The BC Lions organization is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of O.J. Brigance after a long and heroic battle with ALS.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs great a player as O.J. Brigance was, he was an even better individual,\u201d said his former teammate and current Lions director of community relations Jamie Taras.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had such a positive energy about him, no matter the day or the circumstance. O.J. was someone that everybody rallied around. He had that kind of presence about him and was a terrific teammate who was loved by everybody in the organization. Our thoughts are with his wife Chanda and their entire family at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brigance suited up as a linebacker with the Lions from 1991-93, appearing in 54 regular season games and two more in the playoffs. He earned West Division All-CFL after recording 20 sacks in 1993 before moving on to Baltimore from 1994-95.<\/p>\n
Winner of the Tom Pate Memorial Award for community service and sportsmanship in 1994, Brigance earned All-CFL honours and a Grey Cup championship with the Stallions in 1995.<\/p>\n
He then moved to the NFL, suiting up for the Miami Dolphins from 1996-99 and the Baltimore Ravens in 2000, where he earned the distinction of becoming the only player in pro football to win a Grey Cup and Super Bowl for the same city. Brigance wrapped up his playing career with stints in St. Louis and New England in 2001-02.<\/p>\n
Brigance returned to the Ravens in a management role for the next several years, guiding several players on their professional paths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Lions organization is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of O.J. Brigance after a long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-861990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861990","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=861990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}