![]() Inside prison, former Winnipeg Blue Bomber running back, Tim Jesse, saw Garry’s physique while visiting the institution. I completed four training cycles in one year. It was like training camp for the mind and the body. I found a way to make my own little environment. “Right after that, the next thing you know, I’m taking university courses. Think! What are you doing? You’re pissing me off!' And I think that’s what happens with kids a lot. They said, 'You’re going to be in your thirties when you get out. The bigger I got and the harder I worked towards it, the more it offended people. ![]() I was in a sweat lodge, and it’s kind of like, I made a promise. ![]() I’m an atheist so I don’t believe in all that religion stuff. “It was very, very strange because it just came to me. His story is a remarkable one because while in prison, the thought of playing football turned his life completely around. He got out nine years later at age 32.įront: Garry Sawatzky and sister Kathy back: Wally Buono and Debbie Elicksen Garry was 23 when he was incarcerated at Stony Mountain Institution. He was sentenced to 18 months on a robbery charge, and his life took a turn for the worse in 1985, when he was convicted of second-degree manslaughter for stabbing an 18-year-old man to death - a result of a group altercation at a Winnipeg campsite. ![]() After one last physical fight with his father, he left home at age 17 and joined a bike gang. Garry Sawatzky was an angry young man growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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