Alberta premier Kenney says he eyes full capacity for CFL games this coming summer
A Calgary Stampeders fan cheers her team during CFL West Semifinal football action against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, in Calgary, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. Alberta is expressing hope for full capacity crowds at CFL games this summer. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh May 26, 2021 - 2:04 PM
EDMONTON - Alberta s premier is expressing hope for full capacity crowds at CFL games this summer.
Jason Kenney says the Edmonton Football Team and Calgary Stampeders could sell as many seats as possible in their outdoor stadiums if certain targets are met under the province s reopening plan. The province s plan calls for all restrictions to be lifted two weeks after 70 per cent of Albertans aged 12 or over have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine with numbers of cases declining as well.
Robbie Lowes. (Courtesy Piper Sports Photography)
Kyle Borsa and Robbie Lowes are used to facing off against each other in practice, and that’s not going to change in the CFL.
Borsa, a running back, and Lowes, a linebacker, have been teammates for years. It began as members of the Riffel Royals when Lowes was a senior and Borsa was just in Grade 10.
They were teammates again a few years later, when Lowes joined the University of Regina Rams after time spent with the Regina Thunder and Westshore Rebels junior teams.
And even when the two didn’t get to pick where they would start their CFL careers, they wound up being taken by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers just four picks apart in the 2021 draft.
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A proposed new financing deal for IG Field won’t have the Winnipeg Blue Bombers repay tens of millions in unpaid loans to the provincial government.
A proposed new financing deal for IG Field won’t have the Winnipeg Blue Bombers repay tens of millions in unpaid loans to the provincial government.
However, it will protect taxpayers from further exposure and allow the CFL franchise to become a self-sustaining entity.
It is the best anybody could hope for at this point.
The proposal announced last week is a convoluted pact between the Bombers, province, City of Winnipeg and University of Manitoba. It’s less complex than the rat nest the former NDP government concocted for the original stadium deal, but it does have a lot of moving parts.
Maruo understands that he needs to do anything he is asked by the coaches and that he will need to show his do-what-it-takes attitude anywhere, including on special teams.