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Pat Reilly has driven eight and-a-half hours from Kalispell, Montana to Edmonton to attend every single game, but one, in the six years his son has quarterbacked the Edmonton Eskimos.

He relates to what the fan base has going through waiting for his son to decide his future when he becomes a free agent Tuesday that very much appears will end with Mike Reilly departing to become a British Columbia Lion.

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Pat’s been going through it, too.

When I interviewed Pat and wife Rhonda the day before the report was published in Vancouver that Mike was about to return to the team he began his CFL career, a close commute to Seattle where he, Emily and their two young daughters live in the off-season, he said he didn’t know what decision would be made.

Pat and Ronda very much feel like they’ve been adopted by the community and make it quite clear they would be quite happy to continue the association with Edmonton for the rest of his Canadian Football League career.