{"id":556869,"date":"2026-03-24T05:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556869\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:56:15","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-celebrate-grey-cup-with-angie-reed-late-george-reeds-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556869\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders celebrate Grey Cup with Angie Reed, late George Reed&#8217;s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HEDGEwibkAA5qo7-1.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Photo: Corey Mace (@CoreyJMace)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"451\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HEDGEwibkAA5qo7-1-696x451.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Corey Mace Angie Reed\"\/><\/a>Photo: Corey Mace (@CoreyJMace)<\/p>\n<p>Corey Mace, the head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, presented Angie Reed with the Grey Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAngie Reed \u2026 enough said,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CoreyJMace\/status\/2035845192994205784\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mace wrote in the post<\/a>, his first since December.<\/p>\n<p>George Reed, Angie\u2019s husband of 62 years, passed away in 2023 at the age of 83, making this the first time Saskatchewan has won the Grey Cup since his death.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot, 205-pound ball-carrier played 13 seasons with the Roughriders, rushing for 16,116 yards and 134 touchdowns over 203 regular-season games. He retired as the CFL\u2019s all-time leading rusher after the 1975 season and remains second on the list behind only Mike Pringle, who surpassed him in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Reed was a ten-time All-West Division selection, nine-time All-CFL selection, one-time CFL Most Outstanding Player, one-time Grey Cup Most Valuable Player, and one-time Grey Cup champion. His No. 34 was retired by the Roughriders in 1976, one year after his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Vicksburg, Miss. is a member of the Order of Canada and was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1979. After his passing, the CFL named its M.O.P. award in Reed\u2019s honour. A street bearing his name is located near Mosaic Stadium, where a statue was unveiled in his honour in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Reeds were married for 62 years and had three children \u2014 Keith, Vicki and Georgette. The couple lived exclusively in Canada after George\u2019s retirement, including stints in Regina and Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201466 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HEDGEwibkAA5qo7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/>Photo: Corey Mace (@CoreyJMace)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Corey Mace (@CoreyJMace) Corey Mace, the head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, presented Angie Reed with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,215716,49,48,521,522,520,60449,127929,68627,45083,55574,24373,82],"class_list":["post-556869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-angie-reed","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-corey-mace","tag-george-reed","tag-grey-cup","tag-riders","tag-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556869","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=556869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}