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KAMLOOPS — We apologize in advance because Jeff Reinebold has hopped into the time machine and, through past experience, we’ve learned you can’t stop him, you just have to settle in for the ride.

So we’re probably not going to get to his college days at Maine — “Not really an athletic powerhouse or a cradle of coaches,” says the B.C. Lions special teams coach — where his crew included future NBA coach Rick Carlisle and wait for it, a high-scoring winger from the hockey team named John Tortorella.

And we’re probably not going to get to his stint with the Las Vegas Posse where he worked for Ron Meyer during the CFL’s ill-advised American expansion phase. The Posse’s first training camp was in the parking lot of the Riviera Hotel on a hastily constructed grass field 70 yards in lengths without goalposts and … never mind, we really don’t have the time to get into the saga of the Posse.

We don’t, in fact, have the time or space to do justice to Reinebold’s career but to understand the man, which takes some doing, let’s go back to the origin story of his coaching career.

The 60-year-old football lifer first fell in love with the CFL when he was at Maine and watched games on the CBC station out of Halifax.

“I just thought, ‘This is really cool. There’s so much going on here,’” he says.