In the spirit of the season, we asked Stampeders players a couple of holiday-themed questions. Here’s what they had to say:

What is your favourite Christmas carol?

Keon Raymond: Santa Claus is Coming To Town, the Michael Jackson version. I always loved little M.J.

Ken-Yon Rambo: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He had a very shiny nose.

Dimitri Tsoumpas: Jingle Bells. It’s up-tempo. Nice verses. I enjoy it.

Burke Dales: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. It’s a fun song, with a nice little jingle to it.

Steve Myddelton: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It’s the classic underdog story mixed in with holiday cheer and a raw tale of survival.

Jon Cornish: Jingle Bells. That was the popular one when I was young and carolers came by our house.

Randy Chevrier: The Little Drummer Boy. You know, with all those pa-rum-pum-pum-pums.

Jesse Lumsden: Carol of the Bells. You hear it a lot in church and choirs. It’s the song used a ton in Home Alone. Every time I hear it, I think of that.

Wes Lysack: The goofier ones like Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. Or the Jingle Bells remix about Batman and Joker.

Miguel Robede: Jingle bells is my Christmas favorite song.

What is your favourite childhood Christmas memory?

Randy Chevrier: My family did the midnight Christmas. We would get back from church and I used to love watching the old Christmas Carrol movie with Alastair Sim. Then we would open gifts and play games and eat snacks until three or four in the morning. It was neat. Now I just love watching my kids, hearing them run down the stairs so excited.

Jon Cornish: When I was young, Lego released this set — the Trauma Team. I wanted it so bad because I needed ambulance workers for all my spacemen Legos. So I asked Santa for it, I asked my parents, I covered all my bases. Then I went to the mall a couple of days before Christmas and I had a little extra money and I was so desperate I just bought it. Then I got it for Christmas. So essentially I doubled the health-care coverage for my spacemen.

Henry Burris: Receiving an Atari 2600. You can get a typical gift, like a Transformer, but to receive an Atari, that was huge. I was big time.

Dimitri Tsoumpas: Eating lots of food. Eating so much I couldn’t move. Then lying on the couch after and thinking about how much lean body mass I was gonna put on. Or my first barbell set.

Jesse Lumsden: Every Christmas morning, my family had a tradition of doing your stockings and then having a family breakfast before opening the rest of the gifts. My mom used to hate this but I still do it — I would wear my pajamas all day. Even for Christmas dinner, when people were coming over, I just refused to wear nice clothes.

Wes Lysack: Seeing as though I can’t remember my childhood (too many hits to the head), my favourite memory is of my son and how excited gets every Christmas eve for Santa and his presents the next morning.

Keon Raymond: It’s not from my childhood, but the year we won the Grey Cup, the whole family was coming off of that high and the kids were so excited. Getting to see the joy on their faces was a great Christmas moment.

Ken-Yon Rambo: When I got my first Big Wheel. I loved that thing. I got a bunch but the first one was great. My first Big Wheel with the kickstand. Loved that kickstand.

Burke Dales: Getting my first Crossman Pellet Gun. I may have been the only kid ever to go out rabbit hunting on Christmas Day!

Steve Myddelton: When I was like six years old, I got the Ninja Turtles van. It was something I actually wanted and something I actually got. It was amazing — it shot pizzas out of the top.

Miguel Robede: I woke up one morning and there was a 4×4 by the spruce the morning of Christmas.