Mike Matheson: watching Marc-Antoine Dequoy win and celebrate yesterday inspired him – Canada Boosts

As of yesterday, Montreal is soccer, because the Alouettes gained the Gray Cup by a rating of 28-24. It was an incredible second for the group, which hadn’t reached the ultimate since its final conquest of the trophy in 2010, but it surely was above all an incredible second for the various Quebecers within the group.

Whether or not when it comes to gamers or personnel, Quebec was properly represented. Even Anthony Calvillo, a Montrealer by adoption, broke out his French to have fun the victory.

Anthony Calvillo is a Mexican-American CFL legend born in Los Angeles, California.

However he’s additionally a long-time Montrealer who has discovered find out how to converse French #GreyCup #Alouettes pic.twitter.com/xNZQeGjcTH

– /r/Habs (@HabsOnReddit) November 20, 2023

That mentioned, the massive star of the night was Marc-Antoine Dequoy. The defensive participant is without doubt one of the pillars of the workforce, and within the playoffs, he took his sport up a notch.

And, in fact, he gave the speech of the year after his team’s victory.

Dequoy THE LEGEND pic.twitter.com/dL9fHD6H9t

– HFTV (@HFTVSports) November 20, 2023

He apologized a little for his speech afterwards, however the gist of what he mentioned stays: he’s proud to have gained for Quebec and, above all, he’s proud to have completed it in French.

And yesterday, whereas watching the celebrations following the Sparrows‘ victory, there was one attentive spectator who was really impressed by seeing Dequoy and the remainder of the workforce have fun: Mike Matheson.

Stu Cowan wrote about this in an excellent article earlier right this moment.

Matheson admitted that, watching the Alouettes’ celebrations yesterday, he couldn’t assist however suppose that he’d prefer to have that probability in Montreal in the future. Fairly a couple of CH followers hope so, too.

Having mentioned that, Matheson was additionally impressed to see how the Alouettes are usually not afraid to place ahead their Montreal heritage. He is aware of that it’s a duty to signify your market once you’re an athlete, as a result of followers are impressed by what you do and what you signify.

And whereas Matheson says the CH is attempting to do the identical, we agree it’s not on the identical degree.

I ask you critically: would you see a man like Rafaël Harvey-Pinard giving a Dequoy-like speech after the Stanley Cup win? Would you see Martin St-Louis doing what Jason Maas did and forcing his gamers to talk fundamental French?

Perhaps you consider in it… however with the overwhelming majority of the workforce talking solely in English (although enhancements have been promised for years), I don’t see it taking place for the CH.

And don’t inform me that it’s unimaginable to win by taking French classes: I believe the Alouettes confirmed yesterday that studying fundamental French isn’t precisely a hindrance to profitable video games.

We’ll see if Dequoy’s speech and the Alouettes’ philosophy have impressed anybody aside from Matheson… however I’ll consider it after I see it.

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– Chris Berman, an American, commented on the Alouettes’ victory in French on ESPN tonight. A category act, as he’s no stranger to such consideration.

Thanks, Chris Berman! En français#MNF @espn #CoupeGrey @MTLAlouettes pic.twitter.com/D3XqnyhCmB

– L.A. Lariviere (@L_A_theRiver) November 21, 2023