MontrealAlouettes.com
MONTREAL – Here’s a numerical breakdown of what went down during the Alouettes thrilling 33-32 comeback victory over the Calgary Stampeders on Thursday night at Percival Molson Stadium.
2 – Number of AC’s on the field on Friday, with the Alouettes star quartback taking a temporary backseat to his niece Angelica Calvillo, the evening’s anthem singer who nailed a bilingual version of Oh Canada.
0 – Stampeders who managed to lay a hand on Brian Bratton when he stopped, dropped and rolled after snagging a pass from Calvillo at midfield before getting right back up and taking it to the house, putting the Alouettes on the board in the first quarter.
68 – Total yardage of Bratton’s zany touchdown play.
2 – Times Bratton has scored the Alouettes first touchdown in a game in 2012, with the soon-to-be 30-year-old having done the same in Calgary in the season-opener.
50 – Career wins amassed by head coach Marc Trestman, who reached the half-century with his squad’s victory over the Stampeders.
10 – Combined seasons under the combined coaching belts of Trestman and Stamp’s coach, the two longest-tenured coaches in the CFL today.
9 – Combined coaching pedigree in years of all other active CFL coaches combined.
250 – Days since Dahrran Diedrick last suited up for a regular season game, with the Als fullback seeing his first action of 2012 following a hamstring injury he suffered during training camp last month.
0 – Family relation between Stamps’ linebacker Karl McCartney and his namesake Sir Paul McCartney, with the pair also not sharing their levels of popularity in Montreal.
106 – Yards receiving piled up by receiver Brandon London, marking the first time the 27-year-old has cracked the century mark in the CFL.
2 – Seasons over the last decade in which the Als or Stamps have not managed a season-sweep of their two meetings, the team’s splitting their encounters in 2010 and 2005 prior to the Alouettes assuring a split this year with their win on Thursday night.
39 – Number of yards Jerald Brown returned his game-changing late interception to the one-yard line to set the stage for Patrick Lavoie’s game-winning touchdown.
47.4 – Seconds remaining on the clock when rookie Lavoie brought down his clinching TD.
26 – Wins amassed by Laval’s own Jean Pascal, who was introduced to the crowd on the field as he prepares for his shot at light-heavyweight champ Tavoris Cloud for the IBF and vacant IBO titles in Montreal at the Bell Centre on August 11.
