5th All Time Linebackers Leo Ezerins (born August 10, 1956) was a linebacker who played ten seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
A gifted athlete he was also a three-time Canadian Champion Speed Skating Champion, Provincial High School basketball All-Star twice and played on the Isaac Brock Provincial Little League Championship team and the Winnipeg Hawkeyes Juvenile Little Grey Cup Championship team.
He recovered the first fumble of the game caused by Grover Covington which set the pace for an incredible defensive onslaught of the heavily favored Edmonton Eskimos.
[7] A Winnipeg native, Ezerins now calls Hamilton Home with his life partner Sandra Shields.
Recently he was named to the Globe and Mail's Power 50, a Member of the 100th Grey Cup Steering Committee, Honorary Member of the PPCLI Foundation, Member of the Canadian Sports Concussion Research Project (Chaired by Dr. Charles Tator), a nominee to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats All Time Team and Manitoba Football Hall of Fame inductee.