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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers (officially the Winnipeg Football Club) was formed in 1930 as the Winnipeg Winnipegs. The name was certainly not original in the slightest, and was soon shortened to the Winnipeg Pegs. The Pegs adopted their present colours of blue and gold in 1932. They soon became a football powerhouse on the Canadian prairies. In 1935, the Winnipeg Pegs became the first team from western Canada to win the Grey Cup. The following summer, the Winnipeg Pegs were playing an exhibition game in North Dakota. Apparently they were trouncing their opposition that day. Joe Louis, then the reigning heavyweight boxing champion, was known by the nickname "the brown bomber" because he also thoroughly trounced most of his opponents. Legend has it that during the game a young sports reporter with the Winnipeg Tribune, Vince Leah, happened to remark, "these are the blue bombers of football," which was a takeoff on the nickname for Joe Louis. Since that day the Winnipeg Football Club has been known as the Blue Bombers.
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What year was the first CFL game played?
The Canadian Football League (CFL) was formed on January 19, 1958. It was an amalgamation between the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) and their eastern counterpart, the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU, but better known as "the Big Four"). The Western teams were: British Columbia Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, Calgary Stampeders, Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Big Four teams were: Hamilton Tigercats, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes. The first CFL game took place in Winnipeg, on August 14, 1958, between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Edmonton Eskimos. For more information on the CFL, copy and paste into your browser: http://cfl.ca/
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