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#65 Nick Bastaja was acquired in a trade with the Argonauts in 1980.

Nick Bastaja played OG for the Blue Bombers (1980-1988)
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1st & 10 | Kramdi: "I want to stay around football." - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Redha Kramdi fears absolutely nothing on the football field. Period. Full stop. Time and time again over his career with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers he’s repeatedly shown he’s more than willing to attac...

1st & 10 : Redha Kramdi

🔹️return to school
🔹️CFL internship program
🔹️life after football

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#66 Stanley Bryant

Stanley Bryant is a 4 time winner of the #CFL Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman
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OTD in Blue Bombers History March 6, 1989 and Grey Cup winning head coach Mike Riley is back. In mid February Riley stepped down to become the Defensive Coordinator at Stanford. But something didn’t feel right and to the delight of Bomber fans Riley had a change of heart

The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today they have acquired defenceman Jacob Bryson, forward Isak Rosén, Buffalo’s second-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft, and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft in exchange for defencemen Luke Schenn and Logan Stanley. The conditional fourth-round pick is the better of the Sabres’ own fourth-round or the Edmonton Oilers’ fourth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. The Jets retain 50% of Schenn’s contract as part of the trade.

We have acquired :

🏒 D Jacob Bryson
🏒 F Isak Rosén
📰 2027 2nd round pick
📰 2026 4th round pick*

from the Buffalo Sabres for Luke Schenn and Logan Stanley.

#67 Frank Rigney is 'officially' credited with playing 15 games in 1959. The game he 'missed' was the August 17, 1959 game in Calgary. The Winnipeg Free Press showed a picture of Rigney in the sports section and the article talks about how Rigney moved to Offensive End after Frank Gilliam was injured. The 'game played' error is the result of 'research' based on the roster published in newspapers. Based on article published in the same newspapers and backed up by video, there are numerous errors in the published roster for the Blue & Gold for that game.

#67 Frank Rigney in the 1961 Grey Cup. The lightning bolt was the first helmet logo used by the Blue Bombers but only lasted for one season.

Frank Rigney anchored the LT position for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for 10 seasons (1958-1967)
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OTD in Jets History March 5, 1988. Another big night for Dale Hawerchuk and Jets against the Maple Leafs. Hawerchuk ties Jets record for points in a game with 6 in 10-1 win. The 2nd of 3 times Ducky would have a half dozen points in a game and all were v Maple Leafs in Toronto

#68 Nick Benjamin

Nick Benjamin played 5 seasons for the Blue Bombers (1989-1993)

The play I remember most was a rookie Benjamin chasing down CB David Shaw from behind on a 108 yard interception return.

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A couple of #CFL retirements announced

🔹️Lorenzo Mauldin
🔹️Sean Thomas Erlington

The play that crashed the #CFL stats system in 2011

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Unfortunately, the ‘By Rule’ rule still prevails, which results in some oddball play scoring.

The newer stats systems treat each play as a series of events. The stats system will determine who gets credits for a score based on who had possession during the scoring event.

Since then, the CFL has adopted 2 new stats systems. CFL Connect (used 2016-2022) probably would have been able to score the play properly. CFL Live Stats (2023-present) can score the offensive stats properly as long as the fumble recovery is scored as the goal line.

As a result of this play, a ‘By Rule’ rule was established for any ball that is fumbled into the opposing team’s end zone. The change of possession is deemed to have happened at the 1 yard line to avoid the issue of crashing the stats system.

The ‘solution’ to the problem was to give Volny a 6 yard run to the T1 then enter a lateral to January who then got credit for 1 yard rushing and the rushing TD. The fumble & OTFR were added to a previous play with a note indicating that those details actually belonged on the scoring play.

Back then, stats details were entered for the play and a scoring time was entered to generate the score. The stats system would then determine what type of score was made & who to apply the score to. There was no option to credit the score to a specific player.

When the play was entered properly, the stats system gave Volny with a 7 yard TD run. It then threw up and crashed because it didn’t know how to treat the fumble on the play.

Any yardage (TD) gained by the recovering player will accrue in the same category that the original ball carrier accumulated yards in prior to the fumble.

In the CFL, when a ball is fumbled, the ball carrier is credited with any yardage gained/lost while the ball bounces to the point of recovery. The player who recovers the ball gets credit with an own team fumble recovery.

Carl Volny carried the ball from T7 to T4 where he fumbled. The ball bounced into the end zone and was recovered by Glenn January at the -10

Proper scoring would result in a 7 yard rush & a fumble for Volny , while January would be credited with an OTFR & a rushing TD with 0 yards gained

#69 Glenn January celebrates his only CFL TD This is the play that crashed the CFL stats system

Glenn January celebrates his only CFL TD, scored September 24, 2011 when he recovered a Carl Volny fumble 10 yards deep in the Argos’ end zone

All attempts to properly score this resulted in the TD being awarded to Volny and then the stats system would crash!

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🧵 Here are the details

British Columbia adopts permanent daylight savings time.

Clocks will move forward for the final time March 8, 2026 as the province will permanently set time to UTC -7.

This change became law in 2019.

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#70 Jeff Boyd returned to the Blue Bombers midway through the 1986 season. He joined a receiving corps that included three 1000 yard receivers (Murphy, Tuttle & Poplawski). Boyd accumulated 619 yards in just 7 games that year.

#70 Mike Holmes was a favourite target of Dieter Brock 1977-1982. Unfortunately a serious injury limited his 1981 season to a few plays and he was never 100% when he returned in 1982.

Back in the days when your star receivers wore numbers in the 70s

Jeff Boyd & Mike Holmes both both ran routes from the WR position.

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Farrell Funston wore #10 in the Fog Bowl. Hamilton had an OT wear an eligible number which allowed them to run a tackle eligible play by shifting players around. When the CFL chose to permit this, the Blue Bombers chose to fight fire with fire by doing the same with OT Frank Rigney. Neither team used the tackle eligible play in the game.

Farrell Funston wore #71 for all but one game as a Blue Bomber. In the 1962 Grey Cup, Funston wore #10 while OT Frank Rigney wore Funston's #71.

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#71 Farrell Funston celebrates a win in the 1961 Grey Cup Funston became a Canadian citizen on July 21, 1965 allowing him to qualify as a Naturalized Canadian. The CFL ended the program a day or two later making him the last player to qualify as an American non-import. Existing players, including Funston, had their status grandfathered.

Ceremony at the Winnipeg Arena for the 1962 Grey Cup champions. Here he is saluted by the Majorettes.

Farrell 'Fungy' Funston played 8 seasons for the Blue Bombers (1959-1965).

He was the first Blue Bomber to play split end when the team adopted a more modern offence in 1964

He became a 🇨🇦 citizen July 21, 1965, making him the last CFL player to qualify as a Naturalized Canadian

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#72 Delbert Fowler

#72 Leo Ezerins

A couple of popular LBs wore #72 for the Blue Bombers in the 1980s

Delbert Fowler (1984, 1986-1988) had 26 sacks in 53 games

Leo Ezerins (1978-1982) started his career as a TE before switching to LB

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#73 Cec (Cecil) Luining came to the Blue Bombers through the Winnipeg high school system. He played for Daniel McIntyre

🇨🇦 DE Cec Luining played 10 seasons for the Blue & Gold
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Black History Month Feature: Richie Hall - Winnipeg Blue Bombers During Black History Month this February bluebombers.com will once again salute some of the players who have played significant roles in the Blue Bombers’ long history. Our final instalment of 2026… T...

Black History Month - Richie Hall
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🔹️links to 12 other Black History Month features at end of this article

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Tom Miner #74 celebrates his last play 43 yard FG against the Calgary Stampeders. With him are QB Eagle Day #83 and OL Buddy Alliston #54. Miner's job was on the line as teams had to reduce their American rosters by September 1. Re the game winning kick. A young John Wells was sitting in the press box with 'Cactus' Jack wells. He was the first to point out the the Blue Bombers had 13 players on the field. Fortunately, the officials did not catch it.

#74 Troy Westwood

A couple of Winnipeg Blue Bombers kickers wore #74.

Tom Miner solidified his spot on the 1956 team when kicked a last play 43 yard FG to defeat his former team - Calgary

Troy Westwood bookended his career in #74 (1991-95 & 2009). He scored his only TD on a fake FG in 1995.

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#75 Tommy Lumsden passed away June 24, 1955. His number was taken out of circulation until the mid 1960s. It was again removed from circulation prior to the 1987 season. Stan Mikawos was the last player to wear #75 in 1986. Mikawos switched to #77 in 1987.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers don't retire numbers but #75 has been not been available since 1987.

It was pulled from circulation in honour of Tommy Lumsden who passed away suddenly June 24, 1955 after emergency gallbladder surgery.

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Bud Grant wore #76 for 3 seasons (1954-1956). He wore #78 in 1953. On October 28, 1953 he set a playoff record by intercepting 5 passes in a single game.

Bud Grant accumulated 3200 yards receiving in 4 seasons as an offensive end with the Blue Bombers (1953-1956)

He holds a playoff record with 5 interceptions in one game

After an early retirement, Grant went on to a Hall of Fame career as a coach in the #CFL & #NFL

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