Little Napoleon leads Edmonton to its most exciting Grey Cup win ever

Danny Maciocia had an abysmal regular season. It looked like we might not even be able to beat Calgary and rumours were sirculating that Ron Lancaster might return as head coach. But by pulling Rick Ray in favour of Jason Mass (who didn't play at all this season) was gutsy and it paid off twice. Don Matthews is suppossed to be the madman of the CFL but today Edmonton's madman beat Montreal's madman. Then in the final game when it all mattered he stayed with his no.1 guy and he prevailed throwing a long pass on a 3rd and 4 to get the eskimos last touchdown before overtime paid off. The eskimos secondary almost halted the alouettes hopes at the end of the game by nearly intercepting the ball with 8 seconds left. Overtime and I thought it was exciting when Tony Tompkins set a CFL record for the longest punt return in a Grey Cup.

Overtime (Grey Cup overtime with rules I haven't heard of) hasn't been played since 1961. Even Don Matthews coach one. Regular CFL overtime has 2- 5 minute halfs to declare a winner. This overtime had rotating series till one team scored more than the other team. No punting here all three downs are used to score here.

The Als looked like they had it and then Edmonton came back. The maddness wasn't over yet. Then immediately afterwards went down the field for a field goal. Montreal failed and the esks triumped.

More entertaining the game was the Danny Maciocia, the eskimos coach who over the past three games has made former head coach Higgins look like a pragmitist, He started jumping around like a little green laprachon who stole the gold with the whole country watching. With his daring moves you would think they were made by a madman with visions of alien encounters but there is method behind his madness. The reason why Jason Maas didn't play was because next season he will be playing for a different team and why ruin Ricky Ray's confidence when you know he is going be your guy next year. Here's to Grey Cup 2006. Ray vs Mass. Edmonton vs Hamilton?