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Another Roughrider Goes Home Disappointed

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:15:04 EST

The Saskatchewan Roughriders are not sticking the Grey Cup anywhere after last night's last-second defeat in the CFL championship. It's going to be a long winter up there.

It was a heart-breaker for Saskatchewan, who blew at 16-point fourth quarter lead, then got called for a penalty when Montreal missed the game-winning field goal as time expired. Too many men on the field. GAhahhh! They moved the spot 10 yards closer—Canadian yards, even!—and the Alouettes won the Cup in the most dramatic fashion possible. That one will sting.

Of course, as you are well aware, Montreal is the Buffalo of Canadian football—having lost four of the last seven Grey Cup finals—so you have to feel good for them. If you're a fan of Regina, however, I suppose you're just going to have make do with booze and porn. Just like every other weekend.

CFL.ca - Official Site of the Canadian Football League [CFL]
[Picture via the fine folks at Kurtenblog]

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Hope you enjoyed the long holiday weekend. Mine was ... what's the opposite of rejuvenating? I now need a vacation from my holidays.

Alouettes! Roughriders! It's the 97th Grey Cup!

Barry Petchesky — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:15:00 EST

The battle for the CFL championship kicks off in a few minutes (I think they have kickoffs), and we'll soon know once and for all which is the greatest football city on earth: Montreal or Regina. [CFL]

Below-Freezing Wind Chill Not Enough To Deter Grey Cup Revelers

Weed Against Speed — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:10:39 EST

An "ice hazard" and wind chills dipping to four-below-zero didn't stop thousands of Canadians from turning out to attend today's Grey Cup parade in Calgary. The fact that Elisha Cuthbert was Grand Marshal probably didn't hurt attendance. [TSN]

Ricky Williams Has Had Just About Enough Of Canada, Thanks

Leitch — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:30:59 EST

For those of you not up on your Grey Cup, the East semifinals are this weekend, featuring the Winnipeg Blue Bombers against the Toronto Argonauts and our old friend Ricky Williams. During a practice interview — the interview was real, but it was after practice, if you'll forgive our somewhat misplaced modifier — Williams was asked typical dumb "can you step it up for the playoffs?" questions by a TV reporter, and Williams, doing a poor job of hiding the fact that he could give two shits about the freaking Canadian playoffs, went off a little bit.

When it was pointed out that it will be his first playoff appearance since he was a New Orleans Saint, Williams clearly was irked. "Who cares what happened seven years ago?" the NFL star said, his voice rising.

It's all in the name of a story, the reporter replied.

"Well that's a horrible story," countered the man whose next loss will be his last as an Argo. "What does it matter that I was hurt seven years ago? Me today has nothing to do with me breaking my ankle seven years ago."

You can see the video here. It's not a historic blowup, but it is entertaining to watch, if just because it's impossible to ascertain which person is being more of an idiot, which one is making a good point and which one is just being a jerk. Hey, in an exchange like this, we're all winners. Though that Toronto media can be pretty brutal.

Ricky Williams Video [Sportsnet]

Hot Canadian Football Action

Leitch — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:25:27 EST

Last weekend's CFL Grey Cup might have been an amazing game ... but you should have seen what was going on in the stands! A Vancouver reader who was there writes us:

As these pics will attest, it turns out not all of the 60,000 fans watching the Grey Cup spent the whole game politely clapping and sipping flat, warm draught beer. A couple of "dancers" in front of me were doing every thing and anything possible to get put up on the Jumbotron. We're talking bumping, grinding, flashing, french kissing, light petting. This put all the men around them in quite a quandary; hot, nubile pseudo-lesbians, or three-down football played on a field the size of Delaware ... what to watch?

Well, some puritan devil helped them make the decision and alerted security. I'm sure this poor guy (making at most $9.00 an hour) could feel the glares of a thousand horny drunk guys burning into his back as he told the girls to tone it down. The irony is, he took the job so he could beat up on those exact same drunk guys.

And you thought all Canada had to offer was socialized medicine, Molson's and Michael J. Fox.

Greatest Football Game Ever? [Off Wing Opinion]