Saskatchewan Roughriders (43) – TDs,
Ray Elgaard,
Jeff Fairholm,
Donald Narcisse,
Tim McCray; FGs,
Dave Ridgway (4); cons.,
Ridgway (4); single,
Terry Baker; safety touch.
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (40) – TDs,
Tony Champion (2),
Derrick McAdoo (2); FGs,
Paul Osbaldiston (4); cons.,
Osbaldiston (4).
First Quarter HAM—FG Osbaldiston 42 (10:38) HAM 3 SSK 0 HAM—FG Osbaldiston 38 (5:51) HAM 6 SSK 0 SSK—Single Baker 50 yard punt (4:09) HAM 6 SSK 1 HAM—TD Champion 13 pass from Kerrigan (Osbaldiston kick) (0:15) HAM 13 SSK 1
Second Quarter SSK—TD Elgaard 5 pass from Austin (Ridgway kick) (9:22) HAM 13 SSK 8 HAM—TD McAdoo 30 pass from Kerrigan (Osbaldiston kick) (6:59) HAM 20 SSK 8 SSK—TD Fairholm 75 pass from Austin (Ridgway kick) (6:31) HAM 20 SSK 15 HAM—TD McAdoo 1 run (Osbaldiston kick) (2:30) HAM 27 SSK 15 SSK—TD Narcisse 5 pass from Austin (Ridgway kick) (0:44) HAM 27 SSK 22
Third Quarter SSK—FG Ridgway 35 (10:42) HAM 27 SSK 25 HAM—FG Osbaldiston 40 (8:11) HAM 30 SSK 25 SSK—Safety Osbaldiston concedes in end zone (4:54) HAM 30 SSK 27 SSK—TD McCray 1-yard run (Ridgway kick) (2:51) SSK 34 HAM 30
Fourth Quarter SSK—FG Ridgway 25 (14:10) SSK 37 HAM 30 HAM—FG Osbaldiston 47 (6:21) SSK 37 HAM 33 SSK—FG Ridgway 20 (1:58) SSK 40 HAM 33 HAM—TD Champion 9 pass from Kerrigan (Osbaldiston kick) (0:44) SSK 40 HAM 40 SSK—FG Ridgway 35 (0:03) SSK 43 HAM 40 After an up-and-down regular season, finishing 9–9 on the year, the
Saskatchewan Roughriders made the playoffs and were huge underdogs to make it to the
Grey Cup. However, the Roughriders managed to defeat the
Calgary Stampeders in the West Semi-Final 33-26 and went on to the Western Final to defeat the heavily favoured
Edmonton Eskimos (who set a CFL record with 16 wins) 32–21, to reach the Grey Cup game. In the Grey Cup game, the Riders faced the number one team in the
East, the
Hamilton Tiger-Cats in
Toronto. The Tiger-Cats had seven all-stars in their lineup and football experts assumed that it would be a huge blowout for Hamilton. At the beginning of the game, it seemed that the football experts were right when the jubilant Saskatchewan fans were silenced when Tiger-Cats kicker,
Paul Osbaldiston kicked his first two field goals to give Hamilton an early 6–0 lead, while the Saskatchewan offence was struggling. But by the mid-way point of the second quarter, the Riders offence began to show signs of life, when QB,
Kent Austin had completed touchdown passes to
Ray Elgaard,
Jeff Fairholm and
Donald Narcisse. On the last play before end of the second quarter,
Dave Ridgway came on the field to attempt his first field goal of the game, a 50-yarder to pull the game within two, but he ended up missing the field-goal and Hamilton led the game 27–22, after two quarters. By the end of the third quarter, the Riders scored 12 points through a Dave Ridgway field goal, a safety touch and a
Tim McCray touchdown, to move into a 34–30 lead. With just under two minutes left to go in the fourth quarter the Riders went ahead 40-33 after Ridgway kicked his third field goal of the day. But the Hamilton Tiger-Cats refused to surrender when trailing by seven points. With a well thought, methodical drive, Hamilton's QB
Mike Kerrigan marched his team down the field and tied the game at 40-40 when wide receiver
Tony Champion made an incredible acrobatic catch in the end zone with under a minute left in the fourth quarter. Overtime loomed, but Saskatchewan still had the ball with a chance to win in regulation. With just 44 seconds left on the game clock, Riders QB Kent Austin completed three passes for 48 yards to position his team for the winning field goal at Hamilton's 26-yard line with nine seconds remaining in the game. Tiger-Cats coach
Al Bruno decided to call a time-out in an attempt to make Ridgway nervous, but when
Glen Suitor put down the snap from
Bob Poley, Ridgway drilled 'The Kick' through the uprights to give Saskatchewan its first Grey Cup championship in 23 years. ==The Kick==