the toronto argonauts won the grey cup this year 2017.
who won the grey cup this year 2017?
the toronto argonauts
klassen played in two grey cup games during the b.c. lions' glory years in the mid-1980s, where he played the two best games of his cfl career. his first grey cup experience came in 1983 when the lions hosted the championship game during the first year of bc place's existence. that year, the lions hosted the western final for the first time since their 1964 grey cup championship and beat winnipeg, 39-21. in the 71st grey cup, the lions built up a 17-7 half-time lead but, unfortunately, weren't able to maintain the lead, eventually losing to the toronto argonauts 18-17 in front of 59,345 fans at bc place. klassen was a force at defensive end during the 1983 grey cup, earning 2.5 sacks and the grey cup's most valuable canadian. two years later, klassen was given another shot at winning the grey cup. b.c. got back to the grey cup in 1985 in what might be considered the greatest lions team in club history. the team breezed through the 1985 cfl season, finishing with a club-record 13-3 mark to finish first place in the west division and host their third consecutive western final. the leos dominated the winnipeg blue bombers at bc place, winning it 42-22. in the 73rd grey cup, b.c. continued its dominance against the hamilton tiger-cats "en route" to a 37-24 victory at olympic stadium in montreal, ending a 21-year drought. klassen again played an outstanding game at defensive tackle, pressuring and sacking hamilton quarterback ken hobart twice during the game to earn what would be his only grey cup championship, however his heroic effort at olympic stadium was overshadowed by the play of james "quick" parker, who was named the grey cup's most valuable player on defence. klassen finished his cfl career second all-time in grey cup sacks with 4.5, only behind tyrone jones.
rick klassen
the 96th grey cup was held in montreal, quebec at olympic stadium on november 23, 2008. the eastern division champion montreal alouettes hosted the western division champion calgary stampeders. the stampeders won the game 22-14, with quarterback henry burris winning the mvp award. it was the first time montreal had hosted the grey cup since 2001, the first time since the 2002 grey cup that the host city played for the grey cup, and the first time since the 58th grey cup in 1970 that the alouettes and stampeders had met for the national championship. hoping to break the record for highest attendance for a grey cup game, the organizers expanded olympic stadium to almost 70,000 seats. a crowd of 66,308 attended the game, failing to break the record of 68,318 set in 1977, but good enough to be the second-highest attended grey cup game of all time. montreal has now played host to the four highest-attended grey cup games in history. as of the end of the 2017 cfl season, this is the last time a western-based team has won the grey cup in eastern canada.
96th grey cup