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. Thats the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it theres a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. Theres a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, theres a satisfaction to the game that cant be duplicated. Theres a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“You cant be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airlineit helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (19401993)
“...Im not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but whats the difference? You cant take it with you. The toys get different, thats all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. Its all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)