Drake was among the 44,000-plus fans at Rogers Centre to witness the Toronto Blue Jays’ decisive Game 1 World Series win Friday night and he did so while paying homage to late former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
While watching the series opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers from a private box in right field, Drake, celebrating his 39th birthday, was photographed sporting a green and yellow letterman jacket for the Don Bosco Eagles high school football team.
Embroidered on the right side was the name R. Ford.
The jacket, while similar, is not the same one worn by Ford during his tenure as the school’s volunteer head coach throughout the 2000s and during his time in office as a councillor and later as a mayor, based on National Post archived images.
The rapper and hip-hop artist’s jacket has decorative embroidery on the sleeves, whereas Ford’s had a patch reading “Coach” on the right and the “02” on the left.
Drake’s also has a shorter collar and uses a more modern font for the name.
Some Facebook users wondered by Drake wasn’t wearing something to support the team on the field.
“What’s with that bloody jacket? It’s the Blue Jays game. You should have worn a Blue Jay shirt instead,”
“Where’s your Blue Jays Jacket Drake… aren’t you a Canadian cheering for a Canadian Team,” Laura Hunter asked in reply to a Toronto Blue Jays post.
On X, Barstool Sports host
, “No matter what you think of Drake, rocking the Rob Ford varsity jacket in Toronto for the WS is a legendary move.”
Drake is in the building 🇨🇦 #WANTITALL pic.twitter.com/6ZkKGPz5vP
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) October 25, 2025
Ford coached the Eagles to a Toronto District Catholic Athletic Association title in 2012, but lost in the subsequent Metro Bowl final to decide GTA high school football supremacy.
His time at the Eagles’ helm ended unceremoniously the following year when he was fired by the board over allegations of egregiously improper behaviour, some of which was detailed in 300 pages of documents disclosed through a freedom of information request.
As reported by
at the time, Ford allegedly ordered teenage players to roll in goose scat, called them derogatory terms, challenged a co-coach to a fight and arrived at a practice for the 2012 Metro Bowl Championship Game while inebriated.
The allegations came at a fraught time in Ford’s personal and political life, brought on by substance abuse, to which he would later admit and begin treatment to resolve. He abandoned another run for mayor in 2014 after a stomach cancer diagnosis and won a seat on council instead.
Ford died on March 22, 2016, after chemotherapy was ineffective.
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