{"id":891688,"date":"2026-09-11T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891688\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:24:09","slug":"zurkowsky-alouettes-set-sights-on-erasing-11-years-of-misery-in-lions-den-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891688\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurkowsky: Alouettes set sights on erasing 11 years of misery in Lions&#8217; den of despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday afternoon, Saskatchewan travels to Winnipeg to play what affectionately has been dubbed the Banjo Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, the Alouettes meet the B.C. Lions in the second half of a home-and-away series at BC Place (10 p.m., TSN1, TSN3, TSN4, TSN5, RDS, TSN Radio-690, 99.5 FM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While some \u2014 at least from an Als perspective \u2014 would refer to the contest as Guaranteed Loss Night, we have decided instead to rename the match the <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/football\/cfl\/inside-the-cfl-for-tom-higgins-alouettes-were-a-job-not-finished\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/football\/cfl\/inside-the-cfl-for-tom-higgins-alouettes-were-a-job-not-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tom Higgins<\/a> Bowl. We hope the phrase will catch on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday afternoon, Saskatchewan travels to Winnipeg to play what affectionately has been dubbed the Banjo Bowl. Later,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-891688","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\/891688","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=891688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}