The Grey Cup champion Saskatchewan Roughriders are back home, hoisting the CFL’s top prize in front of cheering fans outside Regina’s Mosaic Stadium.<\/p>\n
The crowd, wearing their green and white attire, hooted and rang bells as a pep band played and the players led all in a chant of \u201cLet’s go Riders!” and “Rider Nation!”<\/p>\n
Riders head coach Corey Mace told the crowd that the team worked hard, and quarterback Trevor Harris said the fans kept him motivated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crowd chanted “Two more years!” in a plea to get Harris to stay on the team next season.<\/p>\n
The celebration followed the Riders beating the Montreal Alouettes 25-17 to take the cup Sunday in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Rider fan Del Bachynski says the team worked hard all year and she’s proud of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“They’ve been champions all year and it’s nice they came away with what their whole goal was \u2014 the Grey Cup,” she said Monday outside the stadium.<\/p>\n
Sandra Flegel said she was nervous watching the players hold the cup, as they were standing above the crowd near the stadium’s roof.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I thought it was going to fall,” she said.<\/p>\n
Her son, Stephen Flegel, said he almost gave his mother a heart attack after screaming in front of the TV Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Let’s do it again next year!” he yelled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the celebration, players were taking photos with fans, and signing autographs on jerseys and footballs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Rider Nation is a family,” said fan Patrick Janex.<\/p>\n
He said he drove from Winnipeg in the morning after watching the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I can’t believe what just happened,” he said. “It’s been 12 years since we won that cup and brought it back to the Prairies, where it belongs.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
A championship parade is scheduled Tuesday in Regina down Albert Street \u2014 known as the Green Mile \u2014 followed by a ceremony in front of the legislature building.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grey Cup champion Saskatchewan Roughriders are back home, hoisting the CFL’s top prize in front of cheering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-290403","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\/290403","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=290403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}