Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Grey Cup Pick, CFL Playoffs

Toronto Argonauts/Calgary Stampeders: tough pick. Both teams won at home in the first round and on the road in the second. Calgary had the better record during the regular season but the Argonauts beat them twice. Toronto has home field advantage but home teams don't win the Grey Cup very often, although B.C. did last year and the Ti-Cats won at Ivor Wynne in 1972. They've met twice in the Grey Cup Finals, in 1971 and 1991 (neither team had home field advantage in either game), the Stampeders winning the former, the Argos taking the later. With Ricky Ray at the helm for Toronto, things are somewhat different since he's played Calgary so many times, 3 times in the playoffs, having been benched in 2005 in a game which Edmonton eventually won, followed by a loss in 2009 and a victory last year. He played against the Blue Bombers when they were quarterbacked by Kevin Glenn in the 2008 crossover East Semi-Final, winning 29-21. Glenn and Ray were both born in 1979. Toronto hasn't made the finals too often in recent years but they did win the Grey Cup in 2004, their only appearance in the finals since 1997, when Doug Flutie was their quarterback. Since 1997, the Stampeders have  won the Grey Cup three times and lost once (to Hamilton, 32-21, in 1999). My gut keeps oscillating between the two so I can't trust it. What happened in the regular season during which Calgary had the better record but couldn't beat the Argos no longer matters. I don't know; Calgary by 10.  

No comments:

Post a Comment