Dan Payne (born June 7, 1966 in New Westminster, British Columbia, raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played fourteen seasons in the Canadian Football League for four teams, mostly at right guard. He attended Purdue University on a full football/wrestling scholarship before transferring to Simon Fraser University. He played football and wrestled at Simon Fraser University. He was a member of four Grey Cup-winning teams: the Saskatchewan Roughriders (1989), the Toronto Argonauts (1996, 1997), and the B.C. Lions (2000). During his career, he also played for Hamilton.

Prior to his football career, he competed as an amateur wrestler, winning two NAIA national championships. In international competition, he won bronze at the 1987 Pan American Games in freestyle and Greco-Roman before representing Canada in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where he competed in both the freestyle (6th place) and Greco-Roman (13th place) competitions in the 130 kg division.

Dan Payne (Canadian football)

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1966 births

BC Lions players

Canadian football offensive linemen

Hamilton Tiger-Cats players

Living people

Canadian male sport wrestlers

Olympic wrestlers for Canada

Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada

People from Port Coquitlam

Players of Canadian football from British Columbia

Saskatchewan Roughriders players

Purdue Boilermakers football players

Simon Fraser Red Leafs football players

Simon Fraser University alumni

Sportspeople from New Westminster

Toronto Argonauts players

Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Pan American Games medalists in wrestling

Wrestlers at the 1987 Pan American Games

Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games

Dan Payne (Canadian football)