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By PAUL DELANEY
Staff Reporter 

Vijil's Shock arena football career earns him special honor

Former EWU player is first to have jersey number retired

 

Last updated 5/21/2015 at 10:43am



It was a fittingly strange journey in an oddly strange game that made Raul Vijil a hero in his new hometown.

For a kid that grew up in his real hometown of Pasco, Wash. dreaming of being a star in the other futball — soccer — Vijil realized a surreal dream of now seeing his No. 15 jersey will hang from the rafters of the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.

His jersey retirement May 16 at halftime of the Spokane Shock’s Arena Football League game with San Jose proved to be the only thing fans had to cheer about in a record 83-28 beat down at the hands of the Sabercats.

And those who opted...



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