The 1987 Eastern Final was a goddamn nightmare. We lapped the league that season and we laid a total egg at home in front of about 12,000 fans. What a terrible way to end the Tom Clements / Willard Reaves era. The CFL's semi-lucrative TV contract ended after that season and a ton of talent was cut from the league. That year put the whole league in a near-death spiral that it didn't really pull out of unti the Radically Canadian years.
The 2011 Grey Cup was a heartbreaker. Played on my birthday, the only Bomber Grey Cup game I've ever seen live. Bombers hit the snooze button five times before making the game a bit interesting in garbage time ... then Odell Willis dropped a sure pick six and Andrew Harris put a fork in us on the following drive.
The recent regular season win against Calgary was kind of a big deal for me. I'd written the Bombers off, they were down to their emergency QB, playing Calgary in a game that mattered ... a sure recipe for annihilation. But then they gutted it out and better yet they repeated it two weeks later when it counted. That Zass Strevelaros combo could become a Bomber legend in 2019. So stoked for Sunday!