I randomly caught the second half of the Grey Cup last weekend (Canadian Football League championship). It was very captivating. Did anyone else catch this on ESPN2?? There are all sorts of different rules, but I got the jist of it pretty quickly. 3 downs instead of 4, a 1 point "rouge" if the receiving team doesn't return the ball out of the end zone on a kick off, and some very different OT rules (all of which would come into play). The wind was also a huge factor.
It was perhaps one of the worst chokes I've ever seen. It was Hamilton vs defending champs Winnipeg. Hamilton hadn't won the Cup in 22 years and was playing on their home field. They blew a 10 point lead in the 4th, and were down 2 with a few minutes left. Winnipeg kicked off and the Hamilton retruner took a knee in the end zone, which gave the Winnipeg an extra point and made it a field goal would only tie the game. Sure enough they march down the field and have a guy drop a catchable ball in the end zone that would have won it, then kick a field goal to send it to OT. Predictably the wind was out of their sails at this point and they lost in OT.
Very dejected and bewildered team and fans for Hamilton.
Horrible choke job!
It'll probably be another 20 years until I wach another CFL game, but that was pretty entertaining.
Redz, my friend, you watched the Pats come back from being down 28-3 with only 17 minutes remaining in regulation in Super Bowl LI and you think that CFL game was the worst choke job ever?
If so, that must have been some choke job of a game to be worse than the greatest choke job in NFL history. Of course even that is debatable when compared to the Houston Oilers choke job against the Buffalo Bills back in the 90's.
