{"id":12877,"date":"2026-05-08T15:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/12877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:27:31","slug":"former-cfl-kicker-boris-bede-signs-with-paris-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/12877\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CFL kicker Boris Bede signs with Paris Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Boris-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto courtesy: Edmonton Elks<\/p>\n<p>Former CFL kicker Boris Bede has signed with the Paris Lights of American Football League Europe (AFLE), the team announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old most recently played for the Edmonton Elks in 2024, when he connected on 27-of-34 field goal attempts (79.4 percent) and 38-of-39 convert attempts (97.4 percent) over 16 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-four, 225-pound specialist originally started his CFL career with the Montreal Alouettes in 2015, earning an All-East Division selection that same season. He was traded to the Toronto Argonauts in 2020 and spent three seasons with the Boatmen, earning two All-East Division selections and winning one Grey Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Bede played 144 regular-season CFL games, made 276-of-332 field goal attempts (83.1 percent), and 275-of-296 convert attempts (92.9 percent). He also punted 649 times for a gross average of 44.5 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Toulon, France played collegiately at Universit\u00e9 Laval, where he won two Vanier Cups.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76de80683d65348bb5b5c33259db26f7d6d1a64106b6ba6e2dcd31c5650d324a.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-60 photo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3DownNation-Wordmark-v3-3.svg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: Edmonton Elks Former CFL kicker Boris Bede has signed with the Paris Lights of American Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3980,3981,9623,9624,9625,3984,3985,3987,3990,367,3991,9626,30,9627,8105],"class_list":{"0":"post-12877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-3down","9":"tag-3downnation","10":"tag-argonauts","11":"tag-bede","12":"tag-boris-bede","13":"tag-canadian","14":"tag-cfl","15":"tag-edmonton","16":"tag-elks","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-kicker","19":"tag-montreal-alouettes","20":"tag-paris","21":"tag-paris-lights","22":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}