Vernon Adams Jr.'s four touchdown passes pull Calgary level with the Riders

TSN's Week 18 highlights of Calgary's 37-31 win over Saskatchewan left the network's other weekend football and hockey uploads behind, and the comments went straight to the Riders' kicking.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 74,642 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (5,916).

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Calgary 37, Saskatchewan 31, and the West Division got a little more crowded. Vernon Adams Jr. threw for 242 yards and four touchdowns on Friday night, and the win moved the Stampeders into a tie for third place with the very team they had just beaten.

TSN's full highlights of the game reached about 73,000 views in their first 23 hours. A regular upload on the channel usually ends its first day closer to 6,000, and this one did it while the channel as a whole was having a slower day than usual. The rest of the weekend went up around it: Montreal's home win over Winnipeg, a reel of Tyson Philpot's 11 catches for 207 yards in a game where the Alouettes receiver set new CFL single-season records for a Canadian in both receiving yards and receptions, and a run of NHL highlights from Saturday night.

The comment section filled about three times faster than on a usual first day, and it reads like a post-game call-in show. Some viewers stop to admire how hard and how accurately Adams throws. Riders followers keep returning to two missed field goals and an old complaint about the team's kicking in close games, and a few now ask out loud whether Saskatchewan might miss the playoffs. A busy thread is about empty seats at Mosaic Stadium.

Calgary supporters are not celebrating without reservations, either. One of the more debated comments comes from a Stampeders fan who is happy with the win and still unhappy with the defense, and others point out that Saskatchewan's late touchdowns came with the game mostly decided.

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The numbers

A CFL highlights reel ran far ahead of the channel's usual first day, on a day when TSN's overall views sat below their normal level.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,916

this video

74,642

subscribers

973,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

644,717,463

views per day

126,309

typical day: 474,210

the video

views

73,100

likes

186

comments

36

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

First Things First

1,110,000

Overtime SZN

1,100,000

TSN

973,000

NFL on ESPN

907,000

TMZSports

883,000

NHL on ESPN

878,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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