Joe Montana says John Candy tried signing him to Canadian Football League

NFL legend Joe Montana didn’t take any trains, planes or cars to play in Canada. 

However the four-time Tremendous Bowl champion mentioned beloved comic and Toronto Argonauts co-owner John Sweet tried signing the legendary quarterback within the early Nineties.

“He was making an attempt to get me to go to Canada,” Montana mentioned on The Wealthy Eisen present. “They simply didn’t manage to pay for,” Montana mentioned. 

“But when the value was proper —“ Eisen responded. 

“I may need been sporting an Argonaut uniform,” Montana mentioned, including there have been a few conferences.

“So that is actual?” an incredulous Eisen requested. “It wasn’t only a ‘oh by the best way.’”

“No no no,” Montana mentioned. 

“I like that,” Eisen mentioned. 

Montana and Sweet are famously linked to Tremendous Bowl XXII. The 49ers legend identified the “Uncle Buck” star to his teammates whereas within the huddle earlier than finishing the game-winning drive for a 20-16 victory over the Bengals. Montana would hit John Taylor for a landing with 34 seconds remaining.

Two years later, in 1991, the Argonauts had been bought by LA Kings proprietor Bruce McNall with Kings famous person Wayne Gretzky and Sweet turning into minority house owners. 

The crew surprised the sports activities world by signing Notre Dame star Raghib “Rocket” Ismail, the projected primary decide within the NFL draft, to a four-year, $18.2 million deal. And the Argonauts gained the 1991 Gray Cup with Ismail incomes Gray Cup MVP honors. 

Then they set their sights on Joe Cool.

“We’d gained the championship and so forth and I assumed to myself, ‘Perhaps there’s a means of getting an actual famous person participant who’s nearing the tip of his profession,” McNall instructed The Mercury Information in 2016. “Perhaps it will be somebody who needs to strive a special venue and turn out to be the most important gun in Canada’s historical past.”

Alas, the Argonauts possession couldn’t persuade Montana to depart the NFL. Regardless of the very fact, he’d been battling accidents and Steve Younger for the 49ers’ beginning job.

Montana was traded to the Chiefs earlier than the 1993 season and spent the ultimate two seasons of his illustrious profession in Kansas Metropolis.

Sweet died of a coronary heart assault in 1994 on the age of 43.