Stampeders lose leading receiver McDaniel early in Grey Cup vs. Redblacks

The Ottawa Redblacks defeated the Calgary Stampeders 39-33 in overtime to win the 104 Grey Cup. “Did we just score?’ I think little plays like that just showed you that this was our moment”.

Burris, who won his first Cup MVP in 2008 when he led the Stampeders to a 22-14 win over Montreal, completed 35 of 46 attempts, leading his team to the clutch winning drive after the Stampeders tied it in the waning seconds of regulation.

The mayor of Ottawa is inviting football fans in the nation’s capital to line Bank Street on Tuesday at noon in celebration of the Ottawa Redblacks’ dramatic Grey Cup victory. The guy was 100 per cent healthy and he played a great game. 401 rolled to a 20-7 lead over the alleged juggernaut from Calgary. Someone asked about his knee.

She said Toronto had an event that really focuses on the fans and they want to duplicate that.

“Tonight (it feels) not good”, he said. When he walked around to give out hugs, he was limping noticeably. It felt unstable, like it buckled on me.

“We’ll see if he’s available but we have two proven winners here for a reason”, Ottawa coach Rick Campbell said of Burris in an interview with TSN immediately prior to the game. He was given, he said, some “happy pills” to deal with the pain. But the wheels never fell of Burris who led Ottawa to a TD while Mitchell was 0-for-3 in the overtime. And he did a nice job of distributing the ball, using eight different receivers in the game.

Calgary was favoured by double digits after finishing the regular season 15-2-1.

Check, check, and then some.

A first-half runaway nearly turned into a second-half nightmare for quarterback Henry Burris and the Ottawa RedBlacks.

“After our stretches, we always re-group at the middle of the field”. Burris then found Lavoie for a touchdown pass. Ottawa had the 17-7 edge with 6:06 left in the first half.

How much was everything breaking the Redblacks’ way?

Second-and-long, deep in Ottawa territory, Bo Levi Mitchell flung a pass toward Calgary receiver Kamar Jorden.

The final minute of the fourth quarter saw Ottawa defensive back Abdul Kanneh make both the most egregious mistake of the night and one of the best plays of the game.

And on Thursday, five Stampeders were honoured at the CFL awards banquet, including Mitchell, who received the league’s outstanding player honour.

A botched punt return by Stampeder Roy Finch gave Ottawa the ball on the Stampeders side of midfield. “I didn’t even know it was a completed pass, because it hit his hands and all of a sudden I see it bounce and I was thinking, ‘Awww!’ “Then all of a sudden I hear everyone go insane and I was like, ‘Did it just happen?”

In the first half, the Redblacks scored on four of six drives. Mitchell finished the game with 391 yards on 28-of-38 passing with two touchdowns.

Then, Mitchell did force something. That forced Calgary to kick a field goal, which forced overtime. But he also threw three interceptions.

The two teams met back on Sep.

“I felt very confident, even if we went to overtime, I thought we had the momentum”. In the middle there, it was quite a football game.