5 takeaways from the Stampeders Labour Day victory over Elks

When football players go to work on the first Monday in September, they want to have some fun.

After all, what’s that they say?

‘All work and no play …’

Makes for losing a Labour Day Classic?

And so it was the Stamps enjoying the most playtime — and fun — in the traditional Labour Day affair, with a 28-7 victory over the visiting Edmonton Elks at McMahon Stadium.

Three touchdowns by the hosts — on a 22-yard TD strike to Dominique Rhymes thrown by QB Vernon Adams Jr. along sidelines of endzone helped put the home side up 7-0, a sensational third-quarter punt return for a TD by Erik Brooks and a quarterback dive by Quincy Vaughn — and zero allowed by the home-side defence was the difference.

The Stamps also got 33- and 49-yard field-goals from René Paredes in the Battle of Alberta clas