 However, the Alouettes' demise came so latee that the June 28 "Washington Post" still announced an ESPN broadcast of an Alouettes–Stampeders game, a game that would never be played.The team did play both of its two preseason games on the road before folding.To balance out the divisions, the easternmost-West Division team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, moved to the East Division to take the Alouettes' place (along with this, the "cross-over rule" for the playoffs was scrapped and until 1997).