It is late in the third quarter of the Grey Cup. For US readers, that is the final in the oldest football championship in North America - 91 years. Sure our players are not as good as NFL players but the rules...rule. Big, big field. NFL gives the team in possession 4 chances to get the ball forward ten yards while the CFL only gives three.

The other thing is, of course, the weather. Look at a map. North in the NFL is Green Bay, Wisc. The Grey Cup is being held today in Regina Saskatchewan where the sun goes down about 2 pm these days. Already both Montreal and Edmonton have changed their shoes as a team to match ice conditions.

The points get weird. Montreal scored one point in the third quarter. I think you get one points for "the rouge" but I am not sure why. It gets like watching baseball - things as odd as stealing home on a squeeze happen. Once in the mid-70's a punting duel broke out at the end of a semi-final. The score is 22 to 24 going into the fourth so I expect things are going to get good and weird soon. Not as weird as Baltimore winning it one year but still pretty weird.