CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s something that we do here in Saskatchewan,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cBut in order to do that, you\u2019ve got to win the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt never gets old for me when the Grey Cup is in our possession. In this role, you get to see the Grey Cup several times during the year, but it\u2019s the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 Grey Cup right now to bring across the province.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s special. There\u2019s no other way to describe it.\u00a0 We\u2019re fortunate to have the season we did and for the guys to accomplish the goals that were set out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although there wasn\u2019t a formal Grey Cup Tour after the Roughriders\u2019 ice-breaking win in 1966, players and coaches were in demand across the province during the winter that ensued.<\/p>\n
The process became more formalized after the 1989 Grey Cup win. Saskatoon\u2019s Circle Centre Mall was one of the early stops, in December of that year.<\/p>\n
In the weeks that followed, John Gregory may have set a record for communities visited by a Roughriders Head Coach in one winter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember that John and some of the guys went all over the province and they were well-received, obviously,\u201d recalled Dave Ridgway, who kicked the game-winning field goal in the 1989 Grey Cup Game. \u201cIt had been a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
One highlight of the 1989-90 off-season was an exhibition hockey game between the Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Shortly after the Feb. 10, 1990 event, the trophy was returned to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame for the duration of the off-season.<\/p>\n
The current Tour concept was adopted after the 2007 Grey Cup victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere didn\u2019t we go?\u201d Roughriders linebacker Anton McKenzie told the Regina Leader-Post in late January of 2008. \u201cWe went to La Ronge, Melfort, Humboldt, Swift Current, Lloydminster, Macklin \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Then-President-CEO Jim Hopson told the L-P\u2019s Darrell Davis that the trophy had been to \u201cdinners in Yorkton and Lloydminster\u201d and \u201cevery WHL rink in the province.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hopson was also the President-CEO when Saskatchewan won a league championship in 2013. Reynolds, who succeeded Hopson two years later, was the community-owned team\u2019s Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer during its fourth championship season.<\/p>\n
As one who hails from Foam Lake, Reynolds is especially attuned to the importance of visiting smaller communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means a ton,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s what makes the Roughriders the Roughriders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Roughriders aren\u2019t just Regina. The Roughriders aren\u2019t just Saskatoon. They\u2019re the entire province. The entire province gets behind the team and supports the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s literally the least we can do to bring the Grey Cup to as many communities as we can get to in order to support their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUMBOLDT \u2014\u00a0The Grey Cup Community Tour had Humboldt beginnings. The first of many stops was Elgar Petersen Arena,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-466126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466126","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=466126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}