Week 2 in the Canadian Football League featured incredible moments, great fans and plenty of the standard banter on social media.
Here’s how the weekend’s trio of games went down.
Saskatchewan at Ottawa
The real winner of Week 2’s Thursday Night Football contest was Shoe Beer Guy.
The ol’ shoe beer 😂 would you? #CFLGameDay pic.twitter.com/n2J0avmiDR
— CFL on TSN (@CFLonTSN) June 21, 2019
TNF halftime act Monster Truck rocked the house at TD Place.
HALF TIME FUN @Monster_Truck_ 💥💥💥#RNation #LetErRip pic.twitter.com/OKTzDdilvU
— Ottawa REDBLACKS (@REDBLACKS) June 21, 2019
Nothing hits quite like behind-the-scenes social coverage from the locker room.
One time for the win!#RNation #LetErRip pic.twitter.com/UWGZzgMeDa
— Ottawa REDBLACKS (@REDBLACKS) June 21, 2019
BC at Edmonton
Quite simply, the Esks dominated the second half and their social team wasn’t afraid to show it.
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“He’s a competitor, you have to break competitors.” – @almondosewell90 on Thursday. #OneEmpire
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Former Esks Duke Williams — now of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills — weighed in on Twitter following Edmonton’s decisive divisional win.
Edmonton playing great ball @EdmontonEsks 😤
— Dhaquille (@YFBurnna_cmh) June 22, 2019
Hamilton at Toronto
The Argos celebrated legendary QB Ricky Ray prior to the game, and fellow newly-retired QB Travis Lulay weighed in on his outfit:
Ricky Ray wearing a plain white T-shirt on the day he’s honoured by the @TorontoArgos at @BMO is the most Ricky Ray thing ever… congrats to a legend! #CFL
— Travis Lulay (@TravisLulay) June 22, 2019
Ticats rookie Nikola Kalinic scored his first career TD, then celebrated postgame with family and friends — all decked out in No. 84 jerseys.
KALI’S ON FIRE YOUR DEFENCE IS TERRIFIED 🔥 🏈 👑 @Ticats @CFL @TSN_Sports @NidzoKalinic pic.twitter.com/COC7v1aVJC
— Ђошло (@IAmDjole) June 23, 2019
Ticats fan Andrew Nielsen holds a special place in the hearts of the team’s coaches and players.
You are. https://t.co/FCrSTULEro
— Tommy Condell (@TommyCondell) June 23, 2019
Lastly, shoutout to all involved in shifting Saturday’s start time to accommodate The Arkells — all parties involved benefited.
What a beautiful day for a football game. Huge love to @TorontoArgos and @CFL for bumping up the start time to their game so we can all party together.
In case you’re wondering I’m saying it’s “HAM-IL-TON”.
❤️ @Ticats. pic.twitter.com/0cxyuLlLeM— ARKELLS (@arkellsmusic) June 22, 2019
Lastly, a miscellaneous but nonetheless hilarious tweet from Saturday on the recently-retired Kevin Glenn.
That New Era commercial with one guy wearing every #CFL jersey should have been Kevin Glenn… @qterback5
— KrepadoodIe (@KrepadoodIe) June 22, 2019