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Remembering Marcus Crandell on stampeders.com

Great little read.

Marcus Crandell was seemingly in a no-win situation.

From the moment he became a Calgary Stampeder, circumstances conspired to make his football life unpleasant.

For starters, when the quarterback from North Carolina joined the Stamps as a free agent in 2001, he was following some very tough acts. Consider the names of the starting QBs who had racked up miles of passing yardage for the Red and White in the decade before Crandell’s arrival.

Flutie. Garcia. Dickenson.

If the deck wasn’t already stacked enough against Crandell, the 2001 Stamps were in a team in transition.

For one thing, that was the first season since 1989 that a Calgary quarterback didn’t have the luxury of throwing footballs to Allen Pitts, one of the greatest receivers in CFL history. In addition, five all-stars from the 2000 squad — Dave Dickenson, Eddie Davis, Shonte’ Peoples, Marvin Coleman and Tony Martino — were no longer on the squad.

That was also the year franchise ownership was transferred from Sig Gutsche to Michael Feterik.

https://www.stampeders.com/2015/02/0...ence-paid-off/