Storm delays in season opener just another chapter in CFL’s weird weather history
Nasty weather and the Canadian Football League have a long history together.
Another chapter was written at the regular season opener that began on Thursday night but didn’t end until 1:17 a.m. local time on Friday.
The Edmonton Eskimos topped the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 33-30 on Sean Whyte’s last-minute field goal in a game that took five hours 40 minutes to play — the longest continuous game and second longest overall in league history.
The game was interrupted twice in the second quarter by severe thunderstorms, the first for 84 minutes and the second for 94 minutes.