![John Candy and Joe Montana!](https://theconservativetake.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/montana-300x169-1.jpg)
Hall of Famer Joe Montana almost went north of the border to play in the Canadian Football League thanks to the late John Candy.
Nope. That ainât a typo!
What a way to start a Friday.
Back in the early-1990s, Candy â the Hall of Fame actor â was apparently trying to convince Montana â the Hall of Fame QB â to come join the Toronto Argonauts. Candy was once the co-owner of the CFL team.
Montana even told Rich Eisen things progressed so much that there were a few meetings between himself and Uncle Buck!
âHe was trying to get me to go to Canada, they just didnât have enough money,â Montana told Eisen, who then pressed Joe Cool on what wouldâve happened had the funds been in the account.
âI might have been wearing an Argonaut uniform,â Montana then admitted.
![Joe Montana.](https://theconservativetake.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-460833860.jpg)
John Candy and Joe Montana nearly linked up in the CFL
Well, I didnât think Iâd start my day by nearly rewriting the history book thanks to John Candy, but here we are.
Amazing. John Candy is on the Mount Rushmore of actors, and I donât want to hear otherwise. Uncle Buck was the first PG-13 movie I watched growing up, and I still laugh out loud at it to this day.
Not a lot from back then holds up, but that sucker holds up.
Great Outdoors is incredible, Planes, Trains & Automobiles still gets me a little teary-eyed every single Thanksgiving, and Cool Runnings is criminally underrated. Shoot, his cameo in Home Alone is still one of the best parts of that movie.
Yes, I know I left a lot out (Blues Brothers!). Trust me, I could spend all day doing this, but I have to go write about other things, too.
Anyway, Montana and Candy are obviously linked to Super Bowl XXII when Montana famously pointed out Candy to his teammates while in the huddle before completing the game-winning drive over the Bengals.
Candy went on to become a part-owner of the Argonauts two years later and apparently nearly changed the course of history by signing Joe Montana.
Obviously it didnât work and Montana was soon traded to the Chiefs, while Candy died of a heart attack at 43.
But I choose not to end this story on a sour note, because itâs a Friday and itâs not what John Candy would have wanted.
So hereâs Uncle Buck telling Macaulay Culkinâs teacher to get her gross mole chopped off her face.
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