{"id":26264,"date":"2014-06-11T07:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26264"},"modified":"2014-06-11T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T12:33:45","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-to-honour-bud-grant-with-a-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/winnipeg-blue-bombers-to-honour-bud-grant-with-a-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers to honour Bud Grant with a statue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gordon Sinclair, Jr.<\/a> reports in the Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Bud<\/p>\n

I had lost hope in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n

Not the team.<\/p>\n

Not the hope of the Bombers winning a Grey Cup in my lifetime or even having a winning season.<\/p>\n

No, I’d lost hope that my campaign to have the organization erect a statute in honour of Bud Grant and all that would represent and mean to the organization and the community, had not only failed, it had been ignored.<\/p>\n

Board chairman Brock Bulbuck had suggested when we spoke last year that it was an appealing idea. But it was a year ago this month that I wrote the first of three columns explaining why a statute to the iconic Bomber coach should be placed outside Investors Group Field.<\/p>\n

I went on to say I had heard there had already been talk of a statue to Grant among those tasked with honouring the team’s tradition, but the statue concept needed a nudge.<\/p>\n

“Consider this a big nudge,” I wrote. “Furthermore, consider this: The Bombers should start a fund to commission a statue to Grant…”<\/p>\n

A year passed.<\/p>\n

The team, I reasoned, had more pressing matters, and gradually I lost hope the statue would happen in Grant’s lifetime, if ever.<\/p>\n

Then last Friday an email arrived, it was a courtesy message delivered by Kim Babij-Gesell, the team’s co-ordinator of communications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to The Viking Age<\/em><\/a>, who helpfully rounded up a few career highlights for Grant:<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with Mr. Bud Grant, here are some astounding facts about the man:<\/p>\n