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Legend of former Appalachian star Armanti Edwards gets another shot at a happy ending

Saw that the Saskatchewan Rough Riders traded Armanti Edwards to the Toronto Argonauts, and thought, good.

Good that Edwards, 29, still is still playing football. Good that the Canadian Football League’s premiere franchise, the Canadian Dallas Cowboys, wanted him.

The legend of Armanti Edwards goes like this.

He was a passing, running, leading, winning quarterback at Appalachian State, and behind him the Mountaineers won two FCS championships.

Edwards has good genes. He comes from Greenwood, S.C., the town that gave us former Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman and Wichita State basketball coach Gregg Marshall. (Ohio State needs a coach.