Durant, Shivers reflect on Plaza of Honour inductions

It’s lone fitting that Darian Durant and Roy Shivers are being inducted into the 2024 Saskatchewan Roughriders Plaza of Honour together.

After each it was Roy Shivers who brought Darian Durant to Saskatchewan backmost successful 2006, successful a commercialized that besides saw 2007 Grey Cup champion Kerry Joseph travel to the Riders.

Durant, a 2013 Grey champion himself, reflected connected the week astatine hand, which includes the Riders Plaza of Honour meal tonight, and the authoritative induction ceremonial connected Saturday astatine halftime of the team’s contention against the BC Lions.

“You recognize what this play and this week is astir and of people going successful with the antheral who brought maine present to Saskatchewan, you bash a batch of reflecting and it conscionable brings backmost a ton of memories,” said Durant.

But, arsenic mentioned nary of Durant’s tenure and accomplishments successful the greenish and achromatic would beryllium imaginable without Roy Shivers who oversaw the squad arsenic wide manager from 1999-2006.

Shivers said Durant archetypal caught his oculus erstwhile helium saw the QB’s limb endowment connected show astatine a campy astatine Georgia Tech.

“He had a cannon arm, and you cognize you ne'er deliberation astir North Carolina putting retired shot players, it’s a hoops school. And we accidental him down astatine Georgia Tech, helium was throwing the shot each implicit the tract and everything, I’m similar hey he’s got a unrecorded arm,” said Shivers.

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Durant was besides a portion of past year’s induction ceremony, arsenic the 2013 Grey Cup title squad was enshrined.

He said moments similar that one, wherever helium signed dozens, if not hundreds of autographs, portion the Riders were successful the midst of a game, has made the erstwhile QB recognize conscionable however meant his clip present meant to Rider Nation.

“I had nary idea, and present that I’m retired and years distant and erstwhile you travel back, you truly get to consciousness however important the epoch that I had with my teammates but the epoch we enactment unneurotic and the occurrence that we had,” said Durant.

The Riders volition clasp a ceremonial to enshrine Durant and Shivers into the Plaza of Honour during halftime of Saturday’s location against the BC Lions.