It's been 21 years since my Winnipeg Blue Bombers won the Canadian Football League championship, hammering the Edmonton Eskimos 50-11 in 1990.
Since then the Bombers have gone 0-4 in the Grey Cup Final losing in consecutive years in 1992-93 and then twice more in 2001 (losing to the 8-10 Calgary Stampeders, a team that was two games under .500 and shouldn't have been in the playoffs. The Bombers should have won this game...handily)and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2007.
To get to the dance this year, they had to endure losing eight out of their last 10 games after starting the season 7-1.
They managed to get the bye in the Eastern Final only due to the Montreal Alouettes losing their last game of the season as they and the Bombers were tied atop the East at 10-8 and although the Bombers also lost their last game, they had won the season series against Montreal 2-1 giving them the division title.
They then defeated the overwhelmed Hamilton Tiger Cats in the East Final to go to this year's Grey Cup championship.
This time the game is at the opponents home field as the Bombers play the BC Lions at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. This is the second time Winnipeg and BC have faced each other in the Grey Cup game. The first was in 1988 in Ottawa. The Bombers won that thriller, 22-21.
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