The Grey Cup has been putting on some serious kilometres this offseason with the reigning CFL champion Saskatchewan Roughriders by its side.
Back on February 3 the Grey Cup made an appearance in Kenaston as member of the Roughriders Board of Directors Mackenzie Kilshaw brought the cup back to her former school. That joined an appearance a week later at each school in Outlook, both LCBI and OHS students able to spend some time with the cup and grab pictures.
Those dates joined an official community cup tour stop in North Battleford to represent the only stops around the West Central region so far, and the ever-updating list does not show any local stops coming up as of February 26.
The tour started in Humboldt, and then Nipawin, before moving to Logan Ferland’s hometown of Melfort and the nearby James Smith Cree Nation. After the initial stops the tour went to major cities like Prince Albert, Saskatoon, Regina, Weyburn, Estevan, Meadow Lake, and as mentioned North Battleford. Now appearances in March will be sending the Grey Cup to the southeast part of the province, leaving West Central wondering when and if the Grey Cup will be coming before it has to be returned to the CFL.
One of the most notable stops on the tour so far was in Melfort where the Roughriders all-star Ferland played his high school football.
While Ferland is Melfort through-and-through, it would be remiss not to mention Ferland’s deep West Central Saskatchewan ties, the hulking centre spending his elementary school years growing up in Kindersley before moving to Melfort around high school.
Just like Melfort, Kindersley along with the entire West Central region want the chance to cheer on Ferland as one of their own, #63 himself doing what he can to try and make a stop in his first home.
We have it on good authority that Roughriders #63 Logan Ferland wants to bring the cup to Kindersley (Photo via Saskatchewan Roughriders)