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:
“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)
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)
“...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)