johnzo

nothing to add, I just like seeing this in print.

Nashville sucks. Those jerseys of theirs look like a pee-filled ashtray. Yellow and grey, what colorblind fuckstick signed off on that ******* garbage? Leafs suck the shitpipe like a Skydome sump pump. Forget the equinox -- Leafs Elimination Day is the real first day of spring. Here's hoping for an early spring this year. Ideally, the Leafs will move to Salt Lake City this offseason. In conclusion, **** the Leafs. Vegas sucks. Hockey in the desert is stupid. Pack that **** up and move it to Quebec City. Plus Vegas stole the Raiders and now they are stealing the A's. **** Vegas. They are a thief city. Speaking of thief cities, the Avalanche suck. Stole a Stanley Cup from Quebec City. Je me souviens. I hope their zamboni crashes. Kings suck because the NHL has been a **** league since Gretzky landed there. Oilers suck because they were so loaded that they could sell Gretzky to the Kings and still win a Cup two years later. I'm still bitter about 1990. You should never win anything after trading the GOAT. Plus, did you know that Peter Pocklington is from Regina? Vancouver sucks because their fans are manbabies who riot win or lose. May they be loser rioters this year and every year following. Dallas sucks. Everything is bigger in Texas. Thus, Dallas sucks bigly. Boston is an interesting edge case in suckage studies. On one hand, it's a **** city, its harbor is made of sewage, its weather is awful and its population is highly contrary. Rooting for the Bruins will put some black mold on your soul. On the other hand, I really truly 100% appreciate how they devise a new heartbreak for the Leafs every year. Go Jets (and Bruins)

I've got my fingers crossed that Calgary Stampeders Classics will upload the September 1983 home game vs. Regina. That was my very first live game and the day I fell in love with the Bombers. I grew up rural and had never seen 25,000 people in one place before! Not only that, it was Tom Clements' first game as a Bomber.

I think there's a second tier of all-time running backs for people like Washington, Mimbs and especially Fred Reid. Will always be a Fast Freddy fan, he and Terrance Edwards were two guys worth watching on the terrible Bombers of 2009-2010 and his big game against the Lions is one of my top ten favorite bomber games. I think if Chris Garrett hadn't have torn his Achilles, he would've been a great CFL running back. That dude looked complete to me -- power, speed, and moves.

I don't know about who met with who when, but I do know that it was not Salisbury's decision to leave the Bombers. We cut him in late October, early November -- do QBs really catch onto the NFL in October or November? Plus, hard to imagine any CFL coach, much less Kindly Cal, doing their QB1 a solid and releasing them to chase a better opportunity just two weeks before the playoffs. We lost seven games in a row to end that season, the final two a home-and-home to the 2-14 Rough Riders. The team was dead on the table and needed the crash cart. Salisbury played great in the East Semi that year, winning in a snowstorm. It's fair to say that he didn't really light it up in the Grey Cup (tho what QB plays well in 60km/h winds?) but there's no way in hell that DeWalt or Muecke would've even gotten us to the title game. We would've been smoked by the TiCats in the ESF with either of those guys behind center.

What are the precedents for players being not just penalized by the league, but outright banned? Justin Cox Manziel Marino Nate Holley Arland Bruce the younger Am I missing anyone? All but Marino were off-field bad guys. Cox and Holley were domestic violence doers, Bruce bet on his own games, and Manziel would not comply with whatever conditions the league imposed on him.

only 83 days left until the season starts. Then we can replace the offseason lunacy with regular season lunacy.

The CFL changed its playoff format in the 1986 to allow four teams in from a single division, but it wasn't with a crossover: instead, the two-team division played a two-game total points series and the four-team division played a 1vs4 and 2vs3 semifinal round. This boned the first place finishers, who didn't get a bye. I think I like the modern crossover rule better. Got to make the regular season meaningful; don't take the bye away from the 1st place team.

Another recent CFL upload by youtube hero Calgary Stampeders Classics. This one's interesting for historical reasons, it's the mid/late-dynasty Eskimos against an Als team that was stacked with big-money imports including QB Vince Ferragamo. That Als team went 3-13 and it was the start of the 1980s decline of the CFL in Montreal. Had never seen Ferragamo play before. He threw 7 TD passes vs 25 picks that year. According to a youtube comment, Chris Walby is in there somewhere playing on the DL for Montreal. Haven't spotted him yet. And damn that stained and seemy turf is terrible, and the Big Owe is only five years old at this point. What a boondoggle.

Fellow Fantasia watcher here.

Our OL was just outstanding in this game -- and Clements matadored everyone who leaked through. I think we got a little lucky in this game, facing Tim Cowan instead of Roy Dewalt. Cowan couldn't hit the broad side of a barn -- he was playing with a bad elbow.

Watched this gem last night. Check out Clements' footwork!

I have had lots of creative hobbies over the years but nowadays I mostly play drums and write songs with my hobby band. My band is all gen-x people so we're about rock but some country will creep in now and then. We don't gig for the most part, occasionally we'll play a backyard or a pub but we're mostly about "mom and dad get away from their kids and get loud." This is my favorite of our recordings -- something my band and I threw together during pandemic lockdown. it's a weird electro jazz thing, totally not what we would usually play live.

should've been more clear. I think if a safety leads the team in tackles, like Lysack did in 2005, that safety probably played on a pretty shitty defence.

When it's a safety who leads the team in tackles, that is definitely an indicator of something...