65th Grey Cup

65th Grey Cup was the 1977 championship game of the Canadian Football League. It is also easily my favorite Wikibloogia to date. According to Wikipedia, everything you're about to read actually did happen and isn't the synopsis of a live-action Disney movie starring Dwayne Johnson.

Late November, 1977. The Montreal Alouettes are facing the Edmonton Eskimos, and it is frigidly cold. The turf is iced over, and no one can get their footing. People are slipping and sliding all over the place. Fumbles abound. That's when a Montreal defensive back named Tony Proudfoot gets an idea. He borrows a staple gun from a Bell Canada employee, and puts staples in the bottoms of his sneakers. Over the course of the game, the rest of his teammates put staples in the bottoms of their sneakers too, and the newly sure-footed Alouettes go on to dominate the slip-sliding Eskimos by a final of 41-6.

A kicker named Don Sweet broke the record for points in a Grey Cup final, a record that still stands. And the Alouettes' head coach was Marv Levy.


There's nothing they can't do.
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