B8 - Wednesday, November 23, 1983 - North Shore News

GREY CUP FEVER

How the West was won

THE UNIVERSE IS unfolding as it should. A
perfect script for the B.C. Lions. Playing in their
first Grey Cup in 19 years, and at home in great
mushroom dome after a big come from behind win
in the western final last Sunday.

After leading the league all
season, Lions came up
against what was supposed to
be a hot Winnipeg Blue
Bombers in the Western
final. For almost three
quarters the game took on all
the appearances of the old
Alphonse-Gaston routine
with mistakes and turnovers
destroying what could have
been a great game.

However, the good guys
won in the end setting the

Stage for the big one this
Sunday.

A new coach and a new
home for the Lions didn’t
upset the team as many had
wondered before the season
began. After the Vic Rapp
era, Don Matthews came to
town and was quietly able to
pul together a strong and
stable team. But let’s be
honest and admit that the
quarterbacking problems of
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Eskimos - to say nothing of
the Saskatchewan
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eat up the West.

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other four western teams
gave the Lions the chance to
have their mid-season change
of life crisis and get over it
before any lasting damage
was done. Lions were able to

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recover their poise and romp
home well ahead of the se-
cond place Bombers.

The big concern for the
Lions going into the national
championship on Sunday
must be their stuttering of-
fense. If this club has trouble
moving the ball in the Grey
Cup for any long periods of
time, they could be in trou-
ble. However, the players
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prove that they belong on the
top of the heap.

When Tom Clements and
the Bomberrs had that big
game a week or so ago
against the faded, jaded
Eskimos, all the ‘experts’
began to think that this team
could go all the way. But for
the Bombers, it was the first
time they had been
reasonably healthy in the
quarterback department for

some time. And the Esks just
didn’t have it.

The long layoff didn’t help
Lions, but they managed to
put their game together late
in the third quarter and came
on strong to overwhelm Win-
nipeg proving that they
deserved to be on top.

And on Sunday, playing at
home, don’t think thase

Lions won’t be pumped up.
Now, if they can only stop
stuttering.

~~ NEWS photo Stuart Davis

WIDE receiver Ned Armour gets a lift from fans
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which they hope will continue through Sunday.

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