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The 1994 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 41st season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 37th Canadian Football League season.

CFL News in 1994

The CFL admitted three more U.S.-based teams with the Las Vegas Posse, the Shreveport Pirates and the Baltimore Colts - making it 12 teams in total, six in each division. However, the Colts name was revoked from the Baltimore franchise due to NFL pressure and played the entire season as the "Baltimore CFLers". The new teams would start play in 1994, with Las Vegas joining the Sacramento Gold Miners in the West Division and with Baltimore and Shreveport joining the East Division.

In February, Bruce Firestone purchased the Ottawa Rough Riders from the Glieberman family. In May, the JLL Broadcast Group purchased the Toronto Argonauts.

BC Place Stadium played host to the Grey Cup game on Sunday, November 27, making Vancouver the host city for the twelfth time-more than any other Western Canadian city. In the Grey Cup game, the hometown BC Lions were against the Baltimore CFLers, becoming the first ever Grey Cup game between a Canadian team and an American team. The Lions ended up defeating the Baltimore team by a score of 26-23, on Lui Passaglia's game-winning field goal in the final seconds of the game.

Records: In a July 14, 1994 matchup of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Edmonton Eskimos, Matt Dunigan passed for a remarkable 713 yards, setting a CFL record.[1]

Allen Pitts set the record for receiving yards in one season with 2,036 yards.

Regular Season Standings

Final regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points

• Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs.

Grey Cup playoffs

The BC Lions are the 1994 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Baltimore CFLers 26-23, in front of their home crowd at Vancouver's BC Place Stadium. It was the first football championship game between Canadian and American teams. The CFLers' Karl Anthony (DB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player and Lions' Lui Passaglia (K/P) was the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.

Playoff bracket

1994 CFL All-Stars

1994 Western All-Stars

1994 Eastern All-Stars

1994 CFL Awards

• CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award - Doug Flutie (QB), Calgary Stampeders
• CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award - Gerald Wilcox (SB), Winnipeg Blue Bombers
• CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award - Willie Pless (LB), Edmonton Eskimos
• CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award - Shar Pourdanesh (OT), Baltimore CFLers
• CFL's Most Outstanding Rookie Award - Matt Goodwin (DB), Baltimore CFLers
• CFLPA's Most Outstanding Community Service Award - O. J. Brigance (LB), Baltimore CFLers
• CFL's Coach of the Year - Don Matthews, Baltimore CFLers

External links

• Dennis KC Parks' famous rendition of Oh Canada at the Las Vegas Posse's season opener against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. A moment of which to be proud