Milt Stegall Calls It a Career-Touchdown King Retires After 14 Glorious Seasons

Joel Lefevre by Analyst Written on February 19, 2009
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February 18, 2009 will go down in history as a tragic day for all Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans and fans of the Canadian Football League. Wednesday marked the end of Milt Stegall as a football player as he officially announced his retirement after 14 glorious CFL seasons. 

 

Stegall leaves the game as without question the greatest receiver in the history of the Canadian Football League.  Known as the Turtle man among other names today is a day all Bomber fans dreaded as Milt has been the face of the Bomber Franchise since he got here from the NFL back in 1995.  ''I have enough stored up right now where I can really ride into the sunset and really enjoy and not be sad that it's over, but be happy that I got a chance to go through it,'' Stegall said. ''It was a great experience and I'll miss it, but I'm not sad it's over.

 

Steaks leaves the game as the all-time leader in career touchdowns (147), career TD catches (144), and career receiving yards (15,153).  In edition he holds the single season record for most touchdown in a year with 23 in 2002, and most yards from scrimmage as he averaged 26.5 yards in 1997. 

 

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