CFL Grey Cup ref makes rookie mistake at coin toss

The Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup got disconnected to a unusual commencement close astatine the coin flip connected Sunday night.

Head referee Ben Major welcomed the captains of the Toronto Argonauts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to midfield. He showed the players which broadside was heads and which broadside was tails and handed it to Coinbase Canada CEO Lucas Matheson to flip it.

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CFL referee Ben Major connected the tract earlier the CFL Western Semi-Final crippled betwixt the BC Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders astatine Mosaic Stadium connected Nov. 2, 2024 successful Regina, Canada. (Brent Just/Getty Images)

As the coin was successful the air, Major remembered helium forgot 1 of the astir important things astir the toss. He forgot to inquire the Argonauts what their telephone was.

"Check, check," Major said portion trying to halt Matheson’s toss. "I person to ask, what bash you want? Alright, Toronto. Toronto, you’re visiting team. What’s your choice?"

Argonauts wide receiver DaVaris Daniels past made the telephone of heads and everything went smoothly from there.

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Toronto Argonauts' Daniel Adeboboye, #21, lifts the Grey Cup aft defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers successful a CFL shot crippled astatine the 111th Grey Cup successful Vancouver, British Columbia connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Toronto was the squad holding the Grey Cup successful the end. Backup backmost Nick Arbuckle wrote a storybook ending for the Argonauts arsenic helium threw for 252 yards and 2 second-half touchdown passes successful spot of Chad Kelly, who suffered a brutal wounded successful the semifinals.

"You couldn’t publication this," Arbuckle said. "If everybody was to cognize everything, each the things we overcame arsenic a family, from my full beingness and shot vocation to beryllium here, it’s God’s work.

"I’ve been truthful fortunate to person the enactment and content successful maine from my woman and everybody to conscionable support chasing it and persevering. Look astatine it now."

He was named the outstanding subordinate of the game.

Toronto Argonauts backmost Nick Arbuckle, #4, lifts the Grey Cup aft defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers successful a CFL shot crippled astatine the 111th Grey Cup successful Vancouver, British Columbia, connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Toronto won 41-24 implicit Winnipeg for their 19th Grey Cup rubric – a CFL record.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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