Quarterback Dru Brown leads Blue Bombers to 36-13 win over Stampeders
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Rasheed Bailey says it was one of the greatest touchdowns of his CFL career.
Rasheed Bailey says it was one of the greatest touchdowns of his CFL career.
It happened in a game that Winnipeg didn’t need to win, but when Bailey hauled in a tipped pass from starting quarterback Dru Brown and ran into the end zone for a 68-yard score, it provided all the spark the Blue Bombers needed to go on to a 36-13 triumph over the Calgary Stampeders.
"That play represents the whole year," said Bailey, who finished the season with six touchdown catches to give him 20 for his four-year career with the Bombers. "It’ll probably go down as one of my greatest touchdowns of my career. You see all the guys surrounding you, that’s real impact, that’s real love, that’s real leadership.
"That’s what that touchdown means to me."
Just before Bailey’s clutch catch late in the third quarter, the Stampeders had gone up 13-12 thanks to Cole Tucker’s first CFL touchdown, a 21-yard pass he hauled in from quarterback Jake Maier to cap off a six-play, 78-yard drive.
"I think the spark might have been Rasheed Bailey," said Winnipeg coach Mike O’Shea of the quick response by his team. "That’s as good a touchdown catch and run you’re ever going to see.
"He got that whole bench fired up. Guys were just pumped when they saw that."
