The Winnipeg Blue Bombers unveiled their newly designed uniforms today to mixed reaction.

The home jersey remains navy blue with additional touches of gold on the sleeves. These jerseys will be matched with the traditional gold pants and a gold helmet.

The most radical change is that road jersey is now a gold base with navy numbers and navy sleeves. These jerseys are paired with navy pants and a gold helmet.

As revealed last week, the Blue Bombers primary logo is a white 'W' reminiscent of the logo worn by the Blue Bombers 1963-95.

The stage has been set, the teams have been named and the 99th Grey Cup is just days away with the 2011 season nearing its completion.

This past Sunday four teams played for an opportunity to represent their division in the Grey Cup and cement their names in the history books.

Starting with the Eastern division finals, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers waited ten long seasons to finally call themselves the Eastern division champions and four years before confirming their return to the big game following their 19-3 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Sunday’s game was one of much importance for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. First, they literally tumbled into the postseason losing their last two of three games, of course winning the ever important tie-breaker game against the Montreal Alouettes.

They started the season strong at 7-1 and then went 3-7 down the stretch, losing back to back games to Saskatchewan and missing out on several opportunities to clinch first place.

By clinching the Eastern final the Bombers were able to rest their players and get a good week of practice in before the second biggest game of the season and that paid dividends.

The team was fresh and well rested, they were ready to play under head coach Paul LaPolice and were determined to bring home a Grey Cup for their fans and were not going to let any team stop them.

They definitely did not allow Hamilton to spoil the party, holding them to only three...

With the 99th Grey Cup just days away, let’s take a look back at the 2011 season that was and award several players some awards for their efforts on the field. Below I list the players I felt were deserving of each award and a little background information from the season that was.

Most Outstanding Player: Jamel Richardson – Slotback for Montreal Alouettes

Jamel Richardson has been a player in the Canadian Football League for eight years, spending the last four with Montreal. Each of his four seasons, Richardson has achieved the 1,000 yard receiving mark and this season smashed his highest point by almost 500 yards.

Richardson made his mark on the season right off the bat against the B.C. Lions with 162 yards receiving and two touchdowns. He followed that up with a 114 yard effort against the Saskatchewan Roughriders a week later.

By the season’s end, Jamel Richardson acclaimed twelve games on the season in which he either had or received more than 100 yards and on average had 98.7 yards per game. His average yards per catch were the highest in his career as well at 15.9 yards a catch and had 117 catches overall.

Most Outstanding Offensive Player – Brandon Whitaker – Running Back for Montreal Alouettes

Coming into the 2011 season, Brandon Whitaker had two seasons under his belt as an understudy to Avon Cobourne, who was Montreal’s primary back for the last three seasons before being acquired by Hamilton this offseason.

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His name is Chris Garrett and he grew up in Utica, New York, born in February of 1987 and he currently plays professional football for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

He played college football at Ohio University, was named a Third-Team Freshman All-American and All-MAC as a return man in 2006.

During the 2007 season Garrett would set records for kick return yards with 145, longest kick return with 94 and kick return touchdowns with one.

Not until the 2008 season did Garrett really start shining, as he was named to the third-team All-MAC, was Ohio's career leader in kick return averages at 26.5 a return. He would finish sixth in the MAC in all-purpose yardage at 131.5.

During that same season Garrett would rush for a career-high 222 yards and two touchdowns while setting a school record with 321 all-purpose yards during their win over Miami.

In the end Garrett finished with the Ohio Bobcats with 43 punt returns for 450 yards and one touchdown as well as 82 kickoff returns for 2,185 yards and three touchdowns. At the same time, Garrett carried the ball 300 times for 1,346 yards and seven touchdowns over his four years.

Come time around the NFL draft Garrett went unselected but was invited to a rookie camp held by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When nothing emerged, Garrett returned home, working hard on completing his dream to play ball.

It wasn’t until the 2010 year that Garrett would finally get his shot at the professional...

It has been ten very long years for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers football club since they were last fortunate to host the Eastern finals. If there was ever a time to host it, it could not have come at a better time than when the club is preparing to close down their stadium.

Since then Winnipeg has been involved in two Grey Cups, losing both to Calgary in 2001 and most recently to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2007.

The weather was what you have come to expect from Winnipeg in November with temperatures around -21 with the windchill. Therefore it was almost a guarantee that Winnipeg and Hamilton would look towards the run game.

Coming into Sunday's game, Winnipeg was on a two game losing streak and had questions surrounding their offensive presence while their defense has been on fire consistently all season.

On Sunday quarterback Buck Pierce managed the game clock effectively holding onto the ball for 40 minutes, even though they were unable to put up any majors.

Earlier in the week Winnipeg made the shocking announcement that they had released receiver Terence-Jeffers Harris who immediately signed with Hamilton. It became a question as to what Harris may be able to provide but at the end of the day made no difference in the outcome.

Regardless of what the game plan was the Hamilton defense had no answer to Chris Garrett as he rushed for 190 yards on 29 attempts. Both numbers were a career high for Garrett and will certainly...