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2002 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season

Canadian Football League season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4600639 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2002 Winnipeg Blue Bombers finished in second place in the West Division with a 12–6 record. Due to the Ottawa Renegades entering the league, the Blue Bombers moved back to the West Division. They appeared in the West Final, but lost to the Edmonton Eskimos.

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“2002 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season” enters the record as canadian Football League season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Winnipeg, Blue and Bombers can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Winnipeg, Blue and Bombers.
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“2002 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Winnipeg, Blue and Bombers provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4600639. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “2002 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.