Edmonton & Montreal Grey Cup Pre-Game

[Pigskin]

I will be hoping for Edmonton to win the cup. I hope Dublanko and Anderson get to Alexander early and often.

[Tecno]

It just dawned on me, as I'm telling the wife we don't have to go to Calgary, that Montreal winning today was the worst possible outcome for the stamps club...

Montreal fans don't travel. They just don't. They barely had a hundred fans just down the street in the 2023 grey cup. They won't be buying any gc 2026 tickets either.

Now, if Winnipeg was in the cup you know that a third of the crowd would be wearing blue and gold, just like 2019.  Missed opportunity for the stamps finances, that's for sure.

At least they'll have half of Edmonton driving down for it, so it should still be rockin.

* MTL does have a couple of dozen every-gc fans, so I exclude those from my disdain. Nice people too: I've met many over the years at cups.

[Waffler]

Wpg-Edm would have gotten the most ticket demand. Edmonton making it is enough though. Going to be almost like a home game for them. Very doable 3 hour drive with many fans knowing family or friends they could crash with for a night or 2 makes it the cheapest Grey Cup trip they could get. AND cheer the home side? win/win.

Glad to see both first place clubs there, as it should be.

For multiple reasons I will be cheering for Edmonton.

[TBURGESS]

Edm fans travel well and it's just down the highway. 

[Ridermania]

Calgary is very happy Elks won, more tickets will now be sold for the Grey Cup. 

[Blue In BC]

I'll be rooting for the Elks. Alexander is not a likeable player. Too much ego and arrogance.

[GOLDMEMBER]

I dislike both franchises but I hate montreal more so Elks.

[tlf]

I disliked Cody in Montreal but I really like him with the Elks..maybe it's just Montreal I hate lol.

I will be cheering for the Elks definitely.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Those Elks are a better team than I expected, they're going to give the Als all they can handle and may even come away with the win.

[Balticfox]

Edmonton making it is enough though. Going to be almost like a home game for them. Very doable 3 hour drive....

I see that Metropolitan Edmonton has a population of over 1.69 million while Metropolitan Calgary has a population of 1.85 million. You'd think there must be all kinds of travel between the two cities. Moreover Edmonton and Calgary are 185 miles apart. That's about the ideal distance for a relaxing three hour train trip.

But there has not been passenger train service between the two cities since 1985. I don't understand it.

Glad to see both first place clubs there, as it should be.

Yes, absolutely! I agree.

 

[Balticfox]

Here are the results of previous Grey Cup matchups between Montréal and Edmonton:

1954: Edmonton 26 Montréal 25
1955: Edmonton 34 Montréal 19
1956: Edmonton 50 Montréal 27
1974: Montréal 20 Edmontoon 7
1975: Edmonton 9 Montréal 8
1977: Montréal 41 Edmonton 6
1978: Edmonton 20 Montréal 13
1979: Edmonton 17 Montréal 9
2002: Montréal 25 Edmonton 16
2003: Edmonton 34 Montréal 22
2004: Edmonton 38 Montréal 35

But Edmonton's 8-3 record against Montréal may no longer have that much predictive potency since Edmonton's team is no longer the Eskimos. We'll see.