Chuck Winters

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Charles "Chuck" Winters (born February 7, 1974 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Canadian Football League linebacker for the Toronto Argonauts.

Chuck Winters grew up in the tough Herman Garden projects of Detroit, Michigan. When Chuck was in middle school, gang violence began permeating the projects. For many, adolescence is one's search for acceptance. Like his head coach and many of his teammates, Chuck sought acceptance in organized sports such as baseball rather than acceptance in gangs or violent affiliations.

Although Chuck escaped the vicious cycle of violence himself, it eventually caught up with him when his 19-year-old brother Malik was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1998. Chuck knows all too well the feeling of fear that one has walking the streets of Detroit and he is committed to making certain that the same fear does not inhabit the minds of his fellow Torontonians.

Winters was a standout college football player at the University of Michigan from 1992-1996.

After leaving the game of football for several years, he spent several years playing in the Arena Football League, with the Detroit Fury and the Las Vegas Gladiators.

Chuck spends a great deal of time working with various organizations and is a great motivational speaker. He has an immeasurable impact on young people, and draws on his personal trials and struggles that he has endured in his life.

Winters hails from Detroit's St. Martin de Porres High School (closed 2005) where he won the MHSAA State Class C Football Title. SMDP is the same school that produced fellow CFL player Kevin Glennand former National Football League player Troy Kyles of the New York Giants.

He is part of the Toronto Argonauts Stop The Violence campaigns and ofetens speaks to students at different schools across Toronto.

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• Toronto Argonauts profile
• Arena Football page
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