Grey Cup kickers happy to be back playing

The scoring screeched to a halt in the second quarter as a Redblacks field goal and an Eskimos single put the game at 16-11 in the final minutes.

The heralded Edmonton defence is influenced by head coach and defensive guru Chris Jones and led up front by one of the most outgoing characters in the league, defensive end Odell Willis. “If we play the way we should, I’ll just be kicking PATs (points after touchdowns)”.

Reilly hit Nate Coehoorn at the one-yard line, and third string quarterback Jordan Lynch plunged in from a yard out to put the Eskimos up for good.

“I was one of those guys out partying all week and I kind of lost focus of why I was really here and I’m trying not to let that happen again, but I don’t plan on leaving here without the trophy”, said Willis this week.

The Ottawa Redblacks were denied their touchdown celebrations for the 103rd Grey Cup.

“We’ve been here for long enough, we’re ready to get on the field and get this thing started”, he said.

Ottawa head coach Rick Campbell said he wasn’t angered by the officials’ call.

American rockers Fall Out Boy were your half time entertainment in what was a refreshingly enjoyable show for CFL Grey Cup standards.

“Kudos to Edmonton. They made plays and we didn’t and that’s the reason why they won the game”.

Leave it to the kickers to kick up a fuss on the eve of the Grey Cup.

First the Redblacks coach quipped his 40-year-old quarterback will play another 10 years before giving Burris a shout-out for singing a verse from Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire”.

“So it’s not like we take them out of the box”, he told The Canadian Press.

“I think it’s probably due to the fact that people are probably cheering against Edmonton as much as it is for the Redblacks”, he laughed.

Adarius Bowman has the league in receiving yards for two years running – tallying 1,346 this year.

Reilly’s two-yard TD strike to Shavers at 14:48 of the second gave Edmonton a 17-16 half-time lead. A punt single from Ottawa made it 20-18 with nine minutes to go in the game. Then Burris found Jackson on a seven-yard touchdown toss set up by Domaso Munoz’s recovery of Kendial Lawrence’s fumble on the ensuing kickoff. Whyte booted a convert, single and field goal while Grant Shaw added another single.

Edmonton’s Sean Whyte and Ottawa’s Chris Milo are in the Grey Cup after being released by their original teams. The Canadian field of play is 110 yards long by 65 yards wide rather than 100 yards long by 60 feet wide as in American football.