Editing Rob Ford (section)

===Football coaching===
Ford volunteered his time to coach high school [[Canadian football|football]]. Ford first coached at [[Newtonbrook Secondary School]] in 2001, until he was dismissed over a dispute with a player.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Toronto Star|title=Rob Ford told he was unwelcome as a football coach at Toronto high school|last1=Cribb|first1=Rob|last2=Rushowy|first2=Kris|date=July 13, 2010|access-date=June 10, 2013|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2010/07/13/rob_ford_told_he_was_unwelcome_as_a_football_coach_at_toronto_high_school.html}}</ref> He coached at [[Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School]] from 2001 until 2013 when the [[Toronto Catholic District School Board]] dismissed him after a controversial television interview led to a review of his coaching.<ref name="star-20130522-football">{{cite news|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=May 22, 2013|title=Mayor Rob Ford dismissed as football coach at Don Bosco |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/05/22/mayor_rob_ford_dismissed_as_football_coach_at_don_bosco.html |last=Dale |first=Daniel}}</ref> Ford had donated $20,000 to equip the Don Bosco team and started a foundation, called the Rob Ford Football Foundation, to fund teams at other underprivileged schools struggling to field football teams.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Rob Ford a team player to schools|first=David|last=Grossman |work=[[Toronto Star]]|date=September 13, 2009|url=https://www.thestar.com/article/694944}}</ref>

In September 2017, Toronto Mayor [[John Tory]], along with Councillor [[Stephen Holyday]] and the Ford family, proposed renaming [[Centennial Park Stadium]] to Rob Ford Memorial Stadium to honour Ford's coaching. City council rejected the proposal, 24–11 in a vote on October 5, 2017.<ref>{{cite news |work=Toronto Star|title=No 'Rob Ford Memorial Stadium' in Toronto after council rejects renaming proposal |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/10/04/no-rob-ford-memorial-stadium-in-toronto-after-council-rejects-renaming-proposal.html |first=David |last=Rider|date=October 4, 2017}}</ref>