Say what you will about the CFL but last night's Grey Cup game was an instant classic. The game pitted the overwhelming favourite Montreal Alouettes against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the CFL's version of the community-owned Green Bay Packers. It saw the underdog take it to the faves in the 1st half, it saw what looked like a missed field goal attempt, cap the game before the play was called back due to an extra defender being on the field. And ultimately it saw the Als win the Grey Cup with a last second filed goal conversion.
Fittingly the game drew monster record-breaking audiences. The game drew an average of 6.1 million viewers between 5.087 million on TSN and an additional 1+million viewers on French-language RDS. It shattered the previous mark of 5.2 million viewers set in 2002.
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