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What will life after football look like for Eddie Steele?

It turns out he already knew the answer.

“I’m going to be working for a company called Share Canada, I’ll be in sales,” the former Edmonton Eskimos defensive tackle said of the chemical maintenance company in an interview with 630 CHED. “And move to the city of Edmonton. Edmonton is going to be home, my family and I are out here.

“My four years that I played here, I fell in love with the city, the community and the people. Built some really good relationships out here and there’s a really great opportunity for me in the business.”

As for the business of football, the door may not be entirely closed as of yet.

“Right now as a CFL player I am retired, essentially,” Stele said. “It has not officially been announced, I have talked to some teams, but I actually had to even turn down some teams who have offered.

“I never would have thought that being a kid from Winnipeg, always wanting to play for my hometown team, but here I am at the end of the road and I actually had to turn them down in terms of contract offer.”

The dollars just didn’t make sense.

“I am moving into a new phase of life, it’s a very awesome transition,” said Steele, whose job, basically, for the past 17 straight years has been playing football. “I know a lot of guys who struggle with the transition once football is over and I’ve done a lot of things in the past couple years to set myself up in a position where the transition will be seamless.”

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