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Old 08-16-2017, 03:09 PM   #72
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I came into the locker room and saw they had 31 and thought ‘that’s pretty fitting,'" Butler said after his first practice with his new teammates. “You go through the NFL, and (after) getting cut a few times, and I’m not going to keep changing the number.”

Butler was added to the Stampeders practice roster on Tuesday morning, but he may not stay there for a long.

Before making the move north, Butler was already training in his hometown of Jacksonville, Fla., hoping to land another shot in the NFL. Unfortunately, the opportunities he was offered didn’t seem to provide viable pathways to actually playing football, so he spoke with his wife and decided to give the CFL a shot.

It couldn’t have been an easy decision, as the Florida native keeps busy off-the-field running the Mario Butler Foundation, which provides scholarships, camps and mentorships to children in his hometown.
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