96th Grey Cup

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96th Grey Cup

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Date	November 23, 2008
Stadium	Olympic Stadium/Le Stade Olympique
City	Montreal
Most Valuable Player	,
Most Valuable Canadian	,
Parade Marshall
National Anthem
Halftime show
Attendance
TV in Canada
English-language Television network	TSN/TSN HD
French-language Television network	RDS/RDS HD
Announcers	to be announced
Nielsen Ratings	to be announced

The 96th Grey Cup will be held in Montreal at Olympic Stadium on November 23, 2008. This will be the first time Montreal has hosted the Grey Cup since 2001. Hoping to break the record for highest attendance for a Grey Cup game, the organizers will expand Olympic Stadium to almost 70,000 seats.

[edit] Broadcast

This is the first Grey Cup not to be broadcast on CBC-TV since they started broadcasting the Grey Cup. In Canada, the game will be telecast solely on TSN and its French-language sister network RDS.

[edit] Tickets

Tickets will be priced lower than most Grey Cups.^{[citation needed]} Tickets had three pre-sale days, one during the 95th Grey Cup, one in December and one during Super Bowl XLII. Regular tickets went on sale in March 2008.

[edit] Attendance

The organizers of the 96th Grey Cup want to break the 70,000 attendance mark. The current record for highest attendance was set at the 1977 Grey Cup, also at the Big O in Montreal (68,318). In 2001, Montreal had the second-best attendance at 65,255. Last report the pre sales have sold 40,000 seats. The 96th Grey Cup expects to be sold out.

[edit] External links

• Official website

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