Looking back: Fans cheer on the Bombers in past Grey Cup games

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The Bombers have appeared in 24 Grey Cup games, winning 10 times since the club's inception in 1930. Though it's been 29 years since their last CFL title, they can always count on diehard fans to cheer them on. 

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The Bombers have appeared in 24 Grey Cup games, winning 10 times since the club’s inception in 1930. Though it’s been 29 years since their last CFL title, they can always count on diehard fans to cheer them on. 

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Mayor Steve Juba and Bud Grant (with a tiger) at the 1958 Grey Cup against the Ticats. The Bombers one 35-28.
BILL ROSE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Fan Joan McInnes in 1958.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES The Grey Cup parade in Toronto in 1959. The Bombers beat the Tiger Cats 21-7.
GERRY CAIRNS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Bomber players' wives and girlfriends watching game on TV in an undated photo.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Olive Smith and Mrs. Bill Kandis at the 1961 event.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Howard Smeall departs Winnipeg on a Toronto-bound train with scores of other Bombers fans in 1961. The Bombers beat the Ticats 21-14 in overtime.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Herb Gray (holding cup, on left) and Steve Patrick from the winning 1962 team.
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Radio personality Jack Skelly at a celebration held at Winnipeg Arena for the 1984 Grey Cup game against Hamilton.
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Jack Skelley at a pep rally for the Bombers in 1984. The Blue Bombers defeated the Tiger-Cats in a 47–17 victory.
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Fans celebrate at Portage and Main after the Bombers' first Grey Cup win with Cal Murphy as coach in 1984.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Bombers president Ross Brown holds the Grey Cup during a victory parade down Portage Avenue in 1988.
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Excited Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans are held back by police officers at Winnipeg's airport after the team arrives back with the Grey Cup in 1988.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Winnipeggers Wally Starodub (from left), Howard Skrypnyk, Garry Minsky and Steven Skrypnyk are ready to cheer on the Blue Bombers when the team faced the Calgary Stampeders in the Grey Cup at Olympic Stadium in Montreal in 2001. The Bombers lost 27-19.
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES A dance team at Grey Cup party in 2001.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Montreal fan Fred Farmer gets into the spirit by donning a football head mask for the 2001 game.
THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES A Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan shows her support for the team prior to the 95th Grey Cup game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2007. Winnipeg lost 23-19.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans including Cooch (left) and Bubbles -- who call themselves the Transcona Terrorists -- arrive at a downtown Toronto hotel take in a Manitoba-themed social in 2007.
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans arrive at BC Place Stadium for the 2011 Grey Cup final between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the B.C. Lions in Vancouver. The Bombers lost 34-23.

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