Tag Archives: Canadian Football League
Heartbreak On Bank Street
I can’t decide if I would have gone to the game if I had been in Ottawa. Playoff football is appealing, but cold. It was sunny in Ottawa yesterday, three degrees Celsius at game time. July is a much better time to be outdoors in a sometimes-windy stadium. Being thousands of miles away on another […]
Kicking Off Grey Cup 2016
The Grey Cup game is being held this evening in Toronto, the annual championship of the Canadian Football League (CFL). I had thought about going, but decided to opt for the pleasures of watching on television instead. Being at a national championship in any sport is special, and I was very tempted to make the […]
Grey Cup 2015
Today is the big day for Canadian football fans, the annual Grey Cup championship game. Unlike our cousins to the south, we don’t get all fancy and use Roman numerals to describe the game. We don’t need to add artificial gravitas to it – our trophy has been around for more than a century, something […]
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