The sold out crowd of 36,634 witnessed the Edmonton Eskimos defeat the Ottawa Redblacks 26-20 for their 14th Grey Cup Sunday evening.
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But after days of friendly trash talk and high hopes, Edmonton Eskimo fans left the CFL’s championship game with bragging rights as they beat the Ottawa Redblacks in a nail-biting game by a score of 26-20.
He also connected with Akeem Shavers for a two-point convert on the game-winning touchdown.
The lead was five, after a missed field goal by Whyte and a Milo kick from 26 yards, but Reilly took the Eskimos from their own 21 to the endzone with the half’s final possession, using all but the last 12 seconds before hitting an uncovered Shavers from three yards out, the second time in three plays the Edmonton running back had been left utterly alone.
14 – The number of Grey Cups for the Eskimos franchise, and first since 2005. And then there’s Jones, who the Saskatchewan Roughriders are reportedly interested in speaking to regarding their vacant head coach/GM positions.
“We’ll celebrate it, recoup for a couple of months but then the work gets that much harder because we’re not built to do this once”, Reilly said.
“All that stuff will handle itself”.
If only the Grey Cup had happened tonight.
Grymes said the team was confident heading into the fourth quarter despite trailing thanks to their final-frame success this year.
Dressed in team colours with a bright, fuzzy red-haired toque, Maisonneuve said they have loved every minute of the party.
“They were coming after us pretty good”.
Thankfully, this time around the video replay got it “right”, but for my money (and my time!) I’d prefer to have the officials make the judgment calls on the field in real time and reserve the video replays for the big screens in the end zones.
The 40-year-old Burris was 22 of 29 for 220 yards. That’s tough to say, that this might be the last time we see each other maybe, and we finished like that, losing the Grey Cup.
Following a half-time performance by the band Fall Out Boy, Edmonton took the ball to start the second half after deferring to open the game.
The Eskimos, who extended their longest winning streak since 1982 to 10 games, once again outscored their opponents in the fourth quarter.
The Algonquin Loggersports Team traditionally slices a “wood cookie” off a log in the west endzone at Ottawa’s TD Place to mark a Redblacks touchdown. Whyte missed a 44-yarder for a single shortly after. After a series of momentum shifts, the Esks had a 17-16 lead at the break. “If they scored again I might have but it was one of those deals we’ve been in that situation before”. Head coach Chris Jones even brought his two daughters, Jackson, 13, and Austin, 10, up on the dais with him for post-game interviews.
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“Yeah, I don’t think I woke up this morning doing my workout at about 5 a.m. thinking, ‘Man, I hope we’re down 13-0.’ That’s not how we planned it”.
