We don’t know exactly when the Edmonton Elks’ home opener will be yet in 2025, but I can tell you the first thing that should happen when the team sets foot on the turf at Commonwealth Stadium.
The Elks need to add Ed Hervey’s name to their Wall of Honour.
Hervey was a key piece on a pair of Grey Cup-winning squads as a player. He retired and went directly into the team’s scouting department in 2007, climbing the ladder at a firefighter’s pace, to be named the team’s general manager in 2013. Just two years later he’d built the team that brought the franchise its first Grey Cup in 10 years.
Then things went a little sideways. Hervey was abruptly fired in 2017, pulling him away from the franchise that he was rooted in for almost 20 years. Chris Morris, the team’s new president and CEO, described Hervey on Wednesday as someone who represents what the organization now strives to be under Larry Thompson’s ownership.
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