Source: Saskatchewan to host 2013 Grey Cup
Posted September 30, 2011 3:33 pm.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Grey Cup is returning to Saskatchewan.
A CFL source requesting anonymity said Friday the 2013 contest will be played at Mosaic Stadium. In fact, the Saskatchewan Roughriders will reportedly hold a news conference Oct. 13 to make the official announcement.
CFL commissioner Mark Cohon wasn’t available for comment Friday as he and other members of the league’s head office were en route to Vancouver to attend the B.C. Lions’ game Saturday against the Edmonton Eskimos at refurbished B.C. Place.
Riders’ officials also weren’t available as many were travelling to the club’s game Saturday afternoon in Calgary.
The awarding of the ’13 Grey Cup to Regina is somewhat surprising, though, because it was generally thought the game would be held in Ottawa. The CFL granted the Canadian capital a conditional expansion franchise that was expected to start up in 2013 and has even approved an expansion draft plan for the yet unnamed club.
And staging the Grey Cup would’ve provided the new Ottawa franchise a financial boon.
With Regina now holding the game, questions again arise regarding when the Ottawa club might return to the CFL.
Saskatchewan last hosted the Grey Cup in 2003, when seating at Mosaic Stadium was expanded to 50,000 with the addition of roughly 20,000 temporary seats for the CFL’s title game. The city also staged the ’95 contest.
This year’s CFL championship will be decided at B.C. Place on Nov. 27, with Toronto hosting in 2012 at the Rogers Centre. That will mark the 100th anniversary of the Grey Cup.
