Some Dramatic plays highlight the CFL’s third week.

CALGARY 23, HAMILTON 22

Week three brought some more drama to the fields of the CFL, as the Hamilton Tiger Cats watched as once again Henry Burris did the unimaginable and led the Stampeders down the field at McMahon Stadium to steal away what should have been a Hamilton victory. Greg Marshall could only watch and shake his head as the Stamps controlled the ball and the clock masterfully in the last three minutes of play to claim victory once again in a last minute fashion. This years version of the Cardiac kids, seem to thrive on the idea of a last minute victory, which is good for the fans but probably hard on the coaches.

Burris led the Stamps down the field and Sandro DeAngelis booted the winning field goal on the last play of the game, securing the 23-22 win for the stamps and putting the Tiger Cats in a hole early on in this CFL season as they now stand 0-3. The latest loss leaves coach Marshall in a bad situation, as he tries to turn around his team with high expectations and a so far slow delivery schedule.

BC 26, TORONTO 19

The BC Lions were on fire and totally dominant in the first half of their week three contest with the Toronto Argonauts, the air attack and the running game combining to take complete charge of the situation.

So confident was Wally Buono about the state of his team that he pulled Dave Dickenson after the first half, turning the game over to Jarius Jackson who took over the offence and struggled to put up the same kind of attack as Dickenson.

The Argos battled back in the second half as Spurgeon Wynn a former Lion, began to untrack his offence and make a game of things. Ricky Williams while certainly not reaching his expectations yet, had a decent second half and began to find more room on the field to run the ball and set up the Argo attack, Williams even managed to score his first CFL Touchdown at BC Place in the losing cause.

In the end though, the Leos brought Dickenson back in to quell the sudden Argonaut fire and that was that, another Lion win at 26-19 and the Argos suddenly a struggling team with 1 win and 2 losses to show on their first three weeks.

WINNIPEG 46, EDMONTON 10

The final game of the week was a coming out party for a fairly potent looking Winnipeg Blue Bomber squad. Kevin Glenn had a field day in the air and Charles Roberts ruled the ground as the Bombers took the Eskimos to school at CanadInn stadium with a 46-10 victory.

The Eskimo defence was ripped apart by Glenn as he tossed at will, gobbling up yardage and touchdowns at a rapid clip. For Ricky Ray it was another frustrating game, his Eskimos couldn’t cross the goal line and frequently found their drives stalling out short of the Bomber end zone.

The Bombers went into the season with a much discussed defence, one which many CFL head coaches said would be a squad to be reckoned with. Last week Glenn and the offence made a case for the other side of the ball as well, suddenly a Bomber team that was full of question marks in the pre season is starting to gel quite nicely.

While it’s still far too early in the season to think about the Grey Cup, it’s not totally out of the question that the host city of this years Grey Cup may have a home town squad to cheer for in the final battle of the year for Lord Grey’s Mug!