WR Ken-Yon Rambo (Grey Cup Champion - CFL)

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Argos duo Ken-Yon Rambo, Gerald Riggs still game to go
By Bill Lankhof ,Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Ken-Yon Rambo (above) and teammate Gerald Riggs are not ready or willing to admit that the game has passed them by. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

TORONTO - Ken-Yon Rambo is 34 and fighting to regain his past.

Gerald Riggs is 29 and fighting to lose ? or at least overcome ? his past.

Either way, the future of the two Argonauts lies in suspended animation.

Rambo, the once flambouyant Stampeders receiver with the winged feet, will tell everyone how good his wounded Achilles feels. He is a man of effervescent personality with a ready smile and bouyant mood.

He is the kind of guy who will tell you it?s ?all good?.

But, in all honesty, that Achilles is still an issue. It might be good. But it's not great. It?s still a work in progress and, well, who knows whether it will ever again allow him to be a 1,000-yard receiver. ?In the morning I get up I still feel it a bit but I get my treatment ... I got to do extra warming up. In the off-season I?ll go to a doctor and see what?s really going on. I?ll have more time to take care of it. I?ve been asking a lot of my Achilles.?

That?s as close as he?ll come to suggesting he is not the receiver he once was ? an all-star. A go-to guy. Everything he hasn?t been since coming off the injury list.

He has played five games after missing all of training camp and the first half of the season. His biggest game came against Hamilton; three catches for 66 yards. He has 10 receptions. All season. That used to be a pretty good day?s work.

But, if others don?t believe, Rambo certainly does.

Just ask him if he?s still the receiver he was in Calgary. ?I feel like I am! Look at numbers! Who is looking at numbers!? he says. There is incredulity in his voice. He looks like someone who just stuck his finger in a light socket. ?You can?t look at numbers. What numbers you looking at! I just got on the team. I just started playing four weeks ago. You can?t look at numbers. This man has been injured.

?You look at numbers when I got a full season. You look at numbers when I had a five-week (layoff) in 2010, then came back and had 1,200 yards. You can look at those numbers.?

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http://www.torontosun.com/2012/10/16/argos-duo-still-game-to-go

 

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Unlikely Grey Cup match has all kinds of juicy storylines
Former Stamps dot Argos lineup
By Allen Cameron, Calgary Herald November 19, 2012

And when receiver Ken-Yon Rambo was cut by the early in the year, he showed up in Toronto ? first to simply be worked out by the Argos (conveniently just prior to a Stampeder July visit to the Rogers Centre) and then eventually signed.

Rambo and another former Stamp, Tristan Black, are currently on the Toronto injured list, and they?re part of a list of ex-Stamps that also includes starting defensive back Ahmad Carroll.

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports...y+storylines/7568060/story.html#ixzz2Cg0CiWOk

 

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Rambo unlikely to suit up for Grey Cup against Stamps
Longtime Calgary star has been sidelined by Achilles issues
By Allen Cameron, Calgary Herald November 22, 2012

Rambo unlikely to suit up for Grey Cup against Stamps
Longtime former Stamps receiving star Ken-Yon Rambo is in a support role in Toronto.
Photograph by: Gavin Young , Calgary Herald

Toronto

The Toronto Argo with arguably the most to prove against his former team likely won?t be getting that chance on Sunday afternoon.

Veteran receiver Ken-Yon Rambo, who was cut at the end of training camp in June after seven seasons with the Stamps, confirmed on Wednesday that he?s a long-shot to suit up for the Argos in Sunday?s 100th Grey Cup.

Rambo, 34, played five games with the Argos, making 10 catches for 124 yards, but is currently on the Argos injured list after being a healthy scratch in games down the stretch.

?I could play; I feel like I could,? said Rambo on Wednesday. ?I?m the oldest receiver on the team and I?m trying to help out any way I can. But it?s going to kill me. But it is what it is. You have to cheer your boys on and help in any way possible.?

Rambo has been plagued by Achilles tendon issues for a couple seasons now, but he is firm that he still has plenty to offer to the Argos or any other team willing to take a chance on him.

?I feel like people are trying to make conclusions for me,? he said. ?I know what I?m capable of, I know what I can do and I feel great. I just had to get this Achilles right. I?ve done everything I can, I?m a hard worker in the off-season, but unfortunate things like this happen to athletes. I?ll probably change up some training, and I?ll figure it out.?

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports...ainst+Stamps/7592149/story.html#ixzz2CxRVWQgW

 

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Longtime Stampeder Ken-Yon Rambo didn?t dress on Sunday, but he was right in the middle of the celebration in the Argo locker-room.

?It?s big man, it?s big,? he said. ?I?ve been here since the beginning of the year; I had my own little trials and tribulations, and this team had theirs too. I put mine aside, I got healthy and I became not just a player but a coach also for the young guys on the team. I tried to set an example, and give as much knowledge as I could to toe young guys. I wanted to be out there, brother, especially against my old team. But it feels good to get the ?W?.?

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports...+Double+Blue/7608404/story.html#ixzz2DL1RQ9k5

 

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Argonauts release import wide receiver Ken-Yon Rambo

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. ? The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, Feb. 05 2013,

The Toronto Argonauts released wide receiver Ken-Yon Rambo on Tuesday.

Rambo signed with the Argos in August 2012 and played in only five regular-season games but did not dress during the team?s playoff run and eventual Grey Cup championship.

The 34-year-old recorded 10 catches for 124 yards during those five games with Toronto.

Prior to the Argos, he spent seven seasons with the Calgary Stampeders before the team released him in June 2012 after Rambo?s Achilles tendinitis flared up during training camp.

He helped the Stamps win the 2008 Grey Cup and was eighth on the club?s all-time list for receptions (406) and receiving yards (5,995).

Rambo arrived in Calgary in 2005 after a brief NFL tenure. He was a 2001 seventh-round draft pick of the Oakland Raiders but was a late cut.

He played two years with the Dallas Cowboys as a receiver and kick-returner before being released. Rambo later joined the New York Jets but never appeared in any games.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...t-wide-receiver-ken-yon-rambo/article8279028/