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܂ WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2018܂ 1B
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FOOTBALL
So you think you want to be a QB?
Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive end Justin Capicciotti (94) makes a tackle on BC Lions quarterback Travis Lulay (14) at Tim Hortons Field.
PHOTOS BY JOHN E. SOKOLOWSK/USA TODAY SPORTS
Regis grad Lulay
has endured ups,
downs during
his CFL career
Bill Poehler Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
Millions of young boys grow up
dreaming of playing quarterback for
a professional football team.
The lure of the glory of being the
face of a football franchise, being
named the best player in the league
and hoisting a huge trophy after
winning a championship is awe-
some.
Travis Lulay has had all of that.
But he’s also experienced the
downsides of being a quarterback in
his 13 years as a professional like be-
ing repeatedly seriously injured, be-
ing released by a team to which he’s
been loyal and being benched for a
younger quarterback hailed as the
future of the franchise.
Since graduating from Stayton’s
Regis High School in 2002, Lulay
Lulay attempts to advance to ball against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
has ridden the carousel of football
through almost every conceivable
up and down.
He’s been the starting quarter-
back on a playoff Montana State
team as a freshman, the Canadian
Football League’s Most Outstanding
player after winning the Grey Cup in
2011 and a week ago assumed his
starting quarterback spot for the
B.C. Lions for the first time in 10
months.
But he’s also been released three
times by NFL teams, trekked
through three professional leagues
in search of a job and had three ma-
jor surgeries: One on his right shoul-
der after playing for the Berlin
Thunder of NFL Europe in 2007, an-
other on his right shoulder in 2013
and the right knee in September of
2017.
“I’m essentially playing on the
shoulder I had surgery on, dislocat-
ed, had surgery on and dislocated
again,” the 6-foot-2, 217 pound Lulay
said.
Lulay was a free agent before this
season and with Jonathon Jennings
seemingly the next face of the B.C.
Lions franchise under center, some
expected new general manager Ed
Hervey to let Lulay go.
Instead Hervey took a chance by
signing the 34-year-old, who was
still recovering from his third major
surgery in nine years, to a one-year
contract.
“As my injuries came around, the
club believed that I still had good
football in me,” Lulay said.
What may be the most difficult
See LULAY, Page 2B
Teacher enjoys demonstrating outdoor skills
Fishing
Henry Miller
Guest columnist
NETARTS BAY – At a certain point in
life, if you’re lucky, you come to the real-
ization that you enjoy teaching outdoor
skills to others more than you like doing
it yourself.
Case in point: Salem resident Jeanne
Doyle-Goodwin, who with her husband,
Paul, was one of the dozen or so partici-
pants in a “Clamming the Oregon Coast”
workshop at Netarts, just south of Till-
amook.
The leader was Jon Yoder of Salem
Environmental Education. I was some-
thing of an adjunct clamming coach and
fifth wheel on the expedition.
Doyle-Goodwin was a first-timer.
It became apparent that given the
huge crowd of clammers turning the
sand into a cratered landscape that the
best opportunity for novices would be
raking cockles rather than pursuing the
larger but frustratingly deeply buried
gapers.
First lesson: A wide garden rake like
the one that Jeanne brought will work,
but the emphasis is on the word “work.”
So I lent her my cockle rake, a narrow
long-tined implement designed for
turning the dirt or working fertilizer or
seed into the soil in the garden.
But it also is da bomb for getting the
tasty bivalves out of the sand and mud.
In my capacity as assistant clam-
ming coach, I gave her a few tips, and
Jeanne began working her way across
the sand.
Ka-ching!
The first one went into her bucket,
small but eminently satisfying, as told
by the grin on Jeanne’s face.
About 45 minutes of intense raking
later, she had a limit.
“Well, it was hard work, but it was
fun. And I liked doing cockles more than
clams … because I had a good tutor,
Henry,” she said, then laughed.
It was nothing, trust me.
And then the pupil became the teach-
er as Jeanne handed my rake off to Su-
san Russell, another workshop partici-
pant and the wife of a longtime YMCA
buddy of mine, John.
“So it’s really pretty shallow, Susan,”
Jeanne said about her newly acquired
cockle-raking technique. “He (meaning
me) said just scrape at the top and may-
be 1 (inch) deep.”
Susan began working the rake.
“I think I just felt one,” she said about
a telltale thunk as the rake tines hit
something solid.
“I heard it,” Jeanne confirmed.
“And there it is,” I said as the cockle
made its appearance on the next pass of
the rake.
Susan smiled.
“That’s No. 2,” she said. “I’m on a roll.”
Rake, rake, rake.
Susan: “Did you hear that?”
Jeanne: “Got another one.”
Thunk into the bucket.
It takes a village to catch a clam.
See SKILLS, Page 2B
First-timer Jeanne Doyle-Goodwin of
Salem shows off the fruits of her newly
acquired cockle-raking prowess. HENRY
MILLER/SPECIAL TO THE STATESMAN JOURNAL