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By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Argos Huddle Up with Post's Corners students recalled the words. "To many people here, those are just words. To me, that was the change. What you have on your shirt: Be The Change -- that was the change because he included me on something I never thought I existed on," he said. That same day, Colero said he was given a jersey and he was starting for the team. "That was the last year that school had a football team, but Mark made me love football again," he said. When football ended at his high school, Colero looked up the word football in the phone book and found a listing for the Toronto Argonauts. He called every day, multiple times, hoping to get a job. "After about 110 calls a week, they finally said, `Hey, alright man, how would you like to work for the visiting team?' I went down there and worked for the Toronto Argonauts; (that was) 27 years ago. The guy in the locker room." Colero also had a message for students, saying they have the power to save someone. He noted that years later, he called that student who had helped him so many years ago. "I called him and said, `I talk about you at every assembly. You see Mark what I've done, I tell people about you because you saved my life,'" he said. Mark replied it was no big deal, said Colero. "`To you it was no big deal,'" he continued to tell Mark, "`to me, you not only saved me, but you saved thousands of kids because that's what I'm talking about today'." 11 · Wednesday, January 25, 2012 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com Members of the Toronto Argonauts football team were at Post's Corners Public School Friday to tell students not to sit by, but to stand up to bullying. Wide receiver Mike Bradwell and community relations manager Jason Colero spoke to a packed gymnasium at a Huddle Up bullying prevention assembly. "When you see bullying happening at your school, if you're being bullied or see someone else being bullied, the most important thing you can do is stand up and say something about it," Bradwell told students, many of whom were clad in pink `Be The Change' T-shirts. "Tell your teachers. Tell your parents. That person who is bullying you, or bullying someone else, might not know they're bullying. It's not always obvious." Bradwell, who just completed his third year with the Argos and the CFL, told students he, like most youths, had a best friend growing up and they played hockey regularly. He said in high school, he joined the school football team and happened to be good at the sport. He said his first encounter with bullying was at recess when he was 10 years old. He said he didn't realize it at the time, but he was the bully. "It was a standard recess for play. We horsed around, pushed each other. Me, being bigger, when I pushed guys they kind of went further and maybe I'd go too far and I pushed too hard. It was all in fun, I thought," he said. At the end of class that day, his teacher called him back and spoke to him about bullying. "I was shocked. I thought I was a good kid. I had never gotten in trouble before," he said. The teacher told him he pushed his best friend who had told him to stop, but he didn't. His parents were then called. His mother took him over to his friend's house and he had to apologize. "It really opened my eyes. When I reflect on the story now, I apologized to Ben, but I really should have thanked him because he made me aware that what I was doing was wrong. He had the courage to stand up and tell someone." His colleague on the Argos, Colero, who is recognizable for his messages against bullying, was the recipient of bullying. ERIC RIEHL / OAKVILLE BEAVER here's the scoop: Post's Corners Public School continued its bullying prevention initiatives with an assembly featuring Toronto Argos members speaking about the Huddle Up program. Here, Mike Bradwell, Argos receiver, speaks to students. Inset, Jason Colero, Argos community relations manager. Colero said he went to a different high school than most of his elementary school friends. He wanted to be on the school's football team. In Grade 9, he was a small guy at 4-foot-11 and weighing 85 pounds. But, at this school to make the team, you just had to sign up, he said. Colero was immediately picked on, not by the whole team, he said, but to him it felt like it. Guys commented on his size, said they didn't need him on the team because they already had a ball, tied his shoes so he would fall and more. On a Friday, after practice, he raced to the lockers so he could get changed before the other guys got there in hopes of avoiding the bullying. His locker was empty and he found his clothes being sprayed with cold water in the shower. He walked home in his cleats and uniform that day. "My feet were aching, but my heart was broken," he said. That weekend he decided he would quit the team and change schools. On the following Monday, he was locked in his locker, but was let out when he made noise. At lunch, two guys asked him to sit with them. When he did, they told the whole cafeteria he would sing O Canada. Instead, he bolted and was chased through the school. He ran to the gym where he found another member of the team, a popular student. That boy told Colero's tormentors to leave him alone. "Leave him alone, he's on my team," Colero