John Comiskey is a professional Canadian football

Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

 centre currently playing for the Calgary Stampeders

Calgary Stampeders

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 of the Canadian Football League

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Early years

Comiskey played for the Windsor AKO Fratmen of the Canadian Junior Football League

Canadian Junior Football League

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, where he was an all-star and part of the 1999 National Junior Champions. He played at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 in 2000 as a freshman, then played for the Windsor Lancers

Windsor Lancers

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 in 2002 and 2003 and acted as the team captain in 2002.

Professional career

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...

 chose Comiskey 19th overall in the third round of the 2005 CFL Draft

2005 CFL Draft

-Round one:-Round two:-Round Three:-Round Four:-Round Five:-Round Six:...

 and he played seven games of the 2005 CFL season

2005 CFL season

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 and all 18 games of the 2006 CFL season

2006 CFL season

-2006 Rogers CFL Awards:* CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award – Geroy Simon , BC Lions* CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award – Brent Johnson , BC Lions* CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award – Brent Johnson , BC Lions...

 for the Stampeders. Comiskey played 13 regular season games of the 2007 CFL season

2007 CFL season

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 for Calgary and the West

Canadian Football League West Division

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 Semi-Final game, missing five games due to a shoulder nerve injury.

Comiskey was traded to the Edmonton Eskimos

Edmonton Eskimos

The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...

 along with Kevin Challenger

Kevin Challenger

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 and the 11th and 19th overall picks in the 2008 CFL Draft

2008 CFL Draft

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 in exchange for the Eskimos' second and tenth overall picks in the 2008 draft. The trade allowed him to play alongside his older brother Dan Comiskey

Dan Comiskey

Dan Comiskey is a retired Canadian football offensive lineman who played 13 seasons for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted in the fifth round of the 1997 CFL Draft by the Roughriders...

 on the offensive line. He started all 18 games for the Eskimos at centre and was Edmonton's nominee for the CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award

CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award

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. He re-signed with the Eskimos on December 4, 2008, for two years plus an optional year.