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Posted on 17/01/08

Austin leaves Roughriders, returns home

When Kent Austin's demand to be traded from the Saskatchewan Roughriders was granted in 1994, he was arguably the most hated man in the football-crazed province.His return to Regina with the B.C. Lions later that season was greeted with hostility as fans took a sledgehammer to a green-and-white Austin Mini adorned with the quarterback's number, 5.

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