Jamal Campbell Story (Toronto Urban Hero)

[ArgoGabe22]

Jamal Campbell was just named a Toronto Urban Hero.

https://www.argonauts.ca/2017/09/19/argos-ol-jamal-campbell-honoured-toronto-urban-hero-award/

I hope every CFL fan recognizes that his football career is due in part to the Levelling the Playing Field program, where the team (Jason Colero to be exact) helped bring back a football program to CW Jeffries.

[argolio]

They showed that at halftime. Well deserved honour.

[jerrym]

Great to see the Argos get some credit for all their community work. Keep it up Jamal.

[jerrym]

Jamal Campbell talks about what the Argos coming to his Jane and Finch neighbourhood to his school changed his life in the video accompanying this tweet as he returns to the school with the Grey Cup to inspire others to follow their dream.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nine years ago, <a href="https://twitter.com/HeisTooTall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeIsTooTall</a> was introduced to football at <a href="https://twitter.com/CWJefferysCI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CWJefferysCI</a> through Level the Playing Field. Today, he returns to his high school with the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreyCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreyCup</a> 🏆<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArgosFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArgosFootball</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CFL</a> <a href="https://t.co/rzXzrugV6i">pic.twitter.com/rzXzrugV6i</a></p>&mdash; Toronto Argonauts (@TorontoArgos) <a href="https://twitter.com/TorontoArgos/status/955802305068060673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>