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The Grey Cup

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The Sporting Almanac Podcast by Jack Senior and Ben Davies

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Episode 32: The Grey Cup - Canadian Football's Grand Finale

Canadian Football is a weird and wonderful thing, especially to those only acquainted with its immensely popular equivalent played south of the border. To an NFL fan, watching the CFL can seem like a fever dream. The pitch is a bit too big, the goalposts are in the wrong place, the endzones look like they need to go on a diet and wide receivers just won't stand still. And the less said about the rouge the better...

But to Canadians - and, honestly, to the occasional impartial observer - it is an arguably even more exciting spectacle whose rules encourage faster play, more passing and kick returning, more unpredictability and some of the wildest finishes to games in all of sport. And it's all built upon a long history and over a century of its biggest spectacl ... 

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SportSports HistoryNFLAmerican FootballCanadaGridironCanadian FootballCFLGrey CupToronto ArgonautsEdmonton ElksEdmonton EskimosWarren MoonRuss JacksonDick SudermanSaskatchewan RoughridersMontreal AlouettesLamar Jackson
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