{"id":745429,"date":"2026-06-18T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745429\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:34:10","slug":"blue-bombers-adding-legendary-coach-cal-murphy-to-clubs-ring-of-honour-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745429\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers adding legendary coach Cal Murphy to club\u2019s Ring of Honour | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781804050_825_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Blue Bombers coach Cal Murphy talks to fullback Duane Forde, left, and linebacker Elfrid Payton during team practice in Calgary on Nov. 24, 1993. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Dave Buston<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 18, 2026 | 8:09 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will add former coach and general manager Cal Murphy to the club\u2019s Ring of Honour on July 30.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, who died in 2012, helped guide Winnipeg to three Grey Cup championships during his tenure with the club from 1983-96, winning one as head coach and two as GM. He was twice named the CFL\u2019s coach of the year.<\/p>\n<p>He will be honoured at halftime when the Blue Bombers host the B.C. Lions at Princess Auto Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg-born Murphy finished his CFL career with nine Grey Cup championships, including five as a member of Edmonton\u2019s coaching staff and one as an assistant coach in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers coach Cal Murphy talks to fullback Duane Forde, left, and linebacker Elfrid Payton during team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[879,49,48,521,522,2467,520,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-745429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-cfl","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745429","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=745429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}