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THE COMING 2014 season is a landmark campaign for the Canadian Football

League.For the first time since

2005, the venerable circuit will have nine teams with the return of three-down football to the nation’s capital.

The debut of the Ottawa RedBlacks this year brings the CFL back to the nine-team, two-division format that fans enjoyed for decades when Ottawa was home to the legendary Rough Riders and, later, the not-so-legend-ary Renegades.

Ottawa’s return also sends Winnipeg back to where it belongs — in the West Division, which once again has a five-team slate.

In the West, B.C., Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg will vie for three playoff spot. In the East, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton and Montreal will also battle for three playoff berths.

The B.C. Lions will first play the RedBlacks in Ottawa on Sept. 5, while fans at BC Place Stadium will get their first in-person look at the expansion squad on Oct.11.

For the record, the last time the Lions played an Ottawa CFL team, the date was Sept. 8, 2005. The place was Ottawa. And B.C. won big — 61-27.

The 2014 season is also a landmark campaign for the B.C. Lions.

If a recent tradition started by the Leos holds up, don’t be surprised to see the boys

in orange and black hoist Earl Grey’s Cup on Sunday, Nov. 30.

This year’s Grey Cup championship game is being staged in BC Place Stadium in Vancouver.

In 2011, the big game was also held in BC Place Stadium, with the Lions defeating Winnipeg.

The victory was the first

time a team had won the Grey Cup on its home field since 1994 — when B.C. defeated Baltimore under the Dome.

While 17 years passed between the Lions being the only teams to claim the Cup on home soil, B.C.’s 2011 victory has started a trend.

In 2012, Toronto won the Grey Cup at home.

In 2013, Saskatchewan was victorious at home.

Will 2014 see the Leos capture the seventh cham-pionship since their birth in 1954?

The answer to that press-ing question will begin to reveal itself on Friday, June 13, when B.C. opens the 2014 season with an exhibi-tion game in Edmonton.

With every game — including the two pre-season games — broadcast on TSN, football fans will have ample opportunity to get acquainted with familiar veterans (such as starting quarterback Travis Lulay, left) and fresh-faced rookies.

The 2014 schedule (below) consists of 18 reg-ular-season games and two pre-season contests.

Of note on this year’s schedule:

• June 28 vs. Edmonton: Playing the Evil Empire is always a fierce affair.

Promising Esks’ QB Mike Reilly is a former Lions’ pivot.

• July 19 vs. Montreal: The Als arrive with cel-ebrated former NFL WR star Chad Johnson (if he is still on the squad by this time, pending expected suspensions or decisions to join an arena league club).

• Aug. 24 vs. Sask-atchewan: The defending Grey Cup champs come to town, with the Lions knowing they dominated the Riders in last year’s Western semifinal in Regina — until the fourth quarter.

Will the Lions have extra incentive on this date?

B.C. Lions 2014 scheduleHome games in orange, road games in white, all games on TSN

Friday, June 13B.C. at Edmonton (exhibition)

6 p.m.

Friday, June 20Calgary at B.C. (exhibition)

7 p.m.

Saturday, June 28Edmonton at B.C.

3 p.m.

Friday, July 4B.C. at Montreal

4 p.m.

Saturday, July 12B.C. at Saskatchewan

6:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 19Montreal at B.C.

4 p.m.

Friday, July 25Winnipeg at B.C.

7 p.m.

Friday, August 1B.C. at Calgary

7 p.m.

Friday, August 8Hamilton at B.C.

7 p.m.

Sunday, August 17B.C. at Toronto

4:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 24Saskatchewan at B.C.

4 p.m.

Friday, September 5B.C. at Ottawa

4:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 13Winnipeg at B.C.

7 p.m.

Friday, September 19Toronto at B.C.

7 p.m.

Saturday, September 27B.C. at Calgary

6:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 4B.C. at Hamilton

4 p.m.

Saturday, October 11Ottawa at B.C.

7 p.m.

Saturday, October 25B.C. at Winnipeg

4 p.m.

Saturday, November 1B.C. at Edmonton

4 p.m.

Friday, November 7Calgary at B.C.

7 p.m.

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“As we were coming out on the field, like at introductions — actually it was after that, during the anthem — I remember looking up in the sky and looking at one of the clouds.

“I thought, that’s weird — to me, it really struck me that it was in the shape of the Grey Cup.

“Obviously, everyone sees what they want to see but, to me, it looked like the Grey Cup.

“I kind of said a little prayer and I took that to be a sign, to me, that we were meant to win the game and it was all going to be all right because, obviously, you know, you’re a little stressed before the game starts out and you want things to go your way.

“So, I saw the cloud and I had faith that, on this day, the victory would be ours.

“There’s my little peculiar Grey Cup history for you.”

“Well, the year itself, we had a great year to get into it. We had a great season with Joe [Kapp, quarterback] and Willie [Fleming, run-ning back] and everybody, Tom Brown.

“I guess, when we got going on during the course of the year, we figured, well, we’ve got a good chance.

“We had been to the Grey Cup in ’63, at home and lost it.

“The thing was, now, was to get into the Grey Cup and win it, which we did.

“We had some great players on the team and we put it all together at the right time.

“It’s expectation.“As a player, it’s not just another game,

obviously. You got there and the excitement to get to where you got to — a lot of the young guys were pretty excited, we all were excited to be there.

“And, of course, we were excited to win. “I guess, at the time, you’re excited and

all that but, when it’s all over, I guess it’s just another game.”

“One thing I always remember, I roomed with a guy named Vic Stevenson, who was a crusty old lineman, played in Saskatchewan for a many, many years and he had been in the league a long, long time.

“We were good roommates, we got along real well together and there were no issues.

“Just to give you the importance of the game, because it was the big Canadian-American thing,

of course we were both Canadians, proud Canadians and we didn’t want to lose the Cup to the United States and all that stuff.

“I remember they actually put us in a hotel downtown, I think it was the Hyatt, the night before the game. I remember waking up in the

morning and Vic’s gone. I’m like, ‘Where the heck is he?’ I thought maybe he got up early.

“But, I guess he was so pumped up about the game, so restless he couldn’t sleep, so he drove all the way back to Fort Langley to sleep, which was not like him at all because, you know, he’d been through a lot of these things, a lot of wars.

“Then the next day, carrying that forward, as they were playing the Canadian national anthem, we’re all getting fired up on the side-lines and I look over and see the tears streaming down Vic’s cheeks.

“Gave you the kind of feeling like, man, this is a big moment, this is important.”

“It was a very veteran team and we’d been together for a long time. We had lost in ’83 in front of our home fans by a single point, then the next year we lost in the Western Final to Winnipeg, our hated rivals at the time, and we were one of the winningest teams in the CFL.

“I guess the biggest standout is the team was very tight and close together, but we knew a lot

of us were at the end of our careers, right?

“The night is nigh, they say, and we knew this was our last shot at a championship together, so I guess that was the biggest driving motivation.

“A lot of times when you go into a championship game, you know there’s another year and a lot of us knew this could be our last shot at a championship.

“When I look back and I think about that team, it was very, very good, but that was one of the driving factors we talked about — this might be our last shot, guys, together, so that was the big motivation behind a lot of us.

“And when we won, we were happy and ecstatic and we were relieved.

“We had done what was expected, right? “We had been waiting for it for three years.”

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“I guess, for me, of course we had a lot of really good teams in that span from 2005 to 2008. Four years straight we had awesome teams. 2006 was the only year we won and I feel like it really had a lot to do with out chem-istry.

“So, one thing that stands out for me is just guys would stay after practice for hours. Like almost every day, the locker room would be full of guys ordering pizza, playing cards and just

really investing time with each other.“That was probably the closest-knit team

I’ve played on in my whole career.

“So, one memory that comes back to me is the locker room and, like I say, ordering pizzas and playing cards until, literally, Billy [head trainer Reichelt] and Kato [equipment manager Kasuya] had to kick us out of there, just to shut down the building.

“It was a routine thing almost every day. “Those types of things are really the differ-

entiators between a championship team and a really good team.”

2006 - Javier Glatt (LB)B.C. Lions 25, Montreal Alouettes 14

“Well, I mean, there’s the obvious — starting 0-5 and the way the guys rallied around each other.

“The one thing I can say is, I have never seen a team’s confidence swing more. When we were 0-5 and 1-6, we weren’t sure if we were ever going to win another game.

“And then, when we got into the Grey Cup, I’ll never forget the morning meeting of the game. So, we had a team meeting that morn-

ing in the hotel and Wally Buono got up and talked about the post-game, cham-pionship celebration we will have in the hotel because he already knows we’re going to win.

“We talked about what we would do after we won because we already knew we were going to win.

“I can’t stress how crazy it was, coming from 0-5, wonder-ing if we’d ever win another game, to getting ready for the Grey Cup game, having not a shadow of a doubt that we were going to win that cham-pionship.

“It was pretty fascinating to see that, in one season, swing that hard.”

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TRAVIS LULAY - QB

KTW says: Undisputed No. 1 at QB, but will need to stay sharp with the ageless Kevin Glenn in the backup role. In Calgary last year, Glenn (35 this month) showed he is still a premier pivot. How well Lulay responds to off-season shoulder surgery on his labrum is the team’s foremost question that will be answered.

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PAUL MCCALLUM - K, RICKY SCHMITT - P

KTW says: The Lions are giving McCallum’s 44-year-old leg a rest by signing former Saskatchewan Roughrider punter Schmitt to handle kickoffs and punts. McCallum will focus on field goals. If McCallum is out of range on three-point attempts, the 28-year-old Schmitt should be more than able as he is the all-time leader in field goals at NCAA Division II Shepherd University in West Virginia.

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COURTNEY TAYLOR - SB

KTW says: With Nick Moore gone to Winnipeg, Taylor has the chance to become the Lions’ go-to receiver for many years to come. The Lions are deep at receiver, with talented imports and Canadians, but Taylor’s speed (4.5s/40) and size (six-foot-two, 204 pounds) complement his impressive 36-inch vertical reach. Watch for Taylor to eclipse 1,500 yards and assume the mantle vacated by legend Geroy Simon.


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LIONS TO WATCHThe 2014 B.C. Lions’ coaching staff is led by head coach Mike Benevides and includes Joe Paopao, a name familiar to those who followed the Leos in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Paopao was QB from 1978 to 1982 and in 1990 and was on the coaching staff in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999 and 2000.

THE STAFFHead coach: Mike Benevides (11th year on staff; third as HC)Defensive co-ordinator: Mark Washington (seventh year on staff; first as DC)Offensive co-ordinator/QB coach: Khari Jones (first season on staff)Special teams co-ordinator: Chuck McMann (seventh season as STC)Offensive line coach: Dan Dorazio (12th season as OLC)Running backs coach: Kelly Bates (fourth year on staff; third as RBC)Receivers coach: Joe Paopao (fourth stint with club; first year as RC)Defensive line coach: Carl Hairston (third season as DLC)Linebackers coach: Johnny Holland (first season on staff)

LEADING THE PRIDE

KHALIF MITCHELL - DT

KTW says: The veteran defensive tackle is a huge talent — and can be big trouble. Mitchell had problems on and off the field during his last stint with B.C. (suspended for dirty play and fined for racist tweets) before being traded to Toronto. The Lions brought him back as a free agent and Mitchell has thus far said all the right things. Let’s see if his on-and-off-field actions match his words. And, let’s see if peace can be brokered with Harris.

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ANDREW HARRIS - RB

KTW says: The pride of Winnipeg via the junior football Vancouver Island Raiders, the RB had a tough season in 2013 following his breakout 2012 campaign. Look for Harris to return to dominant form as he attempts to elbow aside Stampeder RB John Cornish as the West’s best at that position. And, will Harris and Khalif Mitchell play nice? Remember, when the Lions traded Mitchell to Toronto between the 2012 and 2013 seasons, Harris tweeted, “Good rid-dance!!!!”

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