Opening-week CFL game between Elks and Lions to feature 2 Canadian quarterbacks
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The B.C. Lions will host the Edmonton Elks at B.C. Place in the season opener for both teams.
It will be a historic CFL first Saturday night in Vancouver.
The B.C. Lions will host the Edmonton Elks at B.C. Place in the season opener for both teams. This will mark the first opening week featuring two Canadian starting quarterbacks (B.C.’s Nathan Rourke, Edmonton’s Tre Ford) since 1968 and the first time it’s occurred in the same game.
The 2025 season will kick off Thursday night with the Ottawa Redblacks visiting the Saskatchewan Roughriders. On Friday night, the Toronto Argonauts begin their Grey Cup defence in Montreal versus the Alouettes before the Calgary Stampeders entertain the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday night.
Also of note in Vancouver, B.C.’s Buck Pierce and Edmonton’s Mark Kilam will make their CFL head-coaching debuts.
Rourke, 27, of Victoria, rejoined the Lions last season following NFL stints with Jacksonville, New England, the New York Giants and Atlanta. He was the league’s top Canadian in 2022 with B.C.
Ford, also 27, was Edmonton’s ’22 first-round pick out of Waterloo. The Hec Crighton Trophy winner from Niagara Falls, Ont., was 9-9 in 18 starts over the last three years before signing an extension with the CFL club this off-season.
Ford and Kilam are looking to lead Edmonton to the CFL playoffs for the first time since 2019. Pierce joined the Lions following 10 seasons as an assistant with Winnipeg, helping the Bombers make five straight Grey Cup appearances, winning in 2019 and ’21.
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