When the Eastern and Western CFL finals ended Sunday, two teams not accustomed to losing found they are not going to Toronto for the Grey Cup, unless they buy tickets and sit in the stands.
Losing is not easy. In the film "Moneyball", Brad Pitt, playing Oakland As general manager Billy Beane, says, "I hate losing more than I like winning."
Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers, claimed his team never lost a game: "We just ran out of time."
On November 25, when the one-hundredth Grey Cup game is played at Rogers Stadium, which team will go home euphoric and which dejected?
Stay tuned.
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Tragic, though, fellow Saskatchewanian, that the Riders couldn't hang on to a lead for the last 30 seconds, and be the ones to bounce the Lions, gaining a Grey Cup berth.
ReplyDeleteNow, Saskatchewan at Toronto - THAT would be an appropriate classic, seeing as how the Riders have existed for two years longer than the Grey Cup.
Ah, well - I'll make do with the fond memory of 1966 at Empire Stadium, (Section W, Row 33, seats 19 and 20), when the Green Riders finally captured their first Coupe Grey against Ottawa, a 29-14 trouncing of the Dear Departed Riders.