CFL super fans will do just about anything to see Grey Cup
Carl Martz’s “welcome to the Grey Cup” moment occurred only a few minutes after stepping off the train from Winnipeg in November 1975.
“I got out at the CP station in Calgary, and all I could do was marvel at how high the Calgary Tower was,” Martz says. “And there was a guy standing beside me. He was so out of it that he looked up and he fell flat on his back. We had to help him up.”
Edmonton’s 9-8 win over Montreal at McMahon Stadium that year was Martz’s first Grey Cup, and even though it was one of the coldest CFL championship games he didn’t stop attending them. He’s been to so many in the last 40 years he doesn’t know the exact number.
“I would say around 25 or 26,” Martz says.
Martz, 64, has seen a Grey Cup in every city’s stadium, and he can’t wait to make trips to Ottawa, Hamilton and Regina to experience it in their new stadiums.
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