Hopson played an important role for the football club on and and off the field. He was born in Regina and grew up attending Roughriders games. He played high school football at Thom Collegiate and ...

The latter came in Regina’s jam-packed, refurbished but dilapidated ballpark that he helped replace four years later with the $280-million Mosaic Stadium. Hopson had a lot of friends.

So it was fittingly coincidental his memorial was held in Regina on Friday, when four former Saskatchewan Roughriders joined Hopson — a 2019 inductee — in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.