Eskimos edge Bombers 33-30 in CFL’s second-longest game in history
WINNIPEG — You wouldn’t think a field-goal kicker would have the greatest focus at 1 a.m., but Sean Whyte did.
The Edmonton Eskimos’ 10-year veteran booted a 44-yard field goal with eight seconds to go to lift his team to a 33-30 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers early Friday in the longest continuous game in CFL history, and second-longest overall.
“I felt like I was going to go to sleep at one point,” Whyte said of the game that ended at 1:18 a.m. CT after two weather delays because of lightning.
But “once you get out in that situation, the adrenalin’s flowing so much — all the soreness, stiffness, the whole day kind of just vanishes and it’s all about that one play.”