{"id":627386,"date":"2026-04-25T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:53:12","slug":"probably-had-nails-for-lunch-glen-suitor-talks-roughriders-plaza-of-honour-newcomers-620-ckrm-the-voice-of-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627386\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Probably had nails for lunch\u2019: Glen Suitor talks Roughriders Plaza of Honour newcomers | 620 CKRM – The Voice of Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Glen Suitor the operative word in assessing the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 Plaza of Honour class of 2026<\/a> is just that: Class.<\/p>\n

Appearing on The SportsCage radio show Thursday, the TSN analyst and retired longtime Rider expressed his admiration for each of Rob Bagg, Dan Clark and Paul McCallum \u2013 not just as players but as people.<\/p>\n

Suitor added that the formal selection of Bagg as one of the team\u2019s all-time greats is especially timely with the CFL\u2019s annual Canadian Draft just around the corner.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re listening right now and you\u2019re a player that feels like he might get drafted this Tuesday and then don\u2019t get drafted, you can think about Rob Bagg<\/a>,\u201d Suitor said. \u201cThere\u2019s a guy who didn\u2019t get drafted, and ended up finding a way to get into training camp, worked his way through it, kept working out, kept believing in himself and then went and got into training camp, and then became a guy that\u2019s now getting inducted into the Plaza of Honour and that\u2019s a great story.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘Could be a Netflix story’<\/p>\n

Another one Suitor says could be a movie is the redemption arc of McCallum\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I look at how that went down, the miss that year and then the fan response, and now his response all these later years to it and just how he understood that \u2026 people were so emotional at the time,\u201d said Suitor, who played 11 years in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been through it too. In 1989 I made a mistake and there weren\u2019t many fans of mine in the province for about two weeks. Now that year ended up well. So I understand that. And I feel the same way as Paul. It\u2019s a really cool story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean I think it could be a Netflix story where he makes this disastrous miss on a chip shot<\/a> and the entire province is angry and emotional and he understands it, doesn\u2019t let it define him, gets back on the horse and gets back into an all-star form, and goes ahead and wins games for teams that he\u2019s played on, including Saskatchewan and then at the end of it all says \u2018I loved my time in Saskatchewan, I couldn\u2019t have been more honoured to be a member now of the Plaza of Honour.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a guy who has processed all of that, made the comeback and is not saying \u2018hey you guys were wrong and I showed you.\u2019 He\u2019s saying \u2018I understand your passion and thank goodness we have that passion.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

‘Probably had nails for lunch’<\/p>\n

Suitor reserved some of his highest praise for Clark, drawing a parallel with another beloved and long-time Rider offensive lineman.<\/p>\n

\u201cDan Clark for me was that generation\u2019s Roger Aldag \u2013 local guy, tough as nails. In fact probably had nails for lunch occasionally. And a guy that clearly \u2026 knows what Rider pride is and knew it before he was a member of the team. Grew up with it, understood the passion, understood whether it\u2019s a good situation or bad where you\u2019re being criticized, just how much the people of Saskatchewan care about their team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Glen Suitor the operative word in assessing the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 Plaza of Honour class of 2026 is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[224145,224143,49,48,521,522,520,224144,4398,224142,1893,4397,4402,4401,4400,4399,82,4403],"class_list":["post-627386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-100-year-celebration","tag-620-ckrm","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-ckrm","tag-country-music","tag-countrys-greatest-hits","tag-radio","tag-regina-news","tag-reigna-pats","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sports","tag-sportscage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}