Dana Gould

I was pretty heavily recruited.

I played what's called junior football, which is sort of a feeder for the CFL.

I played a little bit of that, and then I quit because the acting work was picking up.

But back in the day, like in the early 90s and stuff, there was like 21 Jump Street and X-Files and there was a bunch of – Oh, right.

There was so much stuff and I was on a Canadian series when I was a kid, when I was a teenager.

Cavs and Company.

It was like Degrassi.

It was called Madison and I pitch it down here as sort of a Canadian my so-called life.

It was kind of like that.

It was a lot of teen problems.

We had the first lesbian kiss on Canadian television.

Way predated, Ellen.

I played Derek Walkaluck, who was a pretty good egg most of the time.

Rarely got into trouble and was kind of funny sometimes.

The show was on five years, though, because it's just government grants and ratings don't matter.

Sure.

We're communists up there.

And the only reason, if I ever had a chance of playing in the CFL, is because there's that number, which goes from 16% to 20% of what needs to be Canadian.

It's not just guys from the American South.

Which, in Canada, just equates to big, fat, white farm boys.