He was part of nine Grey Cup-winning teams as an assistant coach, head coach and CFL general manager. He’s a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and since 2000 had been evaluating talent for the Indianapolis Colts, one of the NFL’s top franchises.
On Saturday night, Cal Murphy died. He was 79.
Murphy died in hospital in Regina, where he lived with his wife Joyce. He had been admitted there earlier in the month after suffering broken ribs in a fall.
“Everyone in both the immediate, and extended, Blue Bomber family is deeply saddened by this news,” Winnipeg president Garth Buchko said. “Cal was a great ambassador for our game and for Canadian football in Winnipeg and Manitoba.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time.”
CFL offensive lineman Rob Murphy echoed those sentiments.
“Every time Cal would see me in the last 12 years. He would say these two things. ‘How are you still playing? And ‘You’re too fat,”‘ Murphy said on his Twitter account. “I will miss that man.
RIP Cal.
