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• Ray is the only quarterback to have won four Grey Cup games as a starter. However, Warren Moon was the difference-making quarterback in four consecutive Grey Cup victories (1979, 1980, 1981, 1982) by the Edmonton Eskimos. In 1979, Moon took over from starter Tom Wilkinson and helped Edmonton rally from a 9-7 deficit against the Montreal Alouettes. The game-winning touchdown was courtesy of a 33-yard pass from Moon to Tommy Scott. Edmonton won the next three Grey Cup games, extending its CFL-record championship streak to five, with Moon as the starter.

• Oddly enough, the snowy conditions during Sunday’s Grey Cup game became a reason not to begin the CFL season a few weeks earlier. The event, which included Shania Twain being transported to the stage via dogsled, was a postcard for Canadian professional football.

• The CFL released an official list of free agents on Thursday. The one must-sign from the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ perspective: Duron Carter. Feed him some more money — including movie passes, if necessary — and the football. The Roughriders’ Chris Jones has established that he, above all others, is the ideal coach to handle the controversial Carter.

• Randy Ambrosie should be named the CFL’s commissioner for life.

• I fail to grasp why any coach, in any sport, at any level, needs to use expletives in the presence of a teenaged athlete. And why do volcanic hockey parents feel the need to scream at teenaged hockey officials?