If there is one thing the last week and a half has taught us in the Canadian Football League it is that seemingly all bets are off, unless of course you are the Calgary Stampeders.
In the last week and a half we have seen Toronto lose to a winless Hamilton Tiger-Cats that had no business winning the game.
They had just fired their coach and changed their quarterback and were a hot mess for several weeks prior yet there they were beating the Argonauts.
Then those same Tiger-Cats came up against the defending Grey Cup champion Ottawa Redblacks, and again, they were heavy underdogs and probably had no business hanging with a Redblacks team that had won three straight coming in.
And again, they lit up the scoreboard in the first half and left with another win.
All of a sudden a 0-8 team has won two in a row and has a legitimate shot at winning the East Division.
Then we got out west where the Roughriders and Blue Bombers went to war.
The Bombers came into those contests 7-2 against a 4-4 Roughriders team, and what happened?
The Riders blasted the Bombers in the Labour Day Classic.
This left us thinking, okay the Riders have won three straight and have looked great doing it, they should have no problem going into Winnipeg and winning again, right?
Wrong.
They were given a taste of their own medicine by the Bombers and were hammered during the Banjo Bowl.
Then of course we had the Battle of Alberta.
The banged up Eskimos visited the 7-1-1 Stampeders and what happens? The Stamps route the Eskimos, and then a week later beat them again. All of a sudden the Stamps are 9-1-1 and the Eskimos are 7-4 and have lost four straight.
This leaves us with Calgary clearly on top and everyone else kind of in the middle.
Sure, we have some teams with good records, like the entire West Division at least .500, and some teams with bad records, like the entire East Division with sub .500 records, but we have seen some of those bad teams beat up on the good ones, like Hamilton over Ottawa and Toronto, Saskatchewan over Winnipeg, Ottawa over B.C.
Winning in sports in never a guarantee and the last week has shown us that the CFL is certainly no exception.
Except for those pesky Stamps, who just never seem to lose.
