Grey Cup teams to use their own balls on offence

Allowing teams to use their own balls on offence gives quarterbacks a chance to play with balls that are familiar to them, as long as they meet standards.

The bears have spoken, predicting the Edmonton Eskimos will with the 103 Grey Cup this Sunday in a ceremony at the Assiniboine Park Zoo.

How can you tune into Sunday’s Grey Cup?

And though the league originally said it would make an exception for the loggers, the decision was later reversed.

Those balls remain under the control of league officials once they take possession of them before the match.

In past games, the loggers have marked touchdowns by slicing a “wood cookie” off a log beside the playing field, sending up a shower of sawdust into the air.

The Loggersports team and their chainsaws have been set up at every home game for the past two years.

It came as a shock to the chainsaw crew who received the news while waiting to board their flight to Winnipeg.

The plaid-clad Algonquin College loggersports team, based out of the school’s Pembroke campus, participates in intercollegiate lumberjack skills competitions. “Why won’t they let us do our celebrations?” one man told CTV Ottawa.

The decision did not seem to rattle Redblacks fans in Ottawa – too excited for the big game. “We’ll just kind of have to adapt”, he said.

The Loggersports team said they would still be at the game to cheer on the Redblacks.