{"id":285429,"date":"2025-11-15T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285429\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:58:09","slug":"free-press-presents-cflaa-legends-luncheon-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285429\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Press presents CFLAA Legends Luncheon \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special guests, football fan favourites and over 60 CFLAA alumni gathered Friday at the RBC Convention Centre to celebrate alumni achievements and the Indigenous Champion of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Grey Cup luncheon event, presented by the Free Press, also featured a silent auction with its proceeds supporting the CFLAA Alumni Support Fund and Winnipeg Blue Bombers Alumni, helping former players and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees were encouraged to wear their beloved CFL team\u2019s colours and engage with all of the stars at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251114-standup-CFLAA-Legends-Luncheon-0007.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1020\" data-pswp-height=\"680\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251114-standup-CFLAA-Legends-Luncheon-0007.jpg\" alt=\"Former Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver, Steve Mazurak, with his wife Heather (left) and his 96-year-old mother-in-law, Brenda Thomson and the Grey Cup at the CFLAA Legends Luncheon Friday. (Mike Deal \/ Free Press)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFormer Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver, Steve Mazurak, with his wife Heather (left) and his 96-year-old mother-in-law, Brenda Thomson and the Grey Cup at the CFLAA Legends Luncheon Friday. (Mike Deal \/ Free Press) <\/p>\n<p>Free Press CEO Mike Power said that as western Canada\u2019s oldest newspaper, the Free Press has always been a part of Grey Cup coverage and is delighted to be adding yet another chapter as Winnipeg hosts this year\u2019s championship game.<\/p>\n<p>fpcity@freepress.mb.ca<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251114-standup-CFLAA-Legends-Luncheon-0001.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1020\" data-pswp-height=\"629\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251114-standup-CFLAA-Legends-Luncheon-0001.jpg\" alt=\"MIKE DEAL \/ FREE PRESS &#13;&#10;Former Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver, Steve Mazurak, takes a photo of his wife Heather (left) and his 96-year-old mother-in-law, Brenda Thomson, with the Grey Cup. (Mike Deal \/ Free Press)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMIKE DEAL \/ FREE PRESS &#13;<br \/>\nFormer Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver, Steve Mazurak, takes a photo of his wife Heather (left) and his 96-year-old mother-in-law, Brenda Thomson, with the Grey Cup. (Mike Deal \/ Free Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Special guests, football fan favourites and over 60 CFLAA alumni gathered Friday at the RBC Convention Centre to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-285429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}