“One. Damn. Chance.” Twenty-five years later, those three words still resonate with members of the Calgary Stampeders' 1998 Grey Cup champion team that will be honoured during Friday's game versus the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at McMahon Stadium.
Aug 16, 2023 at 12:49 PM ETTwenty-five years later, those three words still resonate with members of the Calgary Stampeders' 1998 Grey Cup champion team that will be honoured during Friday's game versus the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at McMahon Stadium. Ahead of the 1998 championship game in Winnipeg against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats , first-year offensive line coach Dan Dorazio delivered a rousing pre-game speech that still gives Stamps alumni chills.
After that 1992 Grey Cup win, the Stamps finished first in the West Division the following four seasons and won a combined 57 regular season games, plus a second-place showing in 1997, but had fallen short of another title. Those Stampeders teams, led by coach Wally Buono and featuring the likes of Doug Flutie, Allen Pitts, and Alondra Johnson, felt they could have and should have won more.
“It was one of the most intense speeches I’d ever heard,” McNeil said. “Guys were truly ready to run through the wall…[the message] was along the lines of, ‘How long will it be acceptable to not win the championship? Or are we going to change that today? It was a great message because we had come up short.”
“You always prepared to the point that it allowed you to be very confident,” Forde said, crediting Buono.
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