Jordan Lynch Scores Game-Winning Touchdown in Grey Cup

“They made plays and we didn’t and that’s the reason why they won the game”, said downcast Ottawa quarterback Henry Burris.

Edmonton kicker Sean Whyte, who joined the team in September after nearly retiring, missed a 45-yard field goal and hit the upright on a 35-yard attempt.

Edmonton crawled back from an early 13-0 deficit to take a 17-16 lead into halftime. I’m so happy to be on this team ’cause they have my back.

Ottawa regained the lead in the third on Chris Milo’s 33-yard field goal.

Edmonton’s winning five-play, 78-drive was aided by Eskimos coach Chris Jones’ successful challenge of an incompletion that was changed to pass interference against Ottawa’s Brandon Sermons.

Ottawa was in black helmets but the Eskimos were the ones wearing black hats after Edmonton club president Len Rhodes complained to the league in advance about the Redblacks’ signature lumberjacks who for two seasons have chainsawed a logoed “cookie” off a log after every scoring play. Regular-season audiences for the CFL have been declining in recent years; they were down 15 per cent on average for the 2015 season, to about 600,000 viewers per game. So let’s throw the challenge flag and go back to review that play, right? Edmonton receiver Kenny Stafford (the nephew of Minnesota Vikings Hall of Famer Cris Carter) was obviously interfered with at the Ottawa 10-yard line. “Like Coach Jones always says, there’s going to be some ups and downs, and it showed throughout the whole game”. “The first one was uncatchable”. They turned things around there, though, allowing just a punt single and then driving for the game-winning touchdown and a two-point conversion with just 3:39 left.

Two plays later, the ball was in the end zone and the Eskimos, playing in their record 25th Grey Cup, won it for the 14th time, 26-20.

Shamawd Chambers was honoured to haul in the Most Outstanding Canadian player award in Sunday’s Grey Cup.

“The fact that almost one in every three Canadians watched some part of the Grey Cup, speaks to the strength and importance of the CFL and the Grey Cup to our country”, said Jeffrey L. Orridge, CFL Commissioner.

Jordan Lynch ran for a one-yard touchdown with 3:22 remaining Sunday to give the Edmonton Eskimos a 26-20 victory over the Ottawa RedBlacks in the 103rd Grey Cup. He also carried 10 times for 66 yards and the game-winning touchdown. “For them to come up and get to see us win a championship and be involved in it, that’s what it means to me”.

The unfortunate truth, however, is that many Redblacks won’t be back to make another Grey Cup bid in what will be the franchise’s third CFL campaign. “We play for one another and that’s why we came out on top”.

Reilly said he met “some unbelievable fans from all the teams” at the Grey Cup in Winnipeg.