Monday, November 20, 2006

And the answer is...


Kelly Bates... that will be the answer to the question, which CFL player broke the historic Grey Cup trophy in half during a post game celebration.

Bates, who is apparently a serial offender when it comes to championship hardware (he once broke the Junior football trophy while in Saskatchewan) picked up the trophy and before he knew it was holding bookends of Lord Grey's Chalice.


The trophy which dates back to 1909, is comprised of the Bowl portion and the base with the names of the winning team dating back the previous 93 years with the Lions soon to join the exclusive club.


Perhaps it was appropriate that Bate's decided to divvy up the Cup, the Defense was more than worthy of their own trophy after the way they handled the Montreal Alouettes and the offense while not dominant racked up the yardage when it counted.


In fact if Bates were so inclined perhaps he should have shaken it a bit harder, distributing thirds of a trophy, considering his success on Sunday, Lions kicker Paul McCallum probably deserved a hunk of the historic bowl all to himself.


The Cup was returned to its complete self before the Lions departed for Vancouver and a celebration Tuesday at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Ben Klumper of Winnipeg becomes the second part of our trivia quest for the 94th Grey Cup, Klumper was the man who put the Grey Cup back together again.


Somehow we think that there's an Order of Canada waiting for Mr. Klumper for services rendered to the country!

The above post first appeared on my Twelve men on the Field blog, for more items about Canadian football check it out.

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