It’s Grey Cup Sunday!
The Grey Cup is back in Toronto this year as the finals are going to be taking place in just a few hours.
For those of you that are not familiar with the Grey Cup, it is the trophy awarded annually to the champion of the Canadian Football League. The CFL has been around for decades and the Grey Cup almost as long and while Canada may not be thought of as a nation that has a lot of football fans, a quick trip to the Rogers Centre for the Grey Cup final will show you just how seriously CFL fans take their sport.
Considering that the Grey Cup is taking place this year inside the Rogers Centre in Toronto, it would have been nice if the Toronto Argonauts had managed to make it to the finals; such an event would have been cause for great celebration in the city, especially with the recent history of sporting failures that Torontonians have had to endure. However, fate had decided something else and my beloved Argos fell 19-9 to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in last week’s semi-final match. That means that the Grey Cup Final will be between Saskatchewan and Winnipeg in the Rogers Centre. Up to the time of the actual match starting, there will be performances and fun games for the family to play in and around the Rogers Centre and with tickets available to the match for as little as $20, if you are a football fan this is definitely something to consider attending.
More information can be found on the official CFL website or by calling 416-872-5000.
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I wonder if the CFL wil ever be rolled into the NFL, then on to European Exapansion.
I doubt it. Most of the CFL teams and quite possibly all of them would probably fail miserably as NFL franchises.
There was talk earlier about Toronto getting an NFL expansion team that would be wholly separate from the Argos, but as of yet nothing has happened along those lines.