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Seasons of Loss (Or, How to Reference Broadway Theatre in a Football Piece)

Andrew Harris rushed for 118 yards and caught a few passes for 57 yards more, while Manny Arseneaux led the team with 75 yards reception. They combined for three TDs in a 26-23 comeback win over the Edmonton Eskimos. CP photo lifted from the Province Sports website.
Andrew Harris rushed for 118 yards and caught a few passes for 57 yards more, while Manny Arceneaux led the team with 75 yards reception. They combined for three TDs in a 26-23 comeback win over the Edmonton Eskimos, and did so seven minutes after Erin Jeffery & Kid left the building. CP photo lifted from the Province Sports website.

This past Friday I was at the Lions game with the kid. As games go, it wasn’t our best. The defence was kind of sleepy and the offence seemed to be hurling themselves at the Eskimos like lemmings over a cliff.  There were moments of brilliance, but sadly more moments of ‘arrrrrgh’. Sure, Arceneaux scored a spectacular TD, but Jennings got hammered with his short yardage attempt. Harris was dependable, but Lulay just wasn’t finding his receivers. So with seven minutes left, Lions down by five, I looked at my 5 11/12-year-old, our 35-minute ride home, and his 7am wake up the next day and thought, “Well… This game is over… Crazy P has sung… It’s time to head”. The kid was sad, because he wanted to see the Lions win.  His Lions win.  But I made a choice.

Don’t say it. Just. Don’t. Say. It.

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BC Lions to host 2014 Grey Cup

BC Lions quarterback Travis Lulay was named the MVP of the 2011 Grey Cup in a 34-23 home win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. CP Image ripped ungraciously from the interweb.
BC Lions quarterback Travis Lulay was named the MVP of the 2011 Grey Cup in a 34-23 home win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. CP Image ripped ungraciously from the interweb.

The BC Lions have defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup 20-14.

No, wait, I read that press release wrong. Let me try again.

The BC Lions will host the Grey Cup in 2014, a game the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were supposed to host. Construction delays in Winnipeg have delayed the Blue Bombers move to the new Investors Group Stadium, and the club doesn’t want to chance hosting the big dance without significant time to work out the bugs in the new building. It’s the second time in four years that BC Place will be home to the CFL’s biggest game.

What the Slurpee Capital of the World loses, the City of Vancouver reaps. (That’s how the saying goes, isn’t it?) YVR will receive all the financial perqs that go along with the Grey Cup party, including street parties, hotel bookings and restaurant lineups. Of course, VanCity hosted in 2011 after Hamilton’s Ivor Wynne Stadium was deemed no longer fit for human consumption, and saw their hometown Leos win their sixth championship with a 34-23 win over — you guessed it — the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

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