EAST LANSING – Reach out for a handshake and it’s impossible to miss the massive ring affixed to Dan Bass’ right mitt. The gold and diamond knuckle-breaker was part of the spoils of winning the CFL’s 1987 Grey Cup with Edmonton Eskimos. And it remains a conversation starter to this day. Sometimes it results in a look as people attempt to figure out who he is, and it takes some longer than others to reach a conclusion. Bass remembered one day at work when a customer spotted a football photo he had displayed. The man asked if he was a Dan Bass fan. “I guess maybe you could say that,” Bass, the sales manager at Lakewood Chevrolet in Edmonton recalled responding. “Then he looks, I think he was a little embarrassed, he goes ‘you’re not Dan, are you?’ I says ‘yeah.’ … We’re just like anybody else.” It has been…
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