History of the Grey Cup features the trials and triumphs of Canada’s national classic since its beginnings in 1909. Sportswriter and football aficionado Graham Kelly brings to life the passion and excitement of the finals of Canada’s own game:

• The Calgary Stampeders invented the Grey Cup festival in 1948 by showing the host city Toronto how to party Western-style
• Although legend has it that the great Eagle Keys snapped the ball for the convert that won the 1954 Grey Cup for Edmonton against Montréal, it was really Bill Briggs covering for Keys, who at that point had a broken leg
• Between 1975 and 1987, the Edmonton Eskimos won seven Grey Cups, five in a row from ’78 to ’82
• Was Blue Bomber lineman Buddy Tinsley really almost drowning in the “Mud Bowl” of 1950 against Winnipeg?
• The American expansion in the mid-1990s resulted in a U.S. team, the Baltimore Stallions, winning the Grey Cup in 1995
• Sharpshooters and police in riot gear positioned throughout the stadium handled the FLQ terrorist threat in Montréal at Grey Cup 1969
• Damon Allen, age 41 and a grandfather, quarterbacked the Toronto Argos to the 2004 Grey Cup win against the BC Lions
• When TSN picked their Top 50 CFLers of all time in 2006, quarterback Doug Flutie was voted number one
• Roughrider fans will never forget the infamous 13th-man debacle in Saskatchewan’s devastating Grey Cup loss to Montréal in 2009
• Anthony Calvillo, quarterback for the Alouettes, has won three Grey Cups (2002, 2009, 2010) with his team and is the all-time professional football passing yards leader.