Sean Millington

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Sean Millington (born February 1, 1968) is a former Canadian Football League fullback who is currently a CFL analyst for both cfl.ca and the CBC. He is also an actor in several movies and television shows.

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[edit] Before the CFL

Sean Millington was a student at Simon Fraser University where he played football. After he graduated, he was trying out for the New York Giants. During those tryouts Millington was quoted in a one-on-one with SLAM! Sports in August, 2006, that the best advise that he ever received was from then Giants head coach Bill Parcells who told him that "he was a diamond in the rough and that he needed to get more experience." Parcells then advised Millington to get that experience in the Canadian Football League and work hard there and things will work out. Millington replied that Parcells was right.

[edit] CFL Career

Sean Millington played as fullback in the CFL for 12 years with the Edmonton Eskimos, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the British Columbia Lions before his retirement in 2002. Most of Sean Millingon's accomplishments in the CFL was with the B.C. Lions who he played with the most in those 12 years (91-97/00-02) and was known in the league as the "Diesel". With the Lions organization, Millington was a two-time Grey Cup champion and was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian in the 88th Grey Cup game. In his other accomplishments with the Lions he was named CFL West Division All-Star - five times; CFL All-Star - three times; CFL Most Outstanding Canadian Player in the West Division - three times; CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award - two times; and was named as British Columbia's nominee for the league's Most Outstanding Canadian - four times, before his retirement.

[edit] After Retirement

After his retirement, Millington joined the CFL on CBC in 2003 as part of the broadcast panel during pre-game and half-time shows. As part of the panel, Millington was known not to hesitate to pull punches and tell things as they are, which created some interesting dialogue with former CFLer Greg Frers, with former teammate Darren Flutie and with his former GM Eric Tillman. However, after the 92nd Grey Cup game in 2004, Millington decided to resurrect his football career.

[edit] Returning to Football

After two years without football, Millington came out of retirement to play another year for the Toronto Argonauts in 2005. The Toronto Argonauts had a need for Millington's services, because in his 12-year career he proved he could run and block with power. With John Avery's slashing style and Millington's power game, the Argos had a solid duo in the backfield. And when Avery suffered a slight hamstring tear in the Argos' 35-32 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on October 16, the signing of Millington paid immediate dividends. However, on October 22, Millington suffered a ruptured Achilles heel in his right foot in the second quarter of their game against the Montreal Alouettes, which ended his football career, couple of weeks before the CFL playoffs.

[edit] Post-Football Life

After his second retirement, Millington rejoined the CFL on CBC broadcast and has a weekly column on the Canadian Football League's official website on [cfl.ca]. Although he was acting while he was playing football, Millington started to take on more roles after his last retirement being in recent movies like Are We There Yet? with rapper Ice Cube, Underworld: Evolution with Kate Beckinsdale and appearing in Blade: The Series television show as Bad Blood member, Bolt. Sean Millington also does personal training sessions and is an avid video game player. In his personal life, Millington has a wife and child back in Vancouver.

Preceded by
Mike O'Shea		 CFL Most Outstanding Canadian
2000		 Succeeded by
Doug Brown
Preceded by
Mike Morreale		 Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian
2000		 Succeeded by
Aldi Henry

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