Naming a football stadium after Rob Ford would be a direct slap in the face to high school football in general and the Toronto Catholic District School Board in particular. 

In 2013 – even before Ford admitted smoking crack - they fired him as coach of the Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School football team.  The Board didn’t make its reasons public, but their considerations would have included:

* Ford hired an assistant coach using an assumed name, knowing he had a criminal record (according to court records). 

* On the way back from football practice with a City employee he had convinced to be another assistant coach, Ford downed a mickey of vodka in two minutes (according to an affidavit). 

* The head of the High School parent council (who had voted for him) said: "All I want him to do is stop slagging our school . . . It is hurtful to the kids. He has to stop using our school and our students – putting them down to make himself look good."