Edmonton QB Mike Reilly named most valuable player of 103rd Grey Cup

For Henry Burris and Mike Reilly, it’s time to play the 103rd Grey Cup. “This isn’t it. We’ll be back and we will get it done”. “It’s things that don’t happen every often, especially the way things played out for me this year – I definitely didn’t expect to be in this game”. “I’ve never been here”.

“After two, three weeks I started wondering what I was going to do with my life”, he said Saturday.

“It’s not anger, it’s disappointment”, Ottawa coach Rick Campbell said. Winnipeg native Don Oramasionwu will play today on the defensive line, fellow D-lineman 46-man roster, running back Chad Simpson will come out. “He’s winding down now”.

There now are six players from Boise State and five from Idaho in the league.

The game was a disappointment for Redblacks fans who thought their team might be crowned champions at the end of their second season. Milo missed the convert.

It’s the Eskimos 14th Grey Cup title and first since 2005.

“That’s just part of football”, he said. This was Edmonton’s record-setting 25th appearance at the big game (Only Toronto (16) has won more). The 24-year-old Hamilton native was the very last player selected in the 2014 CFL college draft, 65th overall, and he was then rehabilitating an injured knee that kept him off the field until late in the subsequent Canadian university football season.

Even still, “I even brought my wheelbarrow to bring back that Grey Cup home to Ottawa”, he said. “It’s just time to get on the field now and put it all to work now”.

Make sure to pick up Monday’s Sun for the most comprehensive Grey Cup coverage in the country. He learned a few hours later that they would face the Eskimos, 44-31 victors against the Stampeders in the West final. The Redblacks are a younger franchise, added as an expansion team last season. “I feel like Manitoba and Winnipeg is actually the friendliest place we’ve ever been”.

“No, I love playing for the Redblacks, I love playing for the city of Ottawa”. “And all the equipment guys are saying they are bad”. The REDBLACKS boast four 1,000 receivers in Chris Williams (1,214), Greg Ellingson (1,061), Ernest Jackson (1,036), and Brad Sinopoli (1,035).

“We had opportunities to turn the tide and we just didn’t make the plays, whether it was me missing a throw or making a play or something”, Burris said.

“If I’m in a bar, I’m going to watch”. You have to have confidence.

A sellout gathering of 36,634 will attend Sunday’s game.