Season's Greetings And Best Wishes To All

[Tracker]

                                                                        

[kelownabomberfan]

Yes - Merry Christmas to all! 

[Piggy 1]

Merry Christmas guys and gals. And all the best in 2026. 

[Noeller]

Merry Christmas, fam! Here's to a return to glory in 2026!

[Pete Catan's Ghost]

Merry Christmas from ghosts: past, present, future, and Catan

[Booch]

Yup...Safe and happy holiday season....and the the best moving forward....hopefully on the feild too!

[Mark H.]

May 2026 be glorious for the Blue and Gold.

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

[SpeedFlex27]

 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all!!

Edited December 25, 2025 by SpeedFlex27

[Goalie]

Yup. MARY  CHRISTmas

[johnzo]

best of the season y'all.  May 2026 be our return to glory!

[Noeller]

So I got a belated holiday present from a friend.... One of those "I Was One Of The 12,321" shirts from that infamous playoff game.

Question for the octogenarians around here... What year was that? I would have been really young at the time... I'm thinking it was around '84 right? 

Anyhow, got that along with a copy of Vince Leah's Blue Bombers History book from 1979. Looking forward to diving into that...

[SpeedFlex27]

16 hours ago, Noeller said:

So I got a belated holiday present from a friend.... One of those "I Was One Of The 12,321" shirts from that infamous playoff game.

Question for the octogenarians around here... What year was that? I would have been really young at the time... I'm thinking it was around '84 right? 

Anyhow, got that along with a copy of Vince Leah's Blue Bombers History book from 1979. Looking forward to diving into that...

That tee shirt was from the Eastern Division Semi Final game played at Winnipeg Stadium on November 13, 1988. The Bombers won 35-28. Attendance was an embarrassment & a shock as crowds at Winnipeg Stadium in 1988 were fairly consistent all season long around 24,000. Hence, the idea for a tee shirt commemorating that game with the attendance on the front.

The Bombers got on a roll behind qb Sean Salisbury in the playoffs. They took care of Hamilton at home & then beat the Argos 27-11 a  week later in the Eastern Final at CNE Stadium on November 20th. Then they wrapped up the Trifecta on November 27th by defeating the heavily favoured BC Lions by a score of 22-21. in the Grey Cup at Lansdowne Park which featured DT Michael Gray deflection of a Matt Dunigan pass to an open receiver in the end zone. Not only did he deflect the pass up into the air but he caught it on the way down at the goalline to preserve the Bomber win & the Grey Cup Championship.  I'll never forget that play. 

The story goes that the Bombers supposedly sold over 50,000 of those tee shirts. I don't know if that was true or not.  There were fans that bought that tee shirt who never attended the game while claiming they did just to join the Grey Cup bandwagon. I can't confirm that number to be true or not but a lot of people did buy that tee shirt. It seemed everyone was wearing one & it was a hot ticket item for Christmas that year.

I was there along with my wife as we were STH's in Sec V, row 29 & seats 12 & 13 at the old barn on Maroons Road. I never got a tee shirt, though. 

Michael Gray: Grey Cup hero. 

Edited 2 hours ago by SpeedFlex27

[bb1]

Happy New year everyone...have a great 2026!  

[SpeedFlex27]

Just got the news that one of our friend's daughter has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Just 38 years old with a husband & young son who is under 2 who will grow up never knowing his Mother. So, not a Happy New Year. Very sad. Our foundation has been rocked today.

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Just got the news that one of our friend's daughter has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Just 38 years old with a husband & young son who is under 2 who will grow up never knowing his Mother. So, not a Happy New Year. Very sad. Our foundation has been rocked today.

I tried to send you a dm and may have screwed up sending it. Pls let me know if it came through.

Edited 22 minutes ago by Tracker

[SpeedFlex27]

7 minutes ago, Tracker said:

I tried to send you a dm and may have screwed up sending it. Pls let me know if it came through.

Thanks Tracker. No, it never went through.

 

[Tracker]

3 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Thanks Tracker. No, it never went through.

 

Will re-send anf hope to not screw it up. Am a painfully slow hunt-and-peck typiest, so it will take a bit.

[SpeedFlex27]

Just some context about my previous message. When Tyler played for the Rifles in 2009 & 10, he stayed with a billet family in St Vital. He became very close with that family & we also became friends with them. At the time, they had two daughters in university. The oldest daughter is the Mom with pancreatic cancer. Very sad.