The Edmonton Elks have just suffered the hardest loss a team can take. Article content

While it’s true they are no strangers to picking themselves up after getting knocked down in the post-COVID era of the Canadian Football League, no amount of rough road could prepare them for dealing with the sudden death of owner Larry Thompson. Article content Article content

This loss isn’t one they will simply bounce back from.

While his time with his team was brief — he only bought the community-owned franchise in August 2024 — there’s not a single person who made more of an impact on the organization than when he threw a life preserver at their sinking ship.

If you want to put it in hockey terms, Thompson buying the Elks marked as big a shift in the CFL landscape of Edmonton as when that fa

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