A stirring moment Sunday at the coin toss of the CFL game between the Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes.
The mother or murdered football star Triston Reece wore her son’s jersey as she tossed the coin prior to the game.
“I’m going to try to do my best to hold it together,” she told the legue’s website on the phone from her home in Halifax on Friday. “It would be one of Triston’s dreams to do something like this. To me, I’m living out his dream, because he’s the one that introduced me to football. I didn’t know a thing about football until he started playing.”
Reece was a football player in Halifax who competed and played for Football Nova Scotia and Citadel High School. He was murdered in late July at 19, in a senseless shooting.
“Words can’t do this young man justice,” said Citadel Football in a Facebook post.
Dale Russell said she’s forgiven her son’s killer and wants them to speak to her.
“How you did it, you’re a coward and you’re weak,” Russell said in a recent interview. “But I challenge you to knock on my door.
“I’ve already forgiven you. You can knock on my door at any time and I would like you to explain to me why you did this. I just need to know why.”
