OneRepublic was the pre-game headliner. For the main event, that distinction clearly belonged to James Butler. Itching to make a big-time impact to start ...
It’s a nice surprise,” said Rourke of the blowout. Case in point: his 17-yard touchdown run on a bootleg in the third quarter. And he was a mere yard away from a fifth touchdown in the fourth quarter. Newcomer Sione Tehuema had a pair of sacks as the Lions were outstanding on both sides of the line of scrimmage in this one. We knew it was going to be a packed house in BC Place. We definitely wanted to give the people a reason to come back and we wanted to execute. Obviously, it’s more fun to play defence while you’re ahead but the interceptions that they made were good interceptions,” said Campbell. We had some new guys make plays and then those DBs that got the interceptions. TJ Lee had two of the interceptions with the others coming from Loucheiz Puriofy and Garry Peters in the late stages. “Just preparation and the team having faith in me. They were blocking their butts off,” said Butler of the overall performance. What will they get out of the running game this season? OneRepublic was the pre-game headliner.