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Best friends and former high school and university teammates to face off in hometown Grey Cup
Canadian football can be an incredibly small world sometimes, as we've seen brothersface each other (and play alongsideeachother) before, and now we have a pair of best friends facing off in Sunday's Grey Cup in Vancouver. Adam Berger, a defensive back with the Calgary Stampeders, and Kyle Miller, a defensive back/long-snapper with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, grew up together in the Cloverdale area of nearby Surrey, B.C., played high school football together at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary (one's going to be the first Panthers alum to have a Grey Cup ring), roomed together for several years and wound up playing university football at the same school, Burnaby, B.C.'s Simon Fraser University. As Berger told Kyle Benning of The Surrey Now, facing his best friend in the championship is a pretty unique situation:
“It’s kind of like the perfect storm,” said Berger, a Calgary defensive back. “This opportunity probably won’t ever happen again in our playing careers. The fact that we’re both in the Grey Cup and it’s in our hometown and everything. It’s going to be really cool.”
Lord Tweedsmuir head coach Kurt Thornton told The Surrey Leader's Rick Kupchuk the two were close in high school and wound up playing college football together unexpectedly:
Kyle’s parents moved when he was in Grade 11, so the Bergers took him in,” said Thornton. “He and Adam are close, like brothers. They were roommates at SFU.”
Berger was a quarterback with the Panthers, and Miller was his top receiver. But both went their separate ways after their Grade 12 season, with Berger joining the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Clan and Miller suiting up for Western Washington University Vikings in Bellingham.
“I think Kyle was under-recruited, he should have been recruited better,” Thornton said.
“Everyone wanted Adam, and SFU got him when they were still in the CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sports).
“But Kyle wanted the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), and he was a walk-on at Western Washington. But that program folded the year after he got there (2009), so he went to SFU to join Adam.”
Both players wound up switching to defence at SFU (which wound up going to the NCAA in 2010), and that wound up being a good career move. Berger in particular shone in college and was taken by Calgary in the fourth round of the 2012 CFL draft (30th overall); he joined the team last year and played sparingly on special teams (notching one tackle), but has worked his way into a more prominent role as a key special teams guy and occasional defensive backfield replacement this season, recording nine special teams tackles and six regular tackles. Miller wasn't drafted, but was signed and released by B.C. last year, then worked his way onto Hamilton's roster as a special-teams guy and backup long-snapper this season, notching two special-teams tackles. Neither's likely to attract a lot of attention Sunday, but both may play a role. Regardless of the outcome of the game, it's going to please Lord Tweedsmuir fans, and the families of both players. Berger's mom told Benning she'll be rooting for both of them:
Diana Berger, Adam’s mother, is attending Sunday’s game, and said she’s feeling very nervous.
“I will have both of their jerseys on,” she said. “Kyle said to me, ‘No matter what… the cup is coming back to Cloverdale.’”
