Late Night CBC is where the passionate CFL fan will want to be all this week, as the CBC celebrates some of the great Grey Cup games of years gone by.
They started off their nightly look at those Grey Cup moments on Monday night, with the 1954 Classic between Montreal and Edmonton, which saw the Eskimos begin a trend that they would become very good at, winning a Grey Cup game. The 1954 game featured some of the legends of Canadian football, Sam Etcheverry, Chuck Hunsinger, Bernie Faloney and Normie Kwong, it would also introduce a young man from the Deep south who would go on to redefine the Canadian Game, the late Jackie Parker.
Tuesday Night they present the 1968 Grey Cup match up of the Stampeders and the Ottawa Rough Riders, a showdown between Peter Liske and Russ Jackson, two of the pre-eminent CFL quarterbacks of the era.
The games continue on through the week each night at midnight on your local CBC station. Saturday afternoon (morning on the west coast) the CBC replays last years Grey Cup game between Montreal and Edmonton (Edmonton fans may wish to tune in to remember the feeling)
The games are a homage to the great moments that the CFL has offered up to Canadians over its 94 years of Grey Cup showdowns, many of them nail biting finales that leave one side of the country in agony while the other celebrates into the wee hours of the morning.
They make for a great way to get into that Grey Cup spirit!
Thursday, November 16, BC and Winnipeg 1988
Wednesday, November 15, Saskatchewan and Hamilton at Hamilton 1972
Tuesday, November 14, Ottawa and Calgary at Toronto 1968
Monday, November 13, Montreal and Edmonton at Toronto 1954
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