CFL West Division final coaches Dickenson, Buono know each other well
CALGARY — Wally Buono and Dave Dickenson have a long history together as coach and player. Dickenson was a quarterback on Buono’s teams for nine seasons with the Calgary Stampeders and then the B.C. Lions.
One will block the other’s path to this year’s Grey Cup when they go head to head coaching against each other in Sunday’s West Division final.
Dickenson, in his first year as head coach of the Stampeders, faces a man who has been a head coach in the CFL for 22 seasons. Of the five Grey Cups that Buono has hoisted, Dickenson was in on two of them — one as a Lion in 2006 and the other as a Stampeder in 1998.
Dickenson’s Stampeders (15-2-1) and Buono’s Lions (12-6) clash Sunday at McMahon Stadium for the right to play in the Grey Cup in Toronto on Nov. 27.