Most people aged 50 or older who lived in Canada in 1972 can tell you exactly what he or she was doing when Paul Henderson scored his iconic goal, to lift Team Canada over the Soviet Union in that classic Cold War hockey showdown. Rex Ryan sure does. The Buffalo Bills head coach lived in Toronto’s Don Mills neighbourhood from the late 1960s to late 1970s, along with his mom Doris, twin brother Rob (the Bills’ associate head coach and a top defensive strategist) and older brother Jimmy. Mom had relocated the boys to Canada’s largest city after getting a job as a professor at the University of Toronto, this following her split with the boys’ father, Buddy Ryan, then a...
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