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Watch: Redblacks GM Marcel Desjardins leaves game after sideline collision

Ottawa Redblacks' GM Marcel Desjardins was hit by falling Lions' returner Chris Rainey Thursday and was taken to the locker room for evaluation. (TSN.)

Football games can certainly be hazardous for the players, but it's rare to see them be dangerous for the general manager. That's what happened in Thursday's CFL clash between the B.C. Lions and the Ottawa Redblacks, though, as a hit on B.C. running back/returner Chris Rainey drove him into Ottawa general manager Marcel Desjardins on the sidelines. Desjardins was then helped to the locker room for evaluation:

An odd coda to this is that Argonauts' defensive end Shawn Lemon has been accused of celebrating the hit publicly. Lemon, who played for Ottawa for half of last season, famously had a war of words with Desjardins over supposed texts in January, and he put out some vague tweets just after the Desjardins hit. Some Redblacks' fans accused Lemon of celebrating Desjardins getting hurt, and he denied his tweets were about that:

There's no way to prove what Lemon was or wasn't tweeting about here, so it would be unusual to see any formal fallout from this, but the timing is certainly curious if his tweets were in fact unrelated. Meanwhile, TSN's Matthew Scianitti has reported that Desjardins took a hit to the knee, got up, then fell down again before being helped off, but he appears to be okay now. That's good news for him and for the Redblacks; having the general manager hurt certainly wouldn't help.