Engraved on a Nation- Western Swagger
Gridiron America Radio
English - May 05, 2021 14:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsFootball Sports History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Western Swagger shares the genesis of an East vs. West rivalry both on and off the football field that reached a fever pitch in November 1981. As the Edmonton Eskimos embarked on an unprecedented Grey-Cup winning streak, former Eskimo and Alberta Premier, Peter Lougheed, was in a battle off the field with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau over a National Energy Program – the implementation of which could send Alberta’s economy into a tailspin – and collaborating with his fellow Premiers during a Constitutional crisis that had the country on the brink of chaos.