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The household of CFL Hall of Famer Milt Stegall has issued a connection connected the abrupt decease of his 20-year-old son, Chase.
'We are profoundly touched by the outpouring of emotion and appreciation,' household connection says
CBC News
· Posted: Jun 04, 2025 12:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago
The household of CFL Hall of Famer Milt Stegall has issued a connection connected the abrupt decease of his 20-year-old son, Chase.
Chase Stegall died Monday greeting astatine his residence astatine DePaul University successful Chicago, wherever helium was a sophomore with the school's shot team.
He was the eldest lad of Milt and Darlene, and member to Collin.
"It is with profound sadness that we denote the abrupt passing of our beloved lad and brother, Chase Hamilton Stegall. Chase lived a beingness filled with love, kindness, and talent, and his representation volition beryllium everlastingly etched successful our hearts," the connection says.
"We are profoundly touched by the outpouring of emotion and appreciation for Chase and the galore gifts helium shared passim his life. Your heartfelt condolences and enactment mean much than words tin express.
"As a family, we inquire for privateness arsenic we grieve this profoundly achy loss."
No origin of decease has been given.
Chase was often seen astir the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and their aged Polo Park-area stadium successful the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s.
His dad, Milt, who retired from playing successful 2009, was 1 of the astir fashionable Bombers successful squad history. He played successful bluish and golden from 1995-98 before suiting up for the New Orleans Saints but tearing his ACL.
He came backmost to the Bombers from 1999-2008 and enactment his stamp each implicit the CFL grounds books.
He was named a part all-star 8 times, a league all-star six times and the league's astir outstanding subordinate successful 2002. He holds virtually each Bombers receiving grounds and is the CFL all-time person successful vocation touchdowns with 147.
"Chase was a agleam and talented young antheral with a promising future, and his nonaccomplishment is felt profoundly crossed our full Blue Bombers family," said a connection Monday from Blue Bombers president and CEO Wade Miller, whose vocation with the Bombers was overlapped by Stegall's.
Tributes and condolences person besides been expressed by the CFL, the league's TV broadcaster, TSN, the NHL's Winnipeg Jets, and dozens upon dozens of fans connected societal media.
Milt Stegall has been a CFL expert connected TSN's studio sheet since his retirement.
No details astir a memorial work for Chase have been announced.
"In this clip of grief, we instrumentality comfortableness successful knowing however galore lives helium touched and we volition proceed to honour Chase's representation with the emotion and airy helium brought into the world," the Stegall household connection says.
"As a family, we inquire for privateness arsenic we grieve this profoundly achy loss."
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