Esks Place Four Players On Western All-Star Team
04/11/2008 05:19
The Montreal Alouettes reaped some reward for dominating the CFL East Division by having 14 players named as division all-stars on Monday.
But the 11-7 British Columbia Lions pulled a surprise by having 13 players named to the West all-star team despite finishing third in the division behind the Calgary Stampeders and Saskatchewan Roughriders.
''When you give up the least number of sacks, awards go to the offensive line and when you're the top passing team and have three of the top receivers in the league, they all get rewarded,'' said Montreal general manager Jim Popp.
''We're overwhelmed that we had 14. It's fantastic. But when you win the division, you always get more.''
At least in the underwhelming East, where the 11-7 Alouettes were the only team with a record better than .500. The second-place Winnipeg Blue Bombers had six all-stars, the Toronto Argonauts had four and the last-place Hamilton Tiger-cats had three.
In the tightly contested West, the first-place Stampeders had six players named as all-stars, while Saskatchewan and fourth-place Edmonton each had four.
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SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
Congrats to Esks’ Kamau Peterson, Dario Romero, Jason Goss and Patrick Kabongo. Peterson has a real good chance of also being named the CFL’s most outstanding Canadian player of 2008.