WINNIPEG – Thirteen years ago, Trevor Harris got a sobering reminder there’s more to life than football.

Harris earned his first Grey Cup ring in 2012 as a rookie quarterback with the Toronto Argonauts. But that year, his parents, Tom and Suzanne Harris, were involved in a serious motorcycle accident.

“We didn’t know if they were going to make it or not,” Harris recollected Saturday following the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ walkthrough. “My dad had a broken neck and back, 75 stitches in his face and my mom had a broken orbital bone, her face shattered, ankle, wrist.

“They ended up making it and I just remember thinking, ‘Football is not this important. I need to go home and be with my family.’ So I got on the phone with my dad and the words he could muster were, ‘If you come home from pla

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