Enjoyed watching the Grey Cup last night at Bethel's "tailgate" party. Unfortunately most of my close football-watching friends live in Calgary... and thus they were probably enjoying the game even moreso! Very glad that the Stampeders are the 2008 Grey Cup Champions.
Henry Burris has had his critics, and with good reason, and yet it was nice to see him lead the team, not be the quarterback who threw two bad interceptions, and be the MVP. Happy Hank was wearing his great smile after the game and with good reason. Though it was surprising that the Als QB Anthony Calvillo had two bad interceptions... "bad" being defined as a bad decision (the pass where he was under so much pressure and just threw it right into Stampeder coverage) and a bad quality throw (Calvillo throwing the ball over the receiver's wrong shoulder in the end zone). Also nice to see the always-clutch kicker, Sandro DeAngelis, kick amazingly well. Oh yeah, and Mike Labinjo was awesome on defence. I counted three knockdowns, one sack and at least 2-3 tackles. As much as I like the energy and emotion of DeAngelis... the fistpumps when he gets a big FG are great... I think Labinjo could have been awarded Top Canadian (though its hard to argue with five FG's). Oh yeah, and since the Stamps got shut out of the individual awards... and probably rightly so... it was good to see the best team win.
Oh and you gotta love that we have both an MVP award for the game and a Most Outstanding Canadian award! (that was fun to explain to my wife why they have that award). Oh yes, and I am a proud fan of the Canadian Football League and am glad to see the league doing well! And credit to the city of Montreal for a great crowd, packing over 66,000 fans into Olympic Stadium.
Some new pictures taken in the last few weeks of our son, Caleb, who enjoys:
