With the Seattle Mariners in town for a three-game series, the Toronto Blue Jays hosted "The Race To End All Races," one final round of competition between Toronto's CN Tower and Seattle's Space Needle for international tower supremacy, from July 6-8, 2004. A best-of-three, "family friendly, non-violent" series, the 360-foot races across the SkyDome diamond was hosted and officiated by Late Night's most hated character, the FedEx Pope, during the 5th inning breaks of each game.
What followed was perhaps the most epic rematch in the history of competitive international tower racing.
 
After a pre-race workout set to the theme "Rocky," the CN Tower prepared for the first race against the Space Needle across the SkyDome's diamond. After a heated start, the CN Tower gained a sizeable lead on the Needle, handily defeating Seattle's tower to take a 1-0 series lead, with the finish even set to the theme from "Chariots Of Fire." Inspired by the CN Tower's win, the Blue Jays held on to defeat the Mariners 7-6.
WINNER: CN Tower
 
With the Space Needle fighting for its survival, tensions were high at the SkyDome. The contest was tighter this round, but due to some strategic cheating and rigging on the behalf of the CN Tower, the Tower cruised to victory in front of the hometown crowd, and was declared winner of "The Race To End All Races" by a now-disrobed FedEx Pope. Apparently the visual was enough to scar the Mariners, as the Jays went on to win 12-4.
WINNER: CN Tower
 
With the final game of the Jays-Mariners series originally set to host the tiebreaker race, the CN Tower had the night off to celebrate its sweeping victory of the Space Needle. The Tower, along with 16,188 Torontonians, watched the Jays replicate the Tower's earlier success, by sweeping the Mariners in their series as well, with a 10-8 come-from-behind victory. Later on that evening, the glory and insanity that was "The Race To End All Races" was featured on Late Night.