* Buzz and Boomer, the official mascots of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

On September 8, 1974, Tom Wilkinson, quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos, unsuccessfully attempted a drop kick field goal in the final seconds of a 24-2 romp over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Jack Jacobs of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is recognized, not for inventing the forward pass, but for popularizing it in the Western Interprovincial Football Union, thus changing the Canadian game from a more run-dominated game to the passing game as seen today.

In 1951, Labatt launched its Pilsener Lager ; when it was introduced in Manitoba, the beer was nicknamed " Blue " for the colour of its label and the company's support of Winnipeg's Canadian Football League ( CFL ) franchise, the Blue Bombers.

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

Grant came to the Vikings from the Canadian Football League as head coach for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, whom he led to four Grey Cup Championships in ten years.

On October 4, 2007, the Blue Jackets announced their affiliation with the Elmira Jackals, which replaced their former affiliation with the Dayton Bombers as the club's ECHL affiliate.

* Paul LaPolice, former head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.

Bart was a standout running back for the Boise State University Bronco's football team in the late eighties and 1990, and played with Ottawa Rough Riders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders in the CFL as well as one season of professional indoor football prior to recurring injuries.

* Michael Bishop, professional football player with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

From that point, the team became known popularly as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Kravitz performed at the Grey Cup halftime show in Toronto at the Rogers Centre on November 25, 2007, where the Saskatchewan Roughriders beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23-19.

Bombers in Blue: PB4Y-2 Privateers and PB4Y-1 Liberators.

* Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers win 28-27 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats

* November 25 – the Calgary Stampeders win the 89th Grey Cup game, defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 27-19 at Olympic Stadium in Montreal.

Didn't I Say ", and " Bombers "/" Blue Eyes "/" OD Receiver ").

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos win 33-23 over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

* Grey Cup – Calgary Stampeders won 24-10 over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

* Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers 50-11 over the Edmonton Eskimos

* Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers won 22 – 21 over the B. C.

* Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers won 47-17 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats

* Grey Cup – Hamilton Tiger-Cats win 22-16 over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

* Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers win 21-14 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats

* Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers win 21-7 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Only Blue Throat and his gang stayed where they were.

In 1933, Bert Bell, understanding that prerequisites to a NFL franchise being granted to him were changes in the blue laws, played the primary role of convincing then Governor Gifford Pinchot to issue a bill before the Pennsylvanian legislature to deprecate the Blue Laws.

Popular commercial BBS programs were Blue Board, Ivory BBS, Color64 and CNet 64.

Belgian Blue cattle were first used as a milk and beef breed.

Blue shorts were retained, but the socks were for the first time red, with a white flash.

The downtown area through which the tunnels were to be dug was largely landfill, and included existing Red Line and Blue Line subway tunnels as well as innumerable pipes and utility lines that would have to be replaced or moved.

To speed the trials at Woomera, the test rounds were flown there by Victors and Vulcans in Operation Blue Ranger.

Blue Steel finally entered service in February 1963, being carried by Vulcans and Victors, although its limitations were already apparent.

This WE. 177 laydown weapon supplemented the remaining modified Blue Steel missiles using a low-level penetration followed by a pop-up manoeuvre to release the weapon at Forty-eight live operational rounds were deployed on 48 Vulcan and Victor bombers plus a further five live rounds as operational spares.

Blue whales were abundant in nearly all the oceans on Earth until the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Blue Angels were officially recommissioned on 25 October 1951, and reported to NAS Corpus Christi, Texas.

In 1972, the Blue Angels were awarded the Navy's Meritorious Unit Commendation for the two-year period from 1 March 1970 – 31 December 1971.

On 22 May 2011, The Blue Angels were performing at the Lynchburg Regional Airshow in Lynchburg, Virginia, when the Diamond formation flew the Barrel Roll Break maneuver at an altitude that was lower than the required minimum altitude.

The next day, the Blue Angels announced that they were initiating a safety stand-down, canceling their upcoming Naval Academy Airshow and returning to their home base in Pensacola, Florida, for additional training and airshow practice.

On 26 May, the Blue Angels announced they would not be flying their traditional fly-over of the Naval Academy Graduation Ceremony and that they were canceling their 28 – 29 May 2011 performances at the Millville Wings and Wheels Airshow in Millville, New Jersey.

When the club was formed in 1873 uniforms were not available, and most players wore Navy Blue work guernseys.

" Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Three Colors Trilogy were each made for these festivals, with Blue for Venice, White for Berlin, and Red for Cannes.

The Blue Ribbon Awards were established in 1950.

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

Blue was a particular problem, and skies and blue robes were often added a secco, because neither azurite blue nor lapis lazuli, the only two blue pigments then available, works well in wet fresco.

After the war the bodies were recovered ; 14 were reburied at Blue Beach Military Cemetery and 64 were returned to Britain.

The Göktürks or Kök Türks ( Celestial / Blue Turks ) were a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia.