Edmonton Eskimos are the 2015 Grey Cup champions

The Redblacks and Eskimos had not played each other since early July when Edmonton won back-to-back games 46-17 and 23-12.

The Eskimos also finished the season registering their 10th straight win, all coming after Reilly returned as the club’s starter.

Video replay is a slippery slope and to make the game better we need to give control back to the CFL officials and learn to live (again) with an element of human error. Both teams should be very proud of their remarkable seasons; they have taken their fans on a wild ride over the past six months.

“It’s not anger, it’s disappointment”, Ottawa coach Rick Campbell said.

It’s Edmonton’s 14th C-F-L championship but first since 2005.

With or without the DPI call on Sermons, I believe Edmonton was the superior team on Sunday and would have pulled out a victory. The Redblacks of November, on a five-game win streak, were not the same team.

“You could pull tons of positives out of this year”, defensive tackle Keith Shologan said, “but right now all we’re thinking about is we just lost the Grey Cup”.

Receiver Kenny Stafford banged two cans of beer together and shook them as he stood by the door to the Edmonton Eskimos locker-room.

The revival of the Redblacks this season was dramatic but ended one win short. Starting quarterback Mike Reilly then threw a 2-point conversion pass to Akeem Shavers.

So instead of heading into the 2016 season with the hunger of chasing a championship, the Eskimos will have to adopt the mindset of defending champion.

Talbot says today will be the busiest day of Grey Cup week, as fans trickled in over a few days, but are mostly all leaving at the same time.

You don’t hear anyone talking about the obvious hold that occurred on Edmonton’s second offensive touchdown.

The Eskimos will have a celebration in the City of Champions on Tuesday, and then you can expect the Chris Jones situation to be decided quickly.

Order was restored gradually, first with a Sean Whyte 25-yard field goal after a good Edmonton drive stalled, and then when Burris threw a rare lame-duck trying to go deep, Patrick Watkins picked it off to set Reilly up with a 60-yard field.

After failing to win a single coach’s challenge during the Canadian Football League regular season, Edmonton Eskimos head coach Chris Jones had success when it mattered most.

But Jones says he’s not worrying about that now. “This is professional sports, people come and go for sure… but in my mind he’s my head coach”.

The pre-video-replay era wasn’t without flaws, but I can understand human error. I’ll fight to the death for that man and everyone in that locker-room will to.