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The Grey Cup is Canada?s largest professional sporting event. Every year Grey Cup fans are treated not only to the largest football event in Canada but a week long celebration of events leading up to it.

It began when the fourth Earl Grey, who was Canada's governor general, donated a trophy to be awarded to the amateur rugby football champion of Canada in 1909. The idea caught on, and pretty soon there were eight teams across the country vying for the prize.

In 1909, the University of Toronto's Varsity Blues beat Toronto Parkdale 26-6 in front of 3,807 fans at Rosedale Field in the first Grey Cup game ever played. For the first 22 years, since its official inception in 1909, the Grey Cup was a challenge between a handful of teams in Southern Ontario: the Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, the Parkdale canoe club, and Varsity Blues. In 1921, the Edmonton Eskimos asked the Canadian Rugby Union if they could compete for the Grey Cup. They became the first western team, effectively opening the door for the national event that it would soon become

For the first 45 years, football teams from various leagues in Canada could bid to compete for the championship and the trophy. In the early years, the winners were teams representing universities or local athletic associations. Over time, the Grey Cup became the property of the Canadian Football League (CFL) who had evolved as a professional league that plays Canadian football. University football teams now compete for the Vanier Cup. In November 2006, the CFL confirmed that they were entertaining offers from corporate partners for the naming rights of the Grey Cup. Though the naming rights would apply to the Grey Cup championship game and not the trophy itself, many objected to the idea, claiming that the league should not compromise a national historic treasure for short-term profit.

In 2007 Toronto Argonauts is to host a celebration of football featuring the 95th Grey Cup. Toronto last hosted the Grey Cup in 1992 when Calgary defeated Winnipeg 24-10. This unique Canadian championship game has attracted an average television audience of more than 4.2 million viewers over the past three years. In addition to the thousands filling the Rogers Centre, the Grey Cup will be watched by millions of fans across Canada on CBC and RDS and in more than 160 countries around the globe. Starting in 2008, cable network TSN will be the exclusive provider of the Grey Cup for English viewers while RDS will remain the provider for the French broadcast.

The three largest crowds in Grey Cup history were in Montreal, including a record 68,318 for Montreal's 41-6 win over Edmonton in 1977 and 65,255 the last time the game was at the Big O in 2001, when Calgary beat Winnipeg 27-19. They had 65,113 in 1979 for Montreal's 17-9 loss to the Eskimos.

the Grey Cup has survived the test of time, passed annually to new champions, while celebrating former legends by listing each winning player on its third (and present) base, which was added to the original trophy in 1987. It has been stolen, broken, sat on, and held for ransom. It was nearly destroyed by fire in 1949, but snagged on a nail where it clung to live on to become arguably the most storied chalice in the annals of North American Professional sport. It brings players and fans alike to the brink of total euphoria and heart-rending anguish.