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CFL SEASON STARTS WITH SPARKLES ON CANADA DAY
Jul. 4 | The CFL kicked off the 2010 season on Canada Day with a rematch of last years Grey Cup final between Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders. And it wasn’t without pure and raw excitement. The game was showered with end to end action culminating...
NEW ORLEANS IS NO LONGER SINKING
Feb. 14 | By Alex Saints, pick any of your choice, weren’t exactly keeping an eye out for its football club over the years. Even they, it seems, felt powerless to help a hapless organization moving along in a haze. In 1980, following 14 straight losses ...
SAINTS AND COLTS REACH SUPER BOWL
Jan. 25 | The Vikings came, saw, but they could not pillage and conquer N’Orleans. Instead, they came, they fumbled and squandered a great chance to get to the Super Bowl for the 5th time in their history. For their part, the New Orleans Saints merely picked...
Alouettes Win Grey Cup In Dramatic Fashion
Nov. 30 | That was some ending to the 97th Grey Cup, eh? Heck, it was so crazy it even got a mention on ESPN’S Around the Horn. A record six million viewers on TSN/RDS clicked in to catch the game and they were treated to a great football battle. The Montreal...
The Alouettes And Roughriders Meet In Grey Cup
Nov. 25 | The CFL has confirmed its final two guests for the 97th Grey Cup. The 16-3 Montreal Alouettes will take on the 11-7-1 Saskatchewan Roughriders at McMahon Stadium in Calgary (Hi Lina). Both teams took advantage of the home field edge they earned as the...
Did The Better Team Win?
Sep. 24 | By Beaker We often hear the question in the title being asked by journalists, pundits and fans alike. It comes whenever a team dominates another but still loses. On Monday night, the Miami Dolphins held ball possession for a stunning 45 minutes while...
Stats Corner: Forgotten Stampeders Were Perfect In 1948
Sep. 22 | A couple of years back, the New England Patriots came within whiskers of becoming the second team in NFL history to go undefeated after the ’72 Miami Dolphins. The Pats from Boston had to settle for going 18-1 with their only loss coming where it...
Alouettes Great QB Sam Etcheverry Dies
Sep. 13 | Etcheverry celebrates 1970 Grey Cup victory Sam “The Rifle” Etcheverry, who wasn’t just a-very good quarterback but a great one with the Montreal Alouettes, died of cancer in late August at the age of 79. Born in New Mexico and of Basque...
Quick Tidbits: CFL Says No To Pac Man; Heatley Still In Limbo; Alouettes Suck Out West
Sep. 5 | By Beaker My how they fall. You know you’ve hit rock bottom when the CFL – once home to Lawrence Phillips and Ricky Williams – decide you’re bad news enough to not be signed. That was the case when the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, upon...
