Goveia brings passion to for football to new role as Ticats GM
HAMILTON — Ted Goveia’s passion for his childhood team was evident as the lifelong football man was sworn in as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ new general manager on Friday.
“When I was a kid, the minimum wage was $2.85,” Goveia, from nearby from Burlington, Ont., said at his introductory press conference inside the Ticats’ locker room at Tim Hortons Field. “I saved my money to come to as many games as I could.
“I’m an old lineman and I could name the starting O-line for a decade. My whole childhood was spent at the ballpark. This is real important to me.”
As the news filtered out this week that Goveia was returning home to run the Ticats after 11 years in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers front office, he dropped by the ticket office to discover two former teammates from different teams in his playing days had purchased season tickets.