A thrilling finish to Saturday night’s clash between the B.C. Lions and the Montreal Alouettes was marred by violence as a post-game brawl erupted between the two teams at Percival Molson Stadium.
After Sean Whyte kicked a 44-yard walk-off field goal to secure a 21-20 win by the Lions, the TSN broadcast captured footage of an altercation on the sideline featuring dozens of players from both teams.
Tempers flared after the game Lions/Alouettes game in Montreal tonight 👀 pic.twitter.com/AwYiqWcs0H
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) July 6, 2025
The apparent incident appeared to kick off when Lions’ defensive lineman Kemoko Turay went to enter the tunnel to the Montreal locker room and began verbally sparring with Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund. The Alouettes’ defensive lineman lunged towards his opponent and was held back by members of the team’s staff, but still received a blow to the face from Turay.
An unidentified player in street clothes then entered the fray from the side, and a melee ensued with punches being thrown by all three parties. Turay was eventually placed in a headlock and wrestled to the ground as Lions players rushed to his defence, hopping over the advertisement boards as the incident descended into chaos.
“Apparently, someone tried to get into our locker room, and you’re just not going to get into our locker room. You’re on somebody else’s team,” Alouettes’ head coach Jason Maas told the media afterwards, admitting that he did not witness the incident.
“I don’t know what happened. I know our team, our guys, did not feel very good about someone else trying to step into our locker room after that game, but I’ll let everything get sorted out. I’m sure they got plenty of video on it to see what did transpire. I don’t think any player around the league needs to go into an opposition locker room right after a game, let alone that kind of game.”
In a statement provided to 3DownNation through a team representative, Turay said that he was having a conversation with Alouettes’ offensive lineman Jamar McGloster, who he knew previously, when he was approached by another individual who was trash-talking and telling him to leave the area. Things then escalated, with him claiming it was Adeyemi-Berglund who landed the first punch.
The veteran Canadian pass rusher had a different interpretation of the events.
“I don’t really know why (it happened). I wanted to give some passes to my family because they were here visiting and they (Turay) were already in our locker room, screaming profanity and throwing punches at coaches and players. What else can you do?” Adeyemi-Berglund told Joey Alfieri on the Alouettes’ post-game show.
“This is where we’re at, this is our locker room, and somebody is entering the locker room. It’s not gonna fly, man. It is what it is, we’ll let things go how they go, and I don’t really got to say nothing. You just got to protect the locker room. It’s our players in there, it’s our coaching staff, it’s our trainers — we don’t know what’s gonna happen.”
3DownNation contributor Pablo Herrera-Vergara was on site and captured the following video in the aftermath of the incident.
Turay is in his first CFL season with the Lions. The 29-year-old was a second-round pick of the Indianapolis Colts in the 2018 NFL Draft and later spent time with the San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons, and Carolina Panthers over a seven-year career derailed by injuries. Through five games in B.C., he has recorded six defensive tackles and two sacks, including one on Saturday.
Adeyemi-Berglund, a native of Dartmouth, N.S., is in his fifth CFL season and second as an Alouette. In 72 career games, the former first-round CFL Draft pick has amassed 97 defensive tackles, 14 special teams tackles, 24 sacks, and one defensive touchdown. He was the East Division finalist for Most Outstanding Canadian in 2024.
Fellow Alouettes defender Tyrice Beverette called out the Lions for a lack of professionalism regarding the incident.
“Honestly, I heard about it, I didn’t see it because I was at the back of the locker room, but we can’t have stuff like that. This is a professional league, professional players, things like that are unacceptable,” he told Alfieri. “I heard that they handled it, but going forward, things like that shouldn’t happen.”
The Lions have had three players fined by the CFL for committing non-football acts in the last two weeks. Both teams are expected to receive supplemental discipline from the league next week.
Editor’s note: This article was compiled using key files from 3DownNation contributor Pablo Herrera-Vergara.
