2018 MEDIA GUIDE GAME SCHEDULE 2018 GAME SCHEDULE PRE-SEASON PS-A FRIDAY, JUNE 1 EDMONTON VS WINNIPEG 7:30PM PS-B Friday, June 8 WINNIPEG @ B.C. 9:30PM WEEK DATE GAME WPG TIME 1 THURSDAY, JUNE 14 EDMONTON VS WINNIPEG 7:30PM 2 Friday, June 22 Winnipeg @ Montreal 6:00PM 3 Friday, June 29 Winnipeg @ Hamilton 6:00PM 4 SATURDAY, JULY 7 B.C. VS WINNIPEG 7:30PM 5 Saturday, July 14 Winnipeg @ B.C. 9:00PM 6 Saturday, July 21 Winnipeg @ Toronto 3:00PM 7 FRIDAY, JULY 27 TORONTO VS WINNIPEG 7:30PM 8 BYE WEEK 9 FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 HAMILTON VS WINNIPEG 7:30PM 10 FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 OTTAWA VS WINNIPEG 7:30PM 11 Saturday, August 25 Winnipeg @ Calgary 2:30PM 12 Sunday, September 2 Winnipeg @ Saskatchewan 2:00PM 13 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 SASKATCHEWAN VS WINNIPEG 3:00PM 14 BYE WEEK 15 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 MONTREAL VS WINNIPEG 7:30PM 16 Saturday, September 29 Winnipeg @ Edmonton 6:00PM 17 Friday, October 5 Winnipeg @ Ottawa 6:30PM 18 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 SASKATCHEWAN VS WINNIPEG 1:00PM 19 BYE WEEK 20 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 CALGARY VS WINNIPEG 7:30PM 21 Saturday November 3 Winnipeg @ Edmonton 3:00PM CFL PLAYOFFS P1 Sunday, November 11 Eastern Semi-Final TBD P1 Sunday, November 11 Western Semi-Final TBD P2 Sunday, November 18 Eastern Final TBD P2 Sunday, November 18 Western Final TBD GREY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP P3 Sunday, November 25 106th Grey Cup TBD * All Blue Bomber home games in bold. BLUEBOMBERS.COM 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE TABLE OF CONTENTS 2018 Game Schedule .................................................... 1 RECORDS 2018 Corporate Partners ............................................... 3 Regular Season All-Time Record Summary ................ 114 Media Policy .................................................................. 4 All-Time Regular Season Results – Since 1990 .......... 116 Executive ....................................................................... 6 Regular Season Statistics – 1950 to 2017 ................. 120 Football Operations: Regular Season Team Records – Since 1936 ............. 123 Management .............................................................. 8 Regular Season Individual Records – Since 1936 ...... 128 Coaches .................................................................... 12 Post-Season Single-Game Records ............................ 140 Staff .......................................................................... 19 Post-Season History .................................................. 141 Broadcasters ............................................................... 21 Yearly Team Leaders .................................................. 144 Yearly Divisional & League Leaders ........................... 148 PLAYERS Playoff Team Records – Since 1933 ........................... 149 Players Index ............................................................... 22 All-Time Grey Cup Results ......................................... 150 Veterans ...................................................................... 23 Head Coaching Records ............................................ 152 Newcomers ................................................................. 75 Service Leaders – 7+ Seasons ................................... 153 All-Time Grey Cup Roster .......................................... 154 Draft Picks – 1956 to 2018 ....................................... 156 2017 IN REVIEW All-Time Regular Season Attendance Records – Schedule & Game Results ........................................... 84 Since 1936 .............................................................. 160 Game Summaries ........................................................ 85 Game-by-Game Team Statistics ................................. 104 vs. the CFL ................................................................. 106 CFL Yardstick & Scoring Summary ................................... 107 2018 CFL Schedule .................................................... 164 Team & Individual Statistics ...................................... 108 CFL Opponents: Game Participation ................................................... 111 West Division .......................................................... 165 Starters ..................................................................... 112 East Division ........................................................... 167 AWARDS & ALL-STARS All-Time CFL Awards ................................................. 170 All-Time Team Awards ............................................... 171 Divisional All-Stars .................................................... 174 CFL All-Stars .............................................................. 176 Winnipeg Football Club Members in Canadian Football Hall of Fame .............................. 177 Winnipeg Football Club Hall of Fame Players .................................................................... 178 Builders................................................................... 180 2 2018 BLUE BOMBER MEDIA GUIDE 2018 PARTNERS 2018 2018 CORPORATE PARTNERS BUILDERS Bell MTS Lawson Corus Radio Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries G3 Canada Limited Nissan Canada Inc. Investors Group PepsiCo Beverages Canada Kubota Pizza Hotline Labatt Breweries SkipTheDishes of Canada (Budweiser) Winnipeg Free Press PARTNERS adidas MacDon Industries Bayer Manitoba Hydro Boeing Canada Old Dutch Foods CBCRA/Recycle Everywhere Payworks DMS Industrial Constructors Inc. PINNACLE GFL Environmental Inc. Promotivate Gordon Food Service Purolator Inc. Great-West Life Salisbury House Restaurants IBAM Subway Jim Beam The Dufresne Group Johnston Group Tim Hortons Kal Tire Winnipeg Airports Authority Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd. SUPPORTERS Abell Pest Control Four Points by Sheraton Prairie Mobile Communications Accurate Dorwin Inc. Winnipeg South Pratts Wholesale Access Storage & PUPS Granny’s Poultry Red River Mutual Anderson’s Hitch ‘n Post Ranch Hertz Equipment Rentals Remax Group Arthur J. Gallagher In Motion Network Advertising Committee Barkman Concrete Laser Away Rocky Road Recycling Barley Brothers Manitoba Blue Cross SAFE Work Manitoba Bayview Construction Manitoba Cattle Star Building Materials Bee2Gether Bikes Producers Association Tache Pharmacy Booster Juice Manitoba Chiropractors The Canadian Brewhouse Boston Pizza Association The Keg Steakhouse & Bar Boyd Autobody & Glass Manitoba Teacher Society United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg Cavendish Farms Mark’s Valard Construction LP Certified Green Cleaning Marr Industrial Coatings Inc Vector Construction Ltd. Continental Travel Memory Express Viterra CPHR Manitoba Merit Contractors Volume Freight Crescent Point Energy Corp. Association of Manitoba Wesclean Crystal Sound MNP LLP Westcon Equipment Danny’s Whole Hog Mr. Lube and Rentals Ltd. Barbeque and Smokehouse NorthStar Genetics Western Marble & Tile Dave’s Quick Print PATTISON Outdoor Advertising Weston Foods DOMO PCM Canada Winkler Meats Enns Brothers Penn-Co Construction Canada Winnipeg Moving & Storage E & J Gallo Winery (2003) Ltd Winnipeg Police Association BLUEBOMBERS.COM 3 MEDIA POLICY MEDIA POLICY FOR ALL MEDIA INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT: DARREN CAMERON SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AND PLAYER RELATIONS Office: 204-784-7422 Cell: 204-292-9587 [email protected] WINNIPEG FOOTBALL CLUB MEDIA POLICY STATEMENT: The Winnipeg Football Club strives to provide members of the local and national broadcast, print and online media with proper access and resources for an effective working environment. Please note that due to partnership agreements, broadcast rights holders will receive priority when reviewing media requests. All interviews, whether by phone or in person, must be approved by the organization’s Senior Director of Public and Player Relations, Darren Cameron. The Club respectfully asks media to not contact players, coaches, management, or Board Members without prior consent. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers reserve the right to enforce guidelines by way of revoking credentials or limiting access to Investors Group Field. ATTENDING PRACTICE: Members of the media ACCESS TO HEAD COACH MIKE O’SHEA: will receive a weekly practice schedule with specific Head Coach Mike O’Shea will be available to the practice times. With the exception of the allotted media after practice each day in the Blue Bombers’ filming time, media are asked to observe Press Room. Media are encouraged to attend this practice from the stands and remain off the daily press briefing to collect all audio/video with sidelines during practice. The Club asks that media Coach O’Shea, as his availability outside of that do not approach players, coaches, or any team time is very limited. Radio rights holder 680 CJOB personnel during practice. The bench area is off-limits will have access to Coach O’Shea prior to the media to all media personnel, including videographers and briefing. Coach O’Shea will not be available on any photographers, at all times unless otherwise stated. other live program the same day as his Coaches No exceptions will be permitted. Investors Group Show with the radio rights holder. Coordinators and Field will open to fans and the media ten minutes assistant coaches will be available to media once per prior to the start of the scheduled practice time. week, as indicated on the media schedule. FILMING PRACTICE: Camera persons will only be TEAM EXECUTIVES: President and Chief allowed to film and/or photograph certain portions Executive Officer Wade Miller, (as well as all other of practice. These designated times will be available team management) will be available upon request.