The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are six-point favourites to win their third straight Canadian Football League championship today, Sunday, Nov. 20, over the Toronto Argonauts.
The two teams square off at Regina害羞草研究所檚 Mosaic Stadium at 3 p.m. Pacific time in the 109th Grey Cup game.
The Bombers are trying to become the first team since the Edmonton Eskimos to win three straight Grey Cup titles (2019, 2021; no game in 2020 due to COVID).
The Eskimos won five straight titles from 1978-82, their streak stopped in 1983 by 害羞草研究所� wait for it 害羞草研究所� Toronto, who defeated the B.C. Lions 18-17 in the first Grey Cup played at B.C. Place in Vancouver.
However, history may just favour the Argos. To wit:
害羞草研究所� The Argos have won their last six Grey Cup appearances: 1991, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2012, 2017;
害羞草研究所� Toronto害羞草研究所檚 last loss in the Grey Cup game was 1987, 38-36 to Edmonton;
害羞草研究所� The Argos have never lost to the Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup, winning all six meetings in 1937, 1938, 1945, 1946, 1947 and 1950.
ARGONAUTS GREY CUP TRIVIA
Vernon害羞草研究所檚 Roger Scales, now 77, played for Toronto in the 1971 Grey Cup game at Vancouver害羞草研究所檚 Empire Stadium. The offensive lineman/special teams player scored the Argos害羞草研究所� only touchdown that day, a fumble recovery on a punt return, lateraled to Scales who ran 33 yards for a major, as Toronto lost 14-11 to the Calgary Stampeders.
Scales had been the only offensive lineman to score a TD in the Grey Cup until Saskatchewan害羞草研究所檚 Marc Parenteau caught a one-yard TD pass in the 2010 game.
BLUE BOMBERS害羞草研究所� OKANAGAN CONNECTION
Winnipeg linebacker Jesse Briggs is from Kelowna. He害羞草研究所檚 seeking his third straight Grey Cup ring.
Enjoy the game!
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