Edmonton Elks CEO ‘extremely apologetic’ for how season has gone
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The Edmonton Elks' president and CEO issued an apology to Elks fans after the team's poor performance in the 2021 CFL season.
The president and CEO of the Edmonton Elks told 630 CHED he’s “extremely apologetic” for how the 2021 season has gone.
Going into Friday’s final home game of the season, the team has a 2-8 record and hasn’t been able to pull out a win at home.
“Frankly, we’ve had a very poor year,” Chris Presson said.
The Elks didn’t play last season as the CFL suspended all play due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the team returned to play this season, the club suffered a massive COVID-19 outbreak. Between that outbreak and other stand-alone cases, the club recorded 17 positive cases.
“Whenever you have an outbreak that we unfortunately did, it’s hard for us to recover from that,” Presson said.
He also pointed to the health and safety changes when the team came back as part of the reason for the club’s performance, calling it all a “perfect storm.”
“The guys are under a lot of mental pressure, and when you’re getting tested every other day, it certainly creates things in your mind because you don’t want to be the person that tests positive, that may have given it to a teammate,” Presson said.
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