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2022-11-20 Game Tracker - Toronto Argonauts vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers (6296) - CFL.ca
‘CAN’T ESCAPE THAT FEELING:’ GC109 IS HERE IN ALL ITS GLORY
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DON LANDRY
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It’s here again, Canada. The big game, with a shining history, adored by legions of faithful fans.
And two linebackers, from two very different places, are just the right guys to paint a pretty picture about the meaning of the Grey Cup game.
You might not think that eloquently expressing the loft of the occasion could be entrusted to a couple of smash-mouth tacklers, but believe me when I tell you that Mike O’Shea and Henoc Muamba can do it and they can do it well.
“I probably don’t speak in those kinds of words,” said O’Shea, greatly underestimating himself when asked to access his inner poet in order to talk about what the spectacle means to him, to players and to a nation.
O’Shea, the hall of fame linebacker who is in search of his seventh championship as both a player and a coach when his Winnipeg Blue Bombers take on the Toronto Argonauts in the 109th Grey Cup, ended up speaking in exactly those kinds of words.
“When you see the pictures of the previous champions hoisting the Cup and it’s got a base on it that’s only this big,” O’Shea began, holding his fingers a few inches apart, “and they’re drinking out of that same cup — that if you’re good enough that day you’ll get a chance to drink out of it — there’s something about sharing that same passion, vision, desire, goal, as guys did 109 years ago.