{"id":655437,"date":"2026-05-08T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655437\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:45:14","slug":"former-cfl-kicker-boris-bede-signs-with-paris-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655437\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CFL kicker Boris Bede signs with Paris Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Boris-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto courtesy: Edmonton Elks<\/p>\n<p>Former CFL kicker Boris Bede has signed with the Paris Lights of American Football League Europe (AFLE), the team announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old most recently played for the Edmonton Elks in 2024, when he connected on 27-of-34 field goal attempts (79.4 percent) and 38-of-39 convert attempts (97.4 percent) over 16 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-four, 225-pound specialist originally started his CFL career with the Montreal Alouettes in 2015, earning an All-East Division selection that same season. He was traded to the Toronto Argonauts in 2020 and spent three seasons with the Boatmen, earning two All-East Division selections and winning one Grey Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Bede played 144 regular-season CFL games, made 276-of-332 field goal attempts (83.1 percent), and 275-of-296 convert attempts (92.9 percent). He also punted 649 times for a gross average of 44.5 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Toulon, France played collegiately at Universit\u00e9 Laval, where he won two Vanier Cups.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778222713_472_76de80683d65348bb5b5c33259db26f7d6d1a64106b6ba6e2dcd31c5650d324a.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-60 photo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3DownNation-Wordmark-v3-3.svg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: Edmonton Elks Former CFL kicker Boris Bede has signed with the Paris Lights of American Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,100127,242869,187773,49,48,7028,521,522,520,23752,77213,527,144333,941,209101,82,3302],"class_list":["post-655437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-argonauts","tag-bede","tag-boris-bede","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-edmonton","tag-elks","tag-football","tag-kicker","tag-montreal-alouettes","tag-paris-lights","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655437","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=655437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}