{"id":745532,"date":"2026-06-18T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745532\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:34:10","slug":"blue-bombers-adding-legendary-coach-cal-murphy-to-clubs-ring-of-honour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745532\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers adding legendary coach Cal Murphy to club&#8217;s Ring of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>He was inducted into the Winnipeg Football Club Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>A statue of Murphy was unveiled outside the stadium in 2017, and the club\u2019s annual Cal Murphy Heart of a Legend Award has been presented since 2001.\u2028<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778261834_283_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will add former coach and general manager Cal Murphy to the club\u2019s Ring of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-745532","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\/745532","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=745532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}