96th Grey Cup

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.

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.

Events

There will be a Grey Cup Village much like the one in 2001 at the Dorchester Square. Not all musical events have been released but some of the acts, most of the acts so far are French-Canadian, announced are Porn Flakes, Kellylee Evans, Rock Story, other events are:Véronique Labbé,Guy Bélanger,Take the Boys,White Faze,Marc Parent et Wang Dang Doodle,Angel Forrest,Young Soul,Sylvie Desgroseilliers (Motown Show).

Tickets

Tickets will be priced lower than most Grey Cups.Fact|date=December 2007 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.

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 the 2001 Grey Cup, Montreal had the second-best attendance at 65,255. Last report the pre-sales have sold 50,000 seats. The 96th Grey Cup expects to be sold out.

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References

External links

* [http://www.cflgreycup.ca/montreal/ Official website]
* [http://www.greycupfestival.com/ Official Grey Cup Festival website]