Duane Forde is a Canadian Football League

Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

 broadcaster for TSN

The Sports Network

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 and a former player in the CFL. He is married to TSN reporter Sheri Forde

Sheri Forde

Sheri Forde is a Canadian reporter for TSN based in Toronto, Ontario. She reports on the various Toronto sports teams. She joined TSN in 1998 from Calgary, Alberta. She moved to Toronto in 2002 to work for CFTO then went back to TSN in 2003...

.

Born in Toronto

Toronto

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, Forde played twelve seasons for the Calgary Stampeders

Calgary Stampeders

The Calgary Stampeders are a Canadian Football League team based in Calgary, Alberta and named in reference to the Calgary Stampede. The Stampeders play their home games at McMahon Stadium...

, Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League . They play their home games at Canad Inns Stadium, and plan to move to a new stadium for the 2012 season.The Blue Bombers were founded...

, Toronto Argonauts

Toronto Argonauts

The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...

, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...

. Forde, who spent four years as the team captain of the Stampeders, had a consecutive games played streak of 150, counting regular season and postseason games, over an eight-season period. Forde's teams reached the Grey Cup

Grey Cup

The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...

 on five occasions (1991

79th Grey Cup

The 79th Grey Cup was the 1991 Canadian Football League championship game played between the Toronto Argonauts and the Calgary Stampeders at Winnipeg Stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Argonauts defeated the Stampeders 36-21 in an entertaining game....

, 1992

80th Grey Cup

The 80th Grey Cup was the 1992 Canadian Football League championship game played between the Calgary Stampeders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Toronto's SkyDome...

, 1993

81st Grey Cup

The 81st Grey Cup was the 1993 Canadian Football League championship game played between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta...

, 1998

86th Grey Cup

The 86th Grey Cup was held in 1998 in Winnipeg. The Calgary Stampeders won the game over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with a score of 26-24.-Game summary:...

, and 1999

87th Grey Cup

The 87th Grey Cup was held in 1999 in Vancouver. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats won the game 32-21 over the Calgary Stampeders in a rematch of the previous year's 86th Grey Cup.-Game summary:...

), winning twice (1992

80th Grey Cup

The 80th Grey Cup was the 1992 Canadian Football League championship game played between the Calgary Stampeders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Toronto's SkyDome...

 and 1998

86th Grey Cup

The 86th Grey Cup was held in 1998 in Winnipeg. The Calgary Stampeders won the game over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with a score of 26-24.-Game summary:...

).

Forde had previously played in CIS football

CIS football

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 for the Western Ontario Mustangs

Western Ontario Mustangs

The Western Ontario Mustangs are the athletic teams that represent the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada...

 from 1987 to 1990. While he was at UWO, the Mustangs lost just once in the regular season, and they won the 1989 Vanier Cup

Vanier Cup

The Vanier Cup is the name of the championship of Canadian Interuniversity Sport football and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl...

. Selected two times as the Mustangs' Most Valuable Player, Forde co-captained the 1989 team.

In 2008, Forde joined TSN as a commentator for their Friday Night Football broadcasts. Forde serves as the secondary commentator, calling games with play by play announcer Rod Black

Rod Black

Rod Black is a Canadian sports announcer for TSN and CTV Sports. He calls games for the CFL, occasionally for the The NHL on TSN, and used to call games for the Toronto Blue Jays, ending in 2009. He also calls Canadian golf tournaments for the PGA, on occasion bowling tournaments, curling, boxing ...

. Forde was also an analyst for TSN.ca's coverage of the 2008 CFL Draft

2008 CFL Draft

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. Before joining TSN, Forde served as a commentator for The Score's CIS

Canadian Interuniversity Sport

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 football telecasts from 2006 to 2007 and was a CFL analyst for Rogers Sportsnet

Rogers Sportsnet

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from 2003 to 2005.

Forde is a member of the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame.