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The Argonauts defeated the Stampeders 35–22 to win their 16th Grey Cup title. [3] [4] This was the third meeting between Calgary and Toronto for the Grey Cup championship and the first since the 79th Grey Cup in 1991. This was also the second consecutive year that the Grey Cup game involved, and was won by, the team from the host city.
The 78th Grey Cup in 1990 was the last game broadcast by the CFL's league-run syndication broadcast service, the Canadian Football Network, which started in 1987 and was shut down after this game. All CFL playoff and Grey Cup games would be exclusively broadcast on CBC Television starting the next year, continuing until 2007, when TSN gained ...
The 2005 Grey Cup was the second overtime game in Grey Cup history, and the first one using the league's shootout overtime format (introduced in 2000). Both the Eskimos and Alouettes scored touchdowns on their first possessions, while Edmonton scored a field goal in its second and held Montreal scoreless to win the game by a 38–35 score. [ 63 ]
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The Baltimore Stallions were the only American team to appear in the Grey Cup (twice, losing in 1994 and winning the following year). Although the first Grey Cup game was in 1909, none were played from 1916 to 1919 or in 2020, thus the most recent final was the 111th Grey Cup game which was played on November 17, 2024, at BC Place in Vancouver.
Toronto was the site of the 100th Grey Cup as it was also host of the first game and host of the 50th Grey Cup as well. As part of the celebration, the Grey Cup festival stretched over nine days as opposed to the usual three. [13] The Government of Canada also contributed $5 million towards the event in celebration of a Canadian tradition. [14]
Grey Cup championships won: 7 – Bill Stevenson, Hank Ilesic; 6 – Jack Wedley, Joe Krol, Frank Morris, Dave Cutler, Larry Highbaugh, Dave Fennell, Dan Kepley, Hector Pothier, Dale Potter, Tom Towns; Grey Cup games played in: 9 - John Barrow, Tommy Grant, Angelo Mosca, Dave Cutler, Larry Highbaugh, Hank Ilesic
From 1991 until 2007, the CBC had exclusive coverage of all playoff games and the Grey Cup Championship Game. The CFL on CBC ended its run on November 25, 2007, airing the 95th Grey Cup from the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, after which the CFL left broadcast television and signed a six-year contract with cable network TSN. The CFL granted ...