OTD in Blue Bombers History Sept 10, 1995 Troy Westwood’s 27 Yd FG with 1:03 left lifts Bombers to 25-24 win over the Roughriders. However it was ‘Lefty’s’ trickery that was the story as Westwood scores the only touchdown of his career on a 11 Yd run off a fake field goal

Great Challenge by O'Shea and the Command Centre screws up again.

Command Centre makes the right call. Finally.....

I thought Wilson made a football move before ball was knocked loose

Zach Collaros finally leads the Bomber offense to the end zone hitting Kenny Lawler for the game winning touchdown with 19 seconds left. On game winning drive Cats called for illegal contact and on the TSN replay it didn't look like it. 26-23 victory but not a satisfying win.

OTD in Blue Bombers History Sept 1, 1985. Labour pains for Tom Clements as was intercepted 3 times by the Roughriders. But just before halftime Clements throws a strike to Jeff Boyd for a 105 Yd TD in 18-10 win. The second longest regular season TD pass in Bombers history.

Roughriders have converted last 7 second downs including 2 for touchdowns and in each occasion Bombers only rushed 3. Give Trevor Harris time and he’ll pick you apart. 14-7 Riders

Surprised Zach still on sideline after that hit to his head. Shouldn’t he be in concussion protocol?

Blue Bombers survive Zach Collaros injury and hang on to beat Roughriders 35-33 to move into first place in the West. Riders stopped on 2 point convert and Lauther came up short on 60 yd FG attempt. But costly win with injury to Collaros and Adam Bighill.

Chris Strevler is not the greatest at throwing the football but he did pass the ball a lot in 2019. Now in 2024 there seems to be no desire by OC Buck Pierce to let him throw the ball further than 10 yards downfield.

OTD in Blue Bombers History Sept. 4, 1978 in a Classic v the Roughriders, that was actually played on Labour Day Monday, RB Richard Crump dominates. Crump scored 2 TDs, had over a hundred yards both rushing and receiving including a Bomber record run of 103 yards in 31-29 victory

And I didn't have space to mention his 30 yards in punt returns for a total of 275 All Purpose Yards for that game.

OTD in Blue Bombers History Sept 7, 1984 a record night for the offence v the Rough Riders. They scored TDs on first 6 possessions. Clements had 5 TD passes. Hufnagel 2. Boyd and Reaves scored 3 TDs each and Reaves tied club mark for rushing yards with 221 in blowout 65-25 win

The 65 points scored v Rough Riders were a new team record that was surpassed in 1991 in 68-14 win over Ti-Cats. The 9 touchdowns tied club record set in 1959 in win over the Roughriders. While Trevor Kennerd’s 9 converts was a new Bomber benchmark and still is the record today

Congrats to Mike O’Shea now the winningest head coach for the regular season in Blue Bombers history after 26-21 win over the Roughriders in Banjo Bowl. O’Shea with 103 wins 1 more than Bud Grant. Include playoff and Grey Cup wins The ‘Silver Fox’ has 122 to O’Shea’s 111.

OTD in Blue Bombers History Sept 9, 1991 with place kicker Trevor Kennerd unable to play because of two bone fractures in his back rookie Troy Westwood is named to replace him. The 24 year old Westwood was the Bombers 6th round pick in ‘91 CFL Draft

OTD in Jets History Sept 9, 1994. A homecoming for Teemu Selanne as Jets open exhibition season in Finland v Tappara. It’s Selanne’s first game back since a season ending Achilles tendon injury. The ‘Finnish Flash’ gives fans what they came to see with 4 goals in 8-2 Jets win.

OTD in Blue Bombers History Sept 13, 1998 the Roughriders are up 18 and 18 minutes away from handing winless Bombers their 11th loss of season. In a desperate move coach Jeff Reinebold replaces QB TJ Rubley with Troy Kopp who sparks an incredible comeback in memorable 36-35 win

In those 18 minutes of his CFL debut Troy Kopp completed 11 of 15 passes for 171 yards and 2 touchdowns with no interception. Kopp also ran for 19 yards in the victory. TJ Rubley was released soon afterwards and unfortunately Kopp never performed to these heights again.

OTD in Jets History Sept 18, 1983. It’s the second game of the NHL exhibition season and Dale Hawerchuk is already in mid season form. Hawerchuk sets up the first two goals and then scores three himself for a 5 point night in 8-2 Jets romp over the Los Angeles Kings