In the end, it was a seven-play drive that took the Eskimos 78 yards to pay dirt and the Cup – the first Grey Cup championship for Edmonton in 10 years. Super Bowl XLIX featured a Visual Sports’ simulator that generated high traffic and a simulator also engages fans at home games of Super Bowl Champion, New England Patriots. “You can’t win the second and third until you win the first and now we’ve done that”.
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Chambers had 49 receiving yards, including a 32-yard reception to help set up a touchdown, as the Eskimos beat the Ottawa Redblacks 26-20 in the CFL championship game.
“The whole game was tense”, said Eskies’ fan, Steve who flew in from Edmonton for the big game.
But the 2015 campaign was a tale of two seasons for the Eskimos.
An Ottawa CFL team hadn’t been to the CFL title game since 1981, when the Rough Riders lost 26-23 to the Eskimos.
Before the end of the first quarter though, Edmonton and former Lions quarterback Mike Reilly would claw out of the hole first with a field goal followed up with a 22-yard strike to Adarius Bowman to cut the deficit to 13-10. The first is a quarterback challenge in which they’ll have to complete touchdown passes, with the second enabling fans to experience one of football’s greatest moments – kicking the game-winning field goal. “That’s a great team in here, and I don’t know if I’m going to experience that kind of team professionally one more time, and that’s hard”.
TSN reports Jones is Saskatchewan’s top choice to be its general manager and head coach.
“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. “We’re going to soak this all up”.
“It’s not about what I’ve been through personally, it’s what our team has been through”, Reilly said.
Speaking of free agents, the Eskimos and RedBlacks both have almost two dozen players who could sign with other teams on or after February 9.
Barely selling out the least attended Grey Cup in almost two decades probably doesn’t qualify as the “best ever”, but those who came to Winnipeg expecting to have a good time appeared to have just that. “I don’t think people practice like we do”.
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Edmonton was supposed to win this game, given the Eskimos’ 4-0 record in the teams’ meetings since the Redblacks entered the league, outscoring Burris and Co.to 69-29 in their wins this season – and the Esks didn’t have Reilly for either of those games. Stafford argued with Edmonton head coach Chris Jones, begging him to throw the challenge flag, and finally Jones called time out.
