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TEAM OF MISFITS BECOME CHAMPIONS AND GIVE GOD THE GLORY BY CARTER BROOKS
“He constructed this locker room. He put these great men next to each other — these great fathers, these great husbands, these hard workers.”
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he 105th Grey Cup will go down in the history books as one of the greatest Canadian Football League championship games ever played. Held at TD Place Stadium at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, this late November 2017 matchup between the Toronto Argonauts and the Calgary Stampeders will unequivocally be remembered for a host of reasons. Canadian country music icon Shania Twain made her return to the Grey Cup (via dogsled) as the half-time entertainment for the first time since 2002, the Argonauts completed a comefrom-behind victory — in which their
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first lead of the game came with 53 seconds left to play, — and most notably, a colossal batch of snow was served up just in time for kick-off, creating extremely jocular football conditions for both players and fans alike. But for Christians taking in the yearly spectacle, the main attraction of Grey Cup 105 undoubtedly came shortly after the final whistle sounded. DeVier Posey — a 27-year-old former National Football League wide receiver — had just played the game of his life for the victor Argos, and was receiving the appropriate accolades associated for such an accomplishment,
when the TSN television crew turned their microphone and lens to the 6-foot-2, 210 pound California native. Even before jubilantly celebrating his capture of the nation’s greatest football trophy with his teammates, Posey took five minutes away from his team and showed the entire stadium and television viewing audience just how deeply rooted he is in his faith. Basing his on-field interview off of the verse, “To God be the glory forever and ever. Amen!” (Galatians 1:5), Posey also managed to provide some other behind-the-scenes insights into the 2017 Grey Cup Champions.
