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'Sean Millington' (born February 1, 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former Canadian Football League fullback who is currently a CFL analyst for both cfl.ca and the CBC. He is also an actor in several movies and television shows.

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Before the CFL

CFL Career

After Retirement

Returning to Football

Post-Football Life

External links

Before the CFL

In 1984 Sean Millington was a student at Carson Graham Secondary School, trying out for the basketball team. He failed to make the team. The coach took notice of his size and speed and suggested he try out for football instead. The rest is history. After high school he attended Simon Fraser University, playing with the Simon Fraser Clan. After he graduated, he was trying out for the New York Giants. During those tryouts Millington was quoted in a one-on-one with SLAM! Sports in August, 2006, that the best advise that he ever received was from then Giants head coach Bill Parcells who told him that "he was a diamond in the rough and that he needed to get more experience." Parcells then advised Millington to get that experience in the Canadian Football League and work hard there and things will work out. Millington replied that Parcells was right.

CFL Career

Sean Millington played as fullback in the CFL for 12 years with the Edmonton Eskimos, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the British Columbia Lions before his retirement in 2002. Most of Sean Millingon's accomplishments in the CFL was with the B.C. Lions who he played with the most in those 12 years (91-97/00-02) and was known in the league as the "Diesel". With the Lions organization, Millington was a two-time Grey Cup champion and was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian in the 88th Grey Cup game. In his other accomplishments with the Lions he was named CFL West Division All-Star - five times; CFL All-Star - three times; CFL Most Outstanding Canadian Player in the West Division - three times; CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award - two times; and was named as British Columbia's nominee for the league's Most Outstanding Canadian - four times, before his retirement.
To date Millington is the most recent Canadian runningback to have rushed for at least 1000 yards in a season. In 2000 he finished the year with 1010 yards on 156 carries and ran for 6 touchdowns while sharing the backfield duties with import Robert Drummond. Until Jesse Lumsden in August 2007, Millington was also the most recent Canadian to run for over 200 yards in a game. During his second stint with the Eskimos in their October 30, 1999 game against the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders he ran for 225 yards on 29 carries.

After Retirement

After his retirement, Millington joined the ''CFL on CBC'' in 2003 as part of the broadcast panel during pre-game and half-time shows. As part of the panel, Millington was known not to hesitate to pull punches and tell things as they are, which created some interesting dialogue with former CFLer Greg Frers, with former teammate Darren Flutie and with his former GM Eric Tillman. However, after the 92nd Grey Cup game in 2004, Millington decided to resurrect his football career.

Returning to Football

After two years without football, Millington came out of retirement to play another year for the Toronto Argonauts in 2005. The Toronto Argonauts had a need for Millington's services, because in his 12-year career he proved he could run and block with power. With John Avery's slashing style and Millington's power game, the Argos had a solid duo in the backfield. And when Avery suffered a slight hamstring tear in the Argos' 35-32 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on October 16, the signing of Millington paid immediate dividends. However, on October 22, Millington suffered a ruptured Achilles heel in his right foot in the second quarter of their game against the Montreal Alouettes, which ended his football career, couple of weeks before the CFL playoffs.

Post-Football Life

After his second retirement, Millington rejoined the CFL on CBC broadcast and has a weekly column on the Canadian Football League's official website on [cfl.ca]. Although he was acting while he was playing football, Millington started to take on more roles after his last retirement with appearances in movies such as ''Are We There Yet?'' with rapper Ice Cube, '' with Kate Beckinsdale. Millington has also appeared in the television series '', Bad Blood member, Bolt. Millington also does personal training sessions and is an avid video game player. In his personal life, Millington has a wife and child back in Vancouver.

External links

★ Canadian Football League

★ Sean Millington CBC bio

★ Sean Millington's last game

★ Millington goes one-on-one with SLAM! Sports

★ IMDB page

★ SFU alumni page