It's the first time the Vanier Cup will be hosted outside of Ontario.
Ontario and British Columbia may be wastelands for university football where big crowds are measured in the 100s, but the same can't be said for the Prairies, the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec.Tomorrow, The Score will be broadcasting the Vanier Cup from Saskatoon -- a game that will see the Saskatchewan Huskies take on Laval Rouge et Or.
It should be an interesting take on how many in the rest of Canada will tune in. Kickoff is at 2 p.m.
They picked a good weekend for it!
Saturday: Sunny with cloudy periods. Increasing cloudiness late in the day with 60 percent chance of flurries in the evening. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h late in the day. High minus 21. Wind chill minus 36.
Gives new meaning to "kicking into the wind".
When the Huskies scored a come-from-behind upset in the Mitchell Bowl to make it to the home field final, another 760 tickets went on sale to Griffiths Stadium. They reportedly sold in around 5 minutes.
Previous: The teams faced off on the same field at last year's Mitchell Bowl
Update A tipster in the comments advises you can access the Vanier webcast here.
Isn't it nice to have one team in green that consistantly excels?
Go Dawgs!
Go Dinos!! Tee Hee ;-)
You'd better be there and painted in green, Kate.
Every large football game in Saskatchewan has to be held with a temperature no better than -20.
Laval's fielding a good team this year, and we aren't fielding the best team we ever have. Anyway, Go Dawgs!
Finally some decent football weather in my hometown!
Go Huskies!!!
Vanier Stadium was such a great place to watch a game.
Go green! What a match up, this will be a helluva game.
Now that's what I call FOOTBALL WEATHER.........
Hot chocolate instead of gator aide.
Huskies, Huskies, rah,rah,
When you go to these games you bring a 'mickey' with you and a lot of hand warmers.
Jim Dinning is the old party. If he is elected it will be another Getty disaster . This Party needs a complete change. Its old wing has exhausted any ideas or a vision for Alberta's future. It is out of steam & needs an overhaul. As well, loose some bad connections.
The fact we have had virtually no Government for a few years now, should be warning enough. For the inaction that awaits us if this becomes a reality. To stay away from putrefying big government, Red Tories. Which Dinning is. Already certain scandles are bubbling forth. Instead of a broom , they need a Bobcat.
Ted Morton , on the other hand was never a part of the old hands. He was handily elected as a Senator. His personal history & education is impressive, to say the least. One of the biggest selling points though, is he's not stuck in the Boomer mindset of the sixties. He thinks more like a 21rst Century man, than a middle 20th century political mandarin.
He is a Harper incrimentalist. As a signatory to the firewall letter. As was the PMSH. I think in this time, we need a man who will stand up to Ottawa if Toronto engineers the Liberal crooks return to power & perennial poverty for this Nation.
The rape of any productive Province, but Ontario. You know all the sundry evils of the swag grabbing Liberano's. Only magnified by the square root, with voting confirmation of Canadian stupidity.
If the worst happens, it will be good to have a man of convictions standing for our Provincial rights.
The absolute reason for my choice. Is his pledge to reform our provincial democracy . Things like recall, maybe elected lower judges & the like. With referendums & perhaps having a upper house by cutting the lower one, to offset Rural Urban rivalry. Triple E of course.
As the old saying goes. Stock up while the fields are bountiful in there years, for surly a drought will come. Unless this party changes it will die hard & fast as all Albertan ones do. When losing touch with the populace.
We need honesty coupled to a democratic reform. Not business as usual.
Just my opinion, before I read the other comments.
sorry wrong post. My appologies.
high of -21 with windchill? -21 is ok, that wind is always a killer though
Did we (rouge et or) win??
I'm in Vietnam and I only get Canadian news from SDA. (By choice, not necessity)
As a Quebecer (pas quebecois), I must go for the R&O, the most exciting team in Canadian college football.
Very cold & high windchill - perhaps the idea of "weather injustice" isn't wrong - they just point to the wrong geographical area of the world as an example.
Go Green!
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Vanier Cup to be webcast
SASKATOON (CIS) - CIS football fans who can not tune in to The Score or RDS on Saturday will be able to watch the PotashCorp Vanier Cup through universitysport.ca
To launch the webcast, courtesy of The Score Televison Network, ...