The new NBA season has begun, and LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are overwhelming favourites to win the NBA title. Cleveland is in a league of their own, hovering above the rest of the teams. If they don’t win a championship the Cavs’ entire season will be looked at as a failure.
The 2014 Calgary Stampeders are the CFL’s answer to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Calgary’s season will either end with a Grey Cup Championship or it will be a colossal disaster. There is no in between.
Since week one of the CFL season this has looked like Calgary’s year. The Stamps won their first two games by a combined score of 63-23 and have not looked back since rolling to a 14-2 record. B.C got the better of Calgary in week six, winning a one-point nailbiter, 25-24. The Stamps’ second loss was September 21st in Montreal, a game where neither their starting quarterback nor superstar running back were in the lineup. Weeks four and five saw Hamilton and Edmonton keep games close, losing by just three and four points respectively. Since then Calgary has dominated their games, all of their wins coming by seven points or more.
All of this has quietly put Calgary on pace to tie the 1989 Edmonton Eskimos for all-time best single season record at 16-2. How has this been done so quietly? Why has this not been a bigger storyline throughout the season? Because fans are bored of Calgary’s regular season success.
Season after successful season Calgary has set themselves up for a playoff push. They’ve reached the Western finals in four of the last five years. Out of those years however they’ve advanced to the big dance only once, losing to the Argos in the 100th Grey Cup.
First place has been wrapped up, Bo-Levi Mitchell and Jon Cornish should enter the post season rested and with full health. No excuses for the Stamps; this is their shot to win it all. Calgary is the easy prediction to end up on top. Unlike basketball however, predicting the way a football will bounce can be a dangerous game.
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