The Calgary Grey Cup Committee will be in Moncton this week to help celebrate Touchdown Atlantic, the first-ever Canadian Football League regular-season to be played outside of a CFL franchise city.

Already famous for annually demonstrating Western warmth and hospitality at the Grey Cup Week celebrations, the volunteer Calgary Grey Cup Committee will be in New Brunswick to take part in the festival that precedes Sunday’s game between the Edmonton Eskimos and Toronto Argonauts.

The Calgary Grey Cup Committee’s famous chuckwagons and stoves will be rolling into Moncton on Wednesday, Sept. 22.

As is the group’s custom, the Calgary Grey Cup Committee — which is represented by 20 volunteers in Moncton, not to mention a band as well as mascot Charlie Horse — will host free pancake breakfasts at Saturday’s Touchdown Atlantic Street Festival and Sunday’s tailgate at University of Moncton Stadium.

In addition, 2007 Calgary Stampede queen Amanda Kochan and one of her princesses, Caia Morstad, will take part in the festivities.

“The Calgary Grey Cup Committee will do what it does every year — provide hungry football fans with foot-stompin’, barn-raisin’ fun!” said Calgary Grey Cup Committee member Dave Miller. “We are proud to be a part of the Touchdown Atlantic celebrations.”

“The Calgary Grey Cup Committee has been an integral part of Grey Cup festivities for more than six decades and we are very pleased that they will be bringing the same Western flair and Calgary pride to Touchdown Atlantic,” said Stampeders president and COO Lyle Bauer.

This represents the first time the all-volunteer non-profit group Calgary Grey Cup Committee has taken its show on the road to an event that wasn’t a Grey Cup. This is also the farthest from Calgary the organization has ever travelled.