Article content There are three certainties in Canadian Football League life. Death, taxes and the Edmonton Elks finding new and inventive ways to football games at Commonwealth Stadium. The team that came out of the bye week with 17 days rest between games, put together an absolutely monstrous effort to give themselves a chance to win for the first time this season.
Instead, they suffered yet another walk-off field-goal loss Sunday — their third in as many games, if you can believe — to remain painfully winless at 0-5 on the season, with a 37-34 defeat at the hands of the Ottawa Redblacks. The Elks blew a 15-3 lead only to turn around and get outscored 28-4. Then they came back from trailing by 12 points in the fourth quarter to tie it 34-34 with eight seconds left, only to lose on a 38-yard field goal by Lewis Ward as time expired.
But this one shouldn’t have gone this way. It was supposed to be the Elks recharging their batteries and reloading their roster over a 17-day break between games to capitalize on back-to-back weeks against the lowly Ottawa Redblacks. You remember, the same team that came into Edmonton last summer to finally end the North American record 22-straight home losses that will forever be a blemish on the franchise.
Beating Ottawa in this home-and-away series could very well have (somehow) put the Elks right back into the playoff picture, potentially tied with the rival Calgary Stampeders for third place in the West Division, had things panned out .