Chuck Ealey - After Football

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Ealey is now a Regional Director for Investors Group in Mississauga. He also can be heard on Wednesday afternoons on the radio, giving helpful investment tips and advice on CIWV-FM Wave 94.7. He currently lives in Brampton, Ontario, with his wife, three children and four grandchildren. Ealey's son, Damon, also played football for the University of Toledo in 1995. A documentary film on his life, Undefeated: The Chuck Ealey Story was aired on November 27, 2008, in Toledo and scheduled for DVD release in December. Chuck Ealey is one of a number of black athletes featured in the book for young readers, Choice of Colours: The Pioneering African-American Quarterbacks Who Changed the Face of Football (2008). Chuck is featured in the 2012 documentary "The Stone Thrower" which tells the revealing and emotional story of how the gifted quarterback found refuge in Canada and the CFL in the face of racial intolerance in the United States. It is one of the Engraved on a Nation series of eight documentaries celebrating the 100th Grey Cup and airs on TSN in October 2012. He is also an honorary initiate of Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity.

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