Eskimos win Grey Cup championship after overcoming slow start

“If you’re looking for me to say, ‘Yes, we’re going to win, ‘ like I told you last week, if you ask me that question, I’m not going to say no. I’m not going to say, ‘No, we are not going to win.’ You have to believe you’re going to win”.

Both the Ottawa RedBlacks and the Edmonton Eskimos took their final walkthrough on Saturday at Investors Group Field. They scored on the opening drive of the game, then got the ball right back when Kendial Lawrence fumbled the ensuing kick off. Ottawa followed up with another major but missed the extra point.

The team balls are tested prior to the game to ensure they meet “a new ball standard”, according to Johnson. A Whyte convert made it 13-10, Ottawa, and that’s how the first quarter wrapped up. He also had an interception and is now 1-2 in Grey Cup starts.

In what’s probably the most Canadian sentence I will ever write, the Edmonton Eskimos have successfully lobbied the Canadian Football League to restrict the Ottawa Redblacks from bringing along the loggersports team that traditionally saws off a celebratory log slice after touchdowns. “Once we got the lead he senses the game is in his control”.

Everyone who knows the Eskimos history had to be thinking back to 1981 Grey Cup after Ottawa jumped out to a 13-0 lead after only six minutes and nine seconds as Redblacks quarterback Henry Burris threw touchdown passes of three yards to Patrick Lavoie and seven yards to Ernest Jackson.

Redblacks’ quarterback Henry Burris was the CFL’s outstanding player with a CFL-record 481 completions and league-leading 5,703 yards. “It wouldn’t matter if we went out and played nine hole golf or putt-put golf or soccer or whatever he’s playing he’s going to try and beat you”.

“Kudos to Edmonton. They made plays and we didn’t and that’s the reason why they won the game”. Ottawa was up 19-18 after three. Akeem Shavers will remain as the starting running back, Shakir Bell remains out with an ankle injury. It was only the third field goal Whyte has missed in 31 attempts with the Eskimos.

The Algonquin Loggersports Team traditionally slices a “wood cookie” off a log in the west endzone at Ottawa’s TD Place to mark a Redblacks touchdown.

Reilly was named the MVP of the game, going 21/35 for 269 yards and two touchdowns through the air.

A 41-yard pass interference penalty set up the next Ottawa points, another 33-yard Milo field goal, while Edmonton put up a punt single.

Following Whyte’s 24-yard field goal at 9:14, Reilly hit Bowman with a 23-yard touchdown pass 12:41.