Two Montreal Alouettes accused the CFl of favouritism towards the Saskatchewan Roughriders while speaking to a French-language radio station Thursday.
Injured safety Matthieu Proulx and his replacement, Etienne Boulay, dropped the bomb during an interview on Montreal's CKAC AM, an all-sports station, just days before the Als will play the Roughriders in the Grey Cup at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium.
"It seems like the league wants to give us problems by forcing us to do crazy stuff," Proulx said. "In our minds it's clear they want Saskatchewan to win the game. I'm going to drop a bomb but I don't really care ... it got worse this year than it was last year."
To back up his argument, Proulx pointed to the hotels the teams were allocated by the CFL and the dressing rooms.
He said the hotel the Als are staying in is well below the standards of the hotel the Riders are calling home this week. Saskatchewan is also using the Edmonton Eskimos dressing room while Montreal has been relegated to the cramped visitor's room.
"This year again, we still got the cheapest hotel," Proulx said. "We have the visiting locker room, which is small, and we can't use the training room there. But we don't really care. It sucks at first but we got over it.
"Our goal is to win the Grey Cup. We're going to do that, take it back to Montreal and party with our people."
Boulay agreed with Proulx's statement that the Roughriders are getting preferential treatment in Edmonton.
"I feel like it's a slap in the face," Boulay said. "I'd be crazy to think otherwise. It's obvious they put the Riders in the five-star hotel. We're still in the cheap hotel with small rooms that aren't adequate for our needs.
"There was no pool, no hot tub, no ice baths."
Boulay added that the team is using the perceived snub as extra motivation to win their second consecutive Grey Cup. The Als beat the Roughriders in the championship game last year in Calgary.
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