It was the noted one-hit wonders known as
Chumbawamba who famously said, ‘I get knocked down, but I get up again.’ Solomon Elimimian knows a thing or two about that. Hall of Fame players of his caliber are typically only remembered for their glorious moments. In the case of Solly, there was hoisting that Grey Cup in 2011. There was 2014 when he was the first-ever on defence to win CFL Most Outstanding Player.
Who can forget winning his second league Outstanding Defensive nod one year after being carted off Hamilton’s Tim Hortons Field with a ruptured Achilles tendon? All of that will be in his bio when he one day gets inducted to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame: ironically now on-site in that same Hamilton venue.
Elimimian: I came, I saw, and I thrived
The veteran linebacker announces his retirement from football after a storied CFL career with the Lions and Roughriders.
Solomon Elimimian Solomon Elimimian with Most Outstanding Player, Most Outstanding Defensive Player trophies , The Canadian Press
I learned early in my football life that people would doubt me and that I would have to overcome.
That’s really what my football journey has been about.
Right from my days growing up in Los Angeles, where I was considered too small to play college football, to my final season in the CFL, where I was a West Division all-star in Saskatchewan after some people thought I was done following nine years with the BC Lions.