{"id":62294,"date":"2015-10-02T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62294"},"modified":"2016-05-31T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:56:47","slug":"calgary-stampeders-clinch-post-season-berth-thanks-to-montreal-alouettes-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/02\/calgary-stampeders-clinch-post-season-berth-thanks-to-montreal-alouettes-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Stampeders clinch post season berth thanks to Montreal Alouettes loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62295\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/crop_21662913123.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62295\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/crop_21662913123.png\" alt=\"The Calgary Stampeders are the first team to clinch a position in the 2015 Canadian Football League playoffs. (Photo from the Stampeders' website)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/crop_21662913123.png 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/crop_21662913123-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Calgary Stampeders are the first team to clinch a position in the 2015 Canadian Football League playoffs. (Photo from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stampeders&#8217; website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CALGARY \u2013 The Calgary Stampeders became the first team in the CFL to clinch a playoff spot for the 2015 post-season on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/20\/drew-tate-leads-fourth-quarter-comeback-as-stampeders-down-roughriders\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Stampeders were guaranteed a post-season berth<\/a><\/strong> when the Montreal Alouettes lost to the Ottawa Redblacks 39-17.<\/p>\n<p>That result means the Stampeders, who will finish no lower than third in the West Division, can not be bumped from the playoff picture by Montreal in a crossover scenario.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the 11th year in a row the Stampeders have qualified for the playoffs. The B.C. Lions and the Alouettes are the only other teams who have qualified for the playoffs every year since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY \u2013 The Calgary Stampeders became the first team in the CFL to clinch a playoff spot for the 2015 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":62295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-62294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}