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| Date | November 27, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | BC Place Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Vancouver | ||||||||||||||||||
| Most Valuable Player | Travis Lulay, QB (Lions) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Most Valuable Canadian | Andrew Harris, RB (Lions) | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Jann Arden | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coin toss | Rick Hansen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Andre Proulx | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | Nickelback | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 54,313 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | English: TSN/TSN HD French: RDS/RDS HD | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | (TSN): Chris Cuthbert, Glen Suitor, Dave Randorf, Jock Climie, Matt Dunigan, Chris Schultz (RDS): Denis Casavant, Pierre Vercheval, Marc Labrecque, Mike Sutherland, Claude Mailhot | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ratings | 4.6 million[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
The 99th Grey Cup was a Canadian football game between the East Division champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the West Division champion BC Lions to decide the champion of the Canadian Football League in the 2011 season. The Lions defeated the Blue Bombers 34–23 and became the first team in CFL history to win the Grey Cup after starting the season with five straight losses.[2] They also became the first team to win the championship game at home since the 1994 Lions did it in the 82nd Grey Cup, and were only the fourth team in the modern era to do so. This, a rematch of the 76th Grey Cup, was the second time that these two teams met for the championship.
The game took place on November 27, 2011, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. This was the eighth Grey Cup game played at BC Place, and the 15th in Vancouver, the most recent previous one having been the 93rd Grey Cup between the Montreal Alouettes and Edmonton Eskimos.
BC head coach Wally Buono won his fifth Grey Cup, tying a CFL record.[3][4] In his first Grey Cup, Lions quarterback Travis Lulay threw two second-half touchdown passes and was named Grey Cup MVP. Lions tailback Andrew Harris, also playing in his first championship game, was the Most Valuable Canadian.[5][6][7]
- ^ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=381490 4.6 million viewers watch 99th Grey Cup on TSN and RDS
- ^ "Lions defeat Blue Bombers to capture 99th Grey Cup". Tsn.ca. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ^ "B.C. Lions post rare Grey Cup triumph in front of hometown fans". Vancouver Sun. November 27, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ^ "BC Lions win the 99th Grey Cup in Vancouver". Digital Journal. November 27, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ^ "LIONS DEFEAT BLUE BOMBERS TO CAPTURE 99TH GREY CUP". TSN.ca. November 27, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ^ "Restoring the roar: B.C. Lions win 99th Grey Cup". CFL.ca. November 27, 2011. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ^ "Andrew Harris named Most Valuable Canadian". CFL.ca. November 27, 2011. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2011.