Looking back at the five years I played with Wade, at this point in the off-season, when most of us were skittishly preparing for our lives and schedules to be turned inside out and upside down by the 14-hour days of training camp and the 20-plus-game schedules on the docket, he was always as happy as a clam anticipating the vacation from his even more time-consuming business schedule, which ended with the "break" of the commencement of training camp.

Former Blue Bomber fullback, linebacker, special teams dervish, and top team antagonist (now a successful multi-company entrepreneur) Wade Miller was recognized nationally last week with inclusion in the Caldwell Partners' Top 40 Under 40 group as "an individual who has achieved a significant level of success before the age of 40 and whom is one of Canada's top leaders of today and tomorrow," an award won only last year by now-CFL commissioner Mark Cohon.