For some people November is a depressing month. The warm days of summer are now well in the rear-view mirror. The pretty colours of the leaves changing in October have now fallen off the trees leaving just bare, jagged branches. The weather gets cold quickly, but not cold enough for a picturesque snowfall – just cold enough to give the rain a chilling bite. And if that’s not enough, the clocks move back creating pure darkness from 5pm on.
For fans of CFL playoff teams, November is the single greatest month on the calendar. The CFL regular season is a lot of fun. Most games are played in the warm summer, and the excitement builds as each week rolls along and we start to separate the contenders from the pretenders. This season there was a great finish in the east, with three teams going right down to the last game of the season to determine a winner. But once that calendar turns over to November the intensity jumps from regular season mode to do-or-die playoff mode. The crowds are louder, the stakes are higher, and the Grey Cup is on the line.
We have now officially arrived at Grey Cup week and diehard fans are taking off work in order to attend the game or just attend a Grey Cup party and not have to worry about work the following day. Grey Cup Sunday is also where the fringe CFL fans also join in on the fun. Like somebody who attends church once a year on Christmas, there will be a tonne of people who haven’t watched a game all season, but will tune in Sunday for the big game.
The Ticats are 7.5 point underdogs in the Grey Cup against Calgary and that spread is understandable. Calgary won both regular season meetings and has been absolutely dominant from the beginning of the season until now, so the Ticats will need a near perfect game to knock off the Stamps. It’s not likely, maybe, but you never know for sure. One thing we can be sure of is for this one dark evening in November, there is no spotlight any brighter.
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