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It’s two days after he announced his retirement from football, and Kevin Glenn is on the line from Detroit.

The plan was to conduct an interview with a Winnipeg sportswriter who covered his best years as a quarterback.

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The only trouble was the Saskatchewan Roughriders had just called. They wanted to talk to Glenn about possibly suiting up again, after starter Zach Collaros was injured in the first game of the season.

It ultimately didn’t work out with the Riders, but if that isn’t the perfect summation of Glenn’s career, I don’t know what is.

If Glenn ever writes the book he says he’d like to write, the working title has to be Have Arm, Will Travel.

The only player to be a member of all nine current CFL teams – he actually suited up for seven of them and started for six -No. 5 retires as No. 6 on the all-time list for passing yards, ahead of Ron Lancaster.

“The only hard part about it was knowing that I could still play,” Glenn said of the decision to call it quits after 18 seasons. “But at the end of the day, I was at peace.”