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How’s this for a shocker? The top-spot Calgary Stampeders.
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It wasn’t what many fans — if any — expected to see from a team in transition coming into the 2025 Canadian Football League campaign.
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Yet after Saturday’s smoke-delayed — and dominate — victory over the host Saskatchewan Roughriders, there are the Stampeders on top of the CFL standings with a surprising 4-1 record.
It’s the second straight week the Stamps have knocked off an unbeaten team on the schedule — this one in 24-10 fashion at Regina’s Mosaic Stadium.
“We came up with the win,” an excited Stampeders rookie receiver Damien Alford, one of the stars of the triumph in Saskatchewan, told QR Calgary post-game.
“We’ve put ourselves in the mindset that no matter who was in front of us, we just have to go out there and play our type of football — and that’s exactly what we did.”
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Indeed, a week after dispatching of the undefeated Winnipeg Blue Bombers on the home turf of McMahon Stadium, the Stamps travelled to Regina to play the 4-0 Roughriders as the heavy underdog again.
When they arrived Friday, however, they were met not only by long odds but a smoke delay that created a health hazard and persisted throughout the evening, postponing the game overnight.
But that didn’t distract the Red and White from going out and continuing to prove they have quickly meshed into a strong CFL side — solid enough to get the mighty road win and climb into first place in not only the West Division but the entire league.
“We’re happy,” added Alford. “But we know we’re still early in the season and we’ve still got more to do.”
MORE TO COME …
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