Up Close: Meet Roughriders offensive lineman Jermarcus Hardrick
'My wife helped me get a passport. Her mother actually paid for my passport, and the rest is history.'
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'I'll tell you the truth my first year, I didn't know 12 people were on the field. I didn't know anybody's name … I was just playing football, having fun.
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'I came halfway through the year … I showed up first week I thought I was gonna be on practice squad, and I was active.'
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'Not at all because I was on three teams in three years.
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'My wife told me in '16 when I signed with Winnipeg, this might be our last (year).
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'We had three kids in three years, and I had three teams in three years. So yeah, it was rough.
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'It wasn't even my wife telling me … She's was more like, 'Hey, life is happening.' '
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Any other sports growing up?
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'I played a little church basketball; wasn't organized really. I played baseball until about (age eight or nine) and we just played at our park. And it was fun. Didn't know anything. Went to a big city. We got blew out maybe 20-1. Baseball wasn't for me.'
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'I worked for the YMCA for like 10 years. I was a referee, I was an umpire. Did football (and) basketball.'
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'Any time I won a championship on any level.
'But I'd say my first game in Nebraska. I always dreamed of being on TV and dreamed of coming out. And I always wanted to play myself on a video game. The first time I got to play myself on a video game and my parents watched me on ABC down south, that was unreal.'
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'Usually just write my wife and kids names on my tape.'
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Hidden talent?
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'I can eat a lot (chuckles). No, no hidden talent.'
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What would you be doing if you weren't playing football?
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'Probably trying to coach (or) trying to use my degree. I'd be trying to do something positive; give back to somebody. I'll be trying to go save a young Yosh.
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'I'll never forget when I went to Nebraska and I took my visit, (coach said), 'You're gonna graduate from the University of Nebraska.' Nobody ever told me I was going to graduate before.'
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