“So 2012, my first year in Hamilton, we're knocked out but the Grey Cup was in Toronto and the Biebs is doing the halftime show,” Fantuz told Lawrence. “So I ...
I finally talk my way through and I’m talking to his buddy and he looks over at Bieber, and Bieber looks at me and does this,” Fantuz said, mimicking a dismissive wave and disgusted nod as if Bieber was a monarch shoeing away the help. “Fast forward, the day before the game, Saturday night, I’m like ‘it’s over.’ I haven’t found him so I put the jersey away and we’re going to go to this club. As one of the league’s premier Canadian players at that time, Fantuz was front and centre in the lead-up to that year’s Grey Cup.