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A former Grey Cup winning Calgary Stampeder who peacefully stopped a woman armed with a gun at a Florida high school says he’s no hero.

“I just did what I hope someone would do for my son,” Lin-J Shell told Postmedia on Saturday. “I love all my students, everyone of them.”

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Shell played for a number of teams during his CFL career, including the Stamps, the B.C. Lions, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Toronto Argonauts.

He is also a teacher at Jean Ribault High School in Jacksonville, teaching physical education for the past 10 years when he wasn’t on the grid iron during the CFL off season.

On Wednesday, Shell said a massive brawl between broke out in the school’s gymnasium that could have turned deadly.

He says the chaos started when an “irate parent,” upset by a social media feud between her nephew and one of his students, went to the high school with several other men and, allegedly, a small, black handgun.