Comments on: 2007 Grey Cup Champions: Saskatchewan Roughriders!

By: Saskboy

Saskboy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:54:07 +0000

I’ve thought the same thing too Melissa. I want my alternate reality Hamilton Champions of 1989 hats :-D

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:35:29 +0000

I was always pretty sure that they made hats for both teams but I have always wondered how one of the losing teams hats didn’t end up on some ebay site. What do they do with the other hats? Must be pretty good security, because I think it would just be fun to have a fake one that has the official tags on it.

By: G.

G. — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:59:04 +0000

I know it from the source - the Snowbirds sticker was added just before the Ridders received the cup.

By: Saskboy

Saskboy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:59:55 +0000

It’s not my apartment, it’s where the party was :-)

Did you think the leader of The Teleban would have a plasma TV??? ;-)

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:37:16 +0000

You’ve either got a girlfriend or you’re OCD. That apartment is waaaaay too clean for a single guy.

By: Saskboy

Saskboy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:25:56 +0000

More about another sticker last year:
http://www.voxair.ca/index.php?page=1&issue=21&year=2006&status=1

By: Saskboy

Saskboy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:25:19 +0000

Thanks Tim.

“Rick Hillier:
We transported the Grey Cup from Winnipeg International to the Stadium in one of our Griffin helicopters, 430 squadron out of Valcartier. I don’t know if you have ever seen the Stanley Cup or the Grey Cup or things of that nature when they are transported. The Grey Cup is transported in a locked steel grey container and box. It is transported by two big hefty guys who treat it with their white gloves and they don’t let anybody near it, they don’t let anybody touch it unless they give you permission specifically. They never let it out of their sight. Our guys fley that box with the cup in it from Winnipeg International to the stadium. Those two big guys with it, got out there. At the end of the game when the British Columbian Lions put the cup up as you can see in the bottom right, when they hoisted the cup, there was the sticker from 430 squadron. How it got there, nobody knows. That cup was never out of sight of those two big hefty guys.

But I come to the war story part. Do you know what was special about that? It is those two big hefty guys, when they opened the box to take the cup out for the presentation at the end of the game, they saw the sticker and they left it there, as their little tribute to the men and women in uniform and what they do. Our recruit the nation strategy has paid dividends in a way that we never thought it would, bringing those recruits despite that being just one of the pillars of that recruit the nation strategy, bringing some of the investment that we need, bringing some of the political decisions that we need, but I think bringing in an awareness from Canadians of what, as I said at the start, what national treasures they actually have in uniform. ”

I have a soft spot for the Snowbirds. They come from Moose Jaw just 2 hours from where I grew up, and sometimes flew over my home in training. I say leave the sticker :-D and add to the Cup’s folklore.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:52:22 +0000

Okay, all I was able to find was information of another sticker put on the bottom of the grey cup last year by 430 Squadron (Helicopters) There is a picture of it here

http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/site/newsroom/news_e.asp?id=2118

Players from the BC Lions hold up the Grey Cup. A small sticker with the numbers 4-3-0 and an eagle’s head can be seen on the bottom of the cup. Photo: Cpl Bill Gomm

Hence, the Snowbirds snuck it on this year…some how some where????