The Grey Cup

CFL 31 Comments

Stampeders vs. The Argonauts.
I’m battling the flu, so I’ll just say I’m cheering for the Argos, but I think Calgary will take it.

31 Replies to “The Grey Cup”

  1. Battling the flu, Lance. My advice to you is to take lots of fluids.
    Go Arrrrgos.
    The Stamps will find a way to soil the sheets again. Think about it…last year in Toronto they screwed the pooch in OT to Ottawa. This year the Stamps are playing the Arrrrgos, where? In Ottawa.
    Another chance to ease the pain of poor Leon McQuay, which was also the first time I ever saw my Dad cry.

  2. The flu is God’s way of punishing you for backing an Ontario sports team,and even worse ,one from Toronto,the city from which all bad things in Canada emanate.
    Calgary shitkickers: 31
    Toronto Gay Priders: 17

  3. It’s also the 40th anniversary less a day of the infamous “ice bowl” Grey Cup.
    It was held that year in the Olympic stadium in Montreal and it was between the Alouettes and the Eskimos. As I remember, it had snowed the night before but the field wasn’t adequately covered or had been covered after it started. The result was that the field was icy.
    The Montreal team put staples in their shoes while the Edmonton players didn’t. The result was a rather lop-sided game as the Esks were slipping and sliding all over the place.
    As one would expect, some people were outraged not so much at the loss but the fact that Montreal had a distinct advantage over Edmonton in that game. The CFL let the results stand anyway.
    In football, as in many things, there’s always next year and the two teams met again in the 1978 Grey Cup. Many Eskimo fans, of which I was one at the time, thought that Edmonton’s winning was a proper revenge.

  5. Just drove in from Okotoks & checked the tube.
    Nice weather in Ottywah! Yuck!
    Plus 14 C right now in Calgary, with the sun still over the horizon.

  6. I agree! I tuned in only to hear that crap, wondering who the genius was that thought that was a good idea. Then I saw it was sponsored by Sirius XM. That explained everything.

  7. I hate both these teams. I hate Brian Williams sucking off Trudeau prior to the game. I hate our our know it all Governor General and her lack of knowledge on how to flip a coin I hate this politically correct Native announcement introduction. I hate these clowns doing the worst rendition of the National Anthem I’ve EVER heard.

  9. Yeah, too bad politics had to rear it’s head but that’s the tradition. When they showed the clip of Trudeau and his brothers with his Dad Pierre, Justin was asked who would win…Williams then said it looked like he knew what he was talking about back then, Trudeau’s reply was he didn’t know what he was talking about…same applies today, he has no clue what he’s talking about. Sadly he is our Prime Minister, at least in name. It’s not his fault, that lies with people of Canada who elected him and his incompetents.

  10. I thought the music was fine and the cheerleaders were terrific. Looking forward to Shania in a parka.

  13. You’re pretty harsh, Travis. But my sentiments also.
    I watch sports to get out of the crap of the world. But they seem to have embraced every political issue that exists. I was very surprised, however, to hear the public address announcer welcome, “ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls.” He didn’t welcome the ‘vis’, ‘xyzr’, ‘hirs’ and the rest of the new gender pronouns. Next year I guess.

  14. Yeah, its funny that the Governor General knows everything about everything, or so she says, yet she is unable to grasp the simple concept of a coin flip… perhaps she thought the coin would fly away like a butterfly, definitely a WTF? Are we even sure she’s from this planet? The CFL’s head first dive into the crotch of leftist politics has become quite noticeable this season, and tedious. It seems alt leftist dogma has to infect everything these days even when it makes no sense whatsoever (“diversity is strength”) huh? The CFL should change their name to something more Trudopian, like, the First Post National State with No Core Identity League.

  15. Kid turned on at halftime, just because.
    *****Canned applause***** (dreadful) for former star Shania. If it was the states, it would be a travesty. But its Canader, no one notices.

  17. Wow, the last time I saw Shania entertain at a Grey Cup was in Edmonton in 2002. She wore a parka, toque and mitts and was fantastic. This time she came out wearing something hot enough to melt the snow for 20 yards around her and put on a fantastic show again. For the rest of you who are complaining about the opening music and the coin flip, give it a rest. A lot of people put a lot of work into making this a memorable day, and the teams are putting on a good show. Relax, and enjoy the game.

  18. Ditto, the politicization of sports turns me off an innocent entertainment that I can afford to lose. From my younger days as a Dipper, I can imagine the socialists are dancing with glee at having destroyed sports, that they always considered the “opium of the people”.

  19. The only redemption for this Grey Cup is the most arrogant CFL franchise choking on their arrogance for a second year in a row. Cue the canned Shania laughter.

  20. McQuay’s fumble has been fully, completely exorcised.
    Now, if you don’t mind, I’m off to the garage to get blotto.
    G’night

  22. Well,I guess Lance wins the coveted Sylvia Browne Memorial Trophy for 2017!
    Has it occurred to anyone else that,when the game is on the line Bo Levi Mitchell turns in to a dumb sonofabitch that couldn’t win a high school contest?
    Ricky Ray showed again why he is the best last two minutes Q/B in the CFL.Give that guy a tiny,teensy chance and he kicks your ass all over the field.
    Congratulations to Ricky Ray and the Argos for pulling it outta the fire,and Bo Levi,maybe you should consider the Arena Football League.
    This is probably an omen,now the Liberals will win all four of those byelections in December,and Wynne will take the Ontario election next year,and Justin will sweep in with another landlside in ’19,and I’m going to look for a cave to dwell in for the rest of my days.
    Unless I change my mind.

  24. Typical cfl ending. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
    Last week it was the Edmonton Meat Eaters who so deftly demonstrated their ineptitude.

  26. Younger children will be banned from attending Stamps games next season.
    Something to do with the choking hazard.

  27. Wow. Talk about a jaw-dropping turn of events. Calgary totally dominated Toronto except for four plays — and lost! Credit the Argos for never giving up.
    With that win, the Eastern division has won 5 of the last 9 Grey Cups. The West had better get its act together. (And I say that as a Westerner.)

  28. For reference next year: take whatever Lance predicts for CFL games, and bet the other way. 😉

  29. First off. Bo Levi is the reason Calgary lost. That last Calgary play was assinine… 2nd and 5 on the 25 yrd line of the Argos – you are down 3 points – you have 20 seconds left in the game…and you throw a hail Mary…??? Beyond Stupid.
    Take the Field Goal – Tie the Game and see what happens…IOW, give the other 60+ guys on the team a shot at making it a win.
    Nope, Mitchell conceit & arrogance did in the Stamps. (_i_)hole personified.
    Time to turf that character.

  30. My thoughts exactly. I still remember the tears when Leon slipped and fumbled the Cup away.
    All he was supposed to do was get the ball dead centre for the game typing field goal.
    Being a Leafs fan, at the time my teams had never won at anything, and the next day they still hadn’t.
    Joe Carter exorcised that as the last player to touch the ball in the 92 (at first base) and 93 (HR for the ages) Jays’ WS wins.
    I don’t remember being that affected until the Soviets took game one in 1972. Paul Henderson later exorcised that.
    The Stamps have joined the Atlanta Falcons in the esteemed category of incomprehensively seized defeat from the jaws of certain victory.
    The Stamps mirrored the let’s make the NE Patriots the luckiest team in sports, with their Seahawks-esque ill-considered throw/interception.
    Sometimes the greedy get dumb and die. That’s going to leave an big ouch in Stampsland for quite a while. This Seahawks fan empathizes.
    But the Argonauts won, so everything’s good.

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