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Bombers announce Mike O’Shea is new head coach

By Lara Schroeder & Russ Hobson Global News

Posted December 4, 2013 3:06 pm

Updated December 4, 2013 4:50 pm

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WINNIPEG – The Blue Bombers announced Wednesday that Toronto Argonauts special teams co-ordinator Mike O’Shea is their new head coach.

“O’Shea is a coach to be excited about,” former Blue Bomber Doug Brown tweeted.

O’Shea has all the qualities you want in a head coach. Well respected, authoritative, ballsy, and a true leader. Well done Miller.
— Doug Brown (@DougBrown97) December 4, 2013

O’Shea played 16 seasons in the CFL with the Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The 43-year-old is second all-time in tackles in the CFL with 1,154. In 1999, he was named the CFL’s Most Outstanding Canadian.

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He retired following the 2008 season and in 2010 was named the Argos special teams co-ordinator, where he served the past four seasons and earned a reputation for being as intense on the sidelines as he was as a player.

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O’Shea won three Grey Cups as a player and another as a coach.

His relationship with Bombers general manager Kyle Walters goes back to before his CFL career, as the two were teammates at the University Of Guelph in 1992.