The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are the 108th Grey Cup champions. On Sunday from Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario, the Blue Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 33-25 in overtime. This was the fourth Grey Cup championship that went into extra time.
The Blue Bombers were led offensively by quarterback Zach Collaros, the 2021 Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Player Award winner, running back Andrew Harris of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and wide receiver Darvin Adams. Collaros completed 21 of 32 passes for 240 yards and two touchdowns. Harris had 18 rushes for 80 yards, and Adams had five catches for 61 yards and one touchdown.
The most outstanding Canadian of the 2019 Grey Cup was Nic Demski of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Demski had four catches for 27 yards and one touchdown. Demski’s touchdown catch was for 29 yards with six minutes and nine seconds left in the fourth quarter, and put Winnipeg within two points (22-20 Hamilton at the time).
Collaros becomes the seventh player in Canadian Football League history to win the CFL Most Outstanding Player Award and the most valuable player in the Grey Cup in the same season. He follows Ottawa Roughriders quarterback Russ Jackson of Hamilton Ontario, (1969), Montreal Alouettes running back David Green (1979), quarterback Doug Flutie (1992 with the Calgary Stampeders and 1996 and 1997 with the Toronto Argonauts), Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Danny McManus (1999), British Columbia Lions quarterback Travis Lulay (2011), and Calgary Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell (2018).
The other three Grey Cups that went into overtime came in 1961, 2005, and 2016. In 1961, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 21-14 in Toronto. In 2005, the Edmonton Eskimos beat the British Columbia Lions 38-35 in Vancouver, and in 2016, the Ottawa Redblacks beat the Calgary Stampeders 39-33 in Toronto.
