Football
Winnipeg has a team in the Canadian Football League, the Blue Bombers, who have won 10 Grey Cups, the league's championship trophy. The Winnipeg 'Pegs won the Grey Cup in 1935. Winnipeg also hosted the Grey Cup game in 1991, 1998 and 2006.
The city is also home to the North Winnipeg Nomads Wolf Pack women's tackle football team who compete in the WWCFL, a women's league that spans three prairie provinces.
| Years Operated | Team | League(s) | Championships |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930–Present | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | CFL | 10 |
| 1920–1996 | Winnipeg Hawkeyes | MJFL, CJFL | 0 |
| 1920–1994 | Winnipeg Rods | MJFL, CJFL | 5 |
| 2002–Present | Winnipeg Rifles | CJFL | 0 |
| 2011–Present | North Winnipeg Nomads Wolf Pack | WWCFL | 0 |
Read more about this topic: Sport In Winnipeg
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)