Quarterback, offensive lineman, linebacker, kicker, kick returner, running back, defensive lineman, defensive back and receiver.