Leif Pettersen (December 23, 1950 – July 30, 2008) was a receiver who played eight seasons in the Canadian Football League for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Three years later, as a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1979, he won the Lew Hayman Trophy.
After retiring, he spent eighteen years as an analyst for the CFL on CTV and Friday Night Football.
In 1992, he was considered for the position of commissioner of the Canadian Football League, but his asking price was too high.
[4] Pettersen died on the evening of July 30, 2008, at the age of 57 of a heart attack in Toronto.