On Sunday, the Toronto Argonauts and Winnipeg Blue Bombers will meet in a Grey Cup game for the first time since the Mud Bowl of 1950.
Winnipeg and Toronto have not collided with Canadian football supremacy at stake since Nov. 25, 1950, when the Mud Bowl was played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
CP correspondent Jack Mitchell referred to the playing surface as “a treacherous patchwork of ice-coated and sun-melted blotches” and, for good measure, “a morass of mud and water.”“How much a pre-game cover would have helped Saturday’s field is problematical,” Mitchell wrote. “With rising temperatures turning Friday’s eight inches of snow into rain that stopped shortly before the kickoff, only to start again with five minutes remaining, it was a quagmire.
The Blue Bombers erupted for one first down in the second quarter before moving the chains twice during a futile final frame. There were subsequent reports, part of Grey Cup lore, that Buddy Tinsley was face-down in the mud and gasping for air before striped-shirted official Hec Crighton intervened and valiantly saved the Winnipeg offensive lineman — a future Canadian football Hall of Famer — from drowning.
“You didn’t let anyone down, Buddy,” the Winnipeg signal-caller replied. “It was just one of those things.”
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