Should Have Been Winners : CFL
The Grey Cup is played every year (well, not 2020...), and every year there is a winner. The right team doesn't always win though. No, sometimes the universe makes a mistake and the wrong team wins. But how do we know who these "Misplaced Winners" are?
Well, this blog circles around one thing, and that's the Iowa Connection. So, obviously every Grey Cup champion should have at least one Iowa Connection, but not every one does. Either I've missed the connection (possible!), or the universe messed up. Thanos snapped his fingers and the Toronto Argonauts won. So lets look at those Iowa-less Grey Cup champions and see who it should have been.
If this universe happened, here are number of titles these Iowa Connections would have gained (2+):
- 5 - Bill Briggs, Iowa
- 2 - Jeff Braswell, Iowa State
- 2 - D.J. Johnson, Iowa
- 2 - Jovon Johnson, Iowa
- 2 - Wayne Sheley, Lone Tree
Note : Of the 82 Grey Cup Championships covered here, 23 have been Iowa-less. (Maybe less, I'm always finding connections)
Note 2: 1970 was removed (Bob Ward, ISU)
Note 3: 1994 was removed (Trent Green, Cedar Rapids)
Note 4: 2013 was removed (Todd Howard, Grinnell)
2019
Wrong Winner : Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Correct Winner : Edmonton Eskimos
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Tevaun Smith, Iowa
2015
Wrong Winner : Edmonton Eskimos
Correct Winner : Ottawa Redblacks
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Jovon Johnson, Iowa
- Nolan MacMillan, Iowa
- Jacques Washington, Iowa State
2011
Wrong Winner : BC Lions
Correct Winner : Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Jovon Johnson, Iowa
2006
Wrong Winner : Saskatchewan Roughriders
Correct Winner : Calgary Stampeders
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Sheldon Napastuk, Iowa State
- Beau Gibbs, Northern Iowa
2004
Wrong Winner : Toronto Argonauts
Correct Winner : Montreal Alouettes
Iowan who should've been champs :
- D.J. Johnson, Iowa
- Darren Davis, Iowa State
2003
Wrong Winner : Edmonton Eskimos
Correct Winner : Montreal Alouettes
Iowan who should've been champs :
- D.J. Johnson, Iowa
1992
Wrong Winner : Calgary Stampeders
Correct Winner : Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Iowan who should've been champs :
- John Gregory, Northern Iowa
1990
Wrong Winner : Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Correct Winner : Edmonton Eskimos
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Todd Smith, Morningside
- Jeff Braswell, Iowa State
1988
Wrong Winner : Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Correct Winner : BC Lions
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Jeff Braswell, Iowa State
- Larry Crawford, Iowa State
1971
Wrong Winner : Calgary Stampeders
Correct Winner : Toronto Argonauts
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Peter Paquette, Iowa
- Jim Henderson, Simpson
1966
Wrong Winner : Saskatchewan Roughriders
Correct Winner : Ottawa Rough Riders
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Jay Roberts, Des Moines
1963
Wrong Winner : Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Correct Winner : BC Lions
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Willie Fleming, Iowa
- Tom Walker, Iowa
1957
Wrong Winner : Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Correct Winner : Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Ken Ploen, Iowa
- Leo Lewis, Des Moines
- Frank Gilliam, Iowa
- Wayne Robinson, Iowa
1953
Wrong Winner : Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Correct Winner : Edmonton Eskimos
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Bill Briggs, Iowa
1952
Wrong Winner : Toronto Argonauts
Correct Winner : Edmonton Eskimos
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Dick Steele, Drake
- Bill Briggs, Iowa
1950
Wrong Winner : Toronto Argonauts
Correct Winner : Edmonton Eskimos
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Bill Briggs, Iowa
1949
Wrong Winner : Montreal Alouettes
Correct Winner : Toronto Argonauts
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Bill Briggs, Iowa
1948
Wrong Winner : Calgary Stampeders
Correct Winner : Toronto Argonauts
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Bill Briggs, Iowa
1942/1943/1944
1940
Wrong Winner : Ottawa Rough Riders
Correct Winner : Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Wayne Sheley, Lone Tree
1938
Wrong Winner : Toronto Argonauts
Correct Winner : Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Iowan who should've been champs :
- Wayne Sheley, Lone Tree
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