Winnipeg Football Club
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| Founded | 1930 |
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| Based in | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
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Osborne Stadium (1935–1952) Canad Inns Stadium (1953–2012) Investors Group Field (2013–present) |
| Head coach | Mike O'Shea |
| General manager | Kyle Walters |
| Owner(s) | The club is a corporation without share capital. No person or entity owns the team. |
| League | Canadian Football League |
| Division | West Division |
| Colours | Blue, gold |
| Nickname(s) | Bombers, Blue and Gold, Big Blue, True Blue |
| Mascot(s) | Buzz and Boomer |
| Grey Cup wins | 10 (1935, 1939, 1941, 1958 1959, 1961, 1962, 1984 1988, 1990) |
| Website | www.bluebombers.com |
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers (officially the Winnipeg Football Club) are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently members of the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). They play their home games at Investors Group Field after many years of playing at the since demolished Canad Inns Stadium.
The Blue Bombers were founded in 1930 as the Winnipeg Football Club, which remains the organization's legal name today. Since that time, they have won the league's Grey Cup championship 10 times, most recently in 1990. With 10 wins, they have the third-highest win total in the Grey Cup among active and defunct CFL teams. Though they are currently the team with the longest Grey Cup drought (and in the West Division overall [although their 1990 win, their most recent, came when they played in the East Division]), no other CFL franchise has as many Grey Cup appearances as the Blue Bombers' current 25. The Blue Bombers were the first team not located in Ontario or Quebec to win a championship.
The first football team in Winnipeg was formed in 1879, and was called the Winnipeg Rugby Football Club. On June 10, 1930, they amalgamated with all the other teams in the Manitoba Rugby Football Union to create the Winnipeg Winnipegs Rugby Football Club, adopting the colours green and white. The Winnipegs played their first game against St. John's Rugby Club on June 13, 1930, when St. John's won by a score of 7–3. In 1932, the Winnipegs and St. John's merged into one team and adopted the colours blue and gold.
Western teams had been to the Grey Cup game 10 times since 1909, but they had always gone home empty-handed. It was clear in those days that the East was much more powerful, outscoring their opponents 236–29 in these games. On December 7, 1935, the Bombers got their first shot at winning the 23rd Grey Cup. The game was being held in Hamilton, with the home-town Tigers being their opponents. It was a rainy day at Hamilton Amateur Athletic Association Grounds, with 6,405 fans in attendance.
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