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:
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it 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 (1940–1993)
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)