10 Lists in 10 Days | Single Game Passing

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10 Lists in 10 Days | Single Game Passing

One of the greatest single-game individual performances in Canadian Football League history — and the greatest amongst quarterbacks in this grand ol' loop — opened with Matt Dunigan handing the ball off twice to Blaise Bryant.

And then Bob Cameron was trotted out to punt.

What then followed that night on July 14, 1994, at Winnipeg Stadium was the most prolific passing performance in both the history of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the CFL.

Dunigan would finish the night — the Blue Bombers 1994 home opener — completing 33-of-52 passes for five touchdowns against two interceptions and an astonishing 713 yards passing.

That ain't no misprint: 7-1-3.

"What a crazy night," Dunigan told yours truly for a Winnipeg Free Press story on the 20-year anniversary of the feat in July of 2014. "It just felt like a basketball player who sees the hoop and it looks like it's 10 feet wide or a baseball player who is seeing the ball coming out of the pitcher's hand and it looks like a softball coming at you. When you're in that zone it's like, 'Oh yeah... this is good.'

"That night we all felt like, 'Do we have to stop? Can we play a couple more quarters?'"

His incredible accomplishment seemed like a good place to start our '10 Lists in 10 Days' series, highlighting some of the best performances in Blue Bombers history over the next week and a bit.

Dunigan's record-setting night came in a rematch of the 1993 Grey Cup — a 33-23 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos — as the Blue Bombers exacted a bit of revenge in a 50-35 win. His 713-yard effort eclipsed the CFL record of 601, set by Danny Barrett of the B.C. Lions just 11 months earlier which, in turn, had bested Sam Etcheverry's mark of 586 which had stood since 1954.

He also smashed his own team mark for passing yards in a game of 467, set in 1992.

That same night two Blue Bombers receivers would break the club record for receiving yards in a game, with Alfred Jackson finishing with 308 yards and David Williams with 240.

Dunigan had just 88 yards passing at the end of the first quarter but was up to 322 by halftime. And with Edmonton keeping the game close right to the final moments, the veteran pivot was kept in the game and kept filling the air with passes.

In the final minute, he went from 699 yards passing to 713 on a 14-yard completion to Allan Boyko....

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