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It’s CFL Draft Day  and who better to provide an overview of the general, and his individual, experience on draft day than Dayton Black, who was the Ticats’ first pick, sixth overall, in last year’s draft.

He was in the Ticats Audio Network’s video studio and chatted with Ticats Today, with the full podcast available in both audio and visual formats at ticats.ca.

Black’s answers, and our questions, have been edited for clarity and, as usual, the questions are in the bold face font.

Like you said, I was a Bombers’ fan my whole life growing up. I bled blue for 23 years or so. And yeah, that day was pretty wild, waking up, just trying to keep normal. There were a lot of emotions going on. You’re nervous. I’ve been working for this my whole life,  this is going to be my chance. There’s tons of emotions going on.

“Luckily I was able to spend it with my entire family and a bunch of my friends and a bunch of guys off the football team as well. So, that made it all so much better, just being with people that mean the most to me and that I care about.”

So Coach O  and all the staff in the room there called me three to four minutes before the announcement was made by  the Commissioner. It was pretty silent coming (towards the draft).  Hamilton brought me out on a visit and did some physicals and stuff. So, as it got underway in the first round I thought it was going to be with Hamilton. So when that pick came around, it was pretty nerve-wracking in the room. You’re just hoping to hear or get that phone call and hearing Coach O’s voice through that phone saying, ‘Hey man, we’re gonna take you here, it was a pretty surreal moment, feeling  like all that hard work over co