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one of my favourite lines today....

No word yet on if this will be made public, but they've found a way to cobble footage of the entire game together........... For 26 years, one of the greatest single-game accomplishments in CFL history had gone largely unseen. On July 14, 1994, Matt Dunigan made pro football history when he threw for an astonishing 713 yards in a game, carrying his Winnipeg Blue Bombers to a 50-35 win over an Edmonton team that had beaten them in the Grey Cup in 1993. In the immediacy of the game, the sports world took notice. Dunigan recalls Sports Illustrated writing something about the feat and for the weeks after that early season win, it was the conversation that followed the Blue Bombers everywhere they went. But unless you were one of the fans at CanadInns Stadium in Winnipeg, you didn’t get to see Dunigan rattle off touchdown passes of 88, 55, 45, 35 and 33 yards. The league’s television deal wasn’t what it is today, where TSN has exclusive broadcast rights and the airing of every single regular-season and playoff game is a given. RELATED »Watch more Remote Reunion episodes » O’Leary: How the 2009 Alouettes dipped into the fountain of youth » CFL in 40 presented by CDIC: 2009 Eastern Semi-Final AFTER AN INJURY MADE HIM A SPECTATOR IN WINNIPEG’S 1993 GREY CUP LOSS TO EDMONTON, DUNIGAN WAS VERY MOTIVATED TO GIVE EDMONTON HIS BEST WHEN THEY MET IN WEEK 2 OF THE ’94 SEASON (PHOTO: THE CANADIAN PRESS) The Edmonton-Winnipeg meeting in Week 2 of the season went un-aired. For 26 years, fans and even Dunigan himself have relied on the boxscore, highlights and written articles to preserve that one monstrous night. “I’ve seen clips before, bits and pieces,” he said from his home in Destin, Fla. “Of course, everybody knows that that game wasn’t televised, which is mind boggling. It’s a Grey Cup rematch, Week 2 of the following season. We had a point to prove, I think as a football team.” We all know that it happened but all these years later, it almost feels like a folk tale that’s been passed along through a generation of football fans. That changed this year. With the help of Mark DeNobile at the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and a collaborative effort between some CFL and Bombers employees, some admittedly rough footage — but complete footage nonetheless — of that game has been uncovered. Dunigan, along with his former teammates Chris Walby, Miles Gorrell, David Wililams, Alfred Jackson and Bob Cameron were able to finally see it in its entirety and watched it as part of CFL.ca’s Remote Reunion series, driven by Kubota. Adam Marshall, CFL.ca’s coordinator of video content, reached out to TSN looking for the game and found out they only had a limited highlight reel. Eventually, a call was made to DeNobile at the hall of fame in Hamilton. He dug around the hall’s archives and found a VHS copy of the in-stadium feed that aired on the big screen during the game. Marshall had to convert the VHS tape to digital and then work to fill in the blanks. There is no play-by-play of the game, no graphics on the recording. That’s where Bluebombers.com’s Ed Tait came in. Tait, who had written the above-linked Dunigan story when he worked for the Winnipeg Free Press, shared the original stat sheets from the game. That let Marshall figure out where the game was and allowed him to set up the video with timestamps and the score, for the players to watch. So often, you hear an athlete or a team in the wake of a monumental performance say that they’ll process it later, that they can’t remove themselves too much from the moment. With the players reunited to watch this game in its entirety, they were finally able to get the chance to do that. “The train just keeps on moving,” Dunigan said of the players’ mentality in the moment. “It just keeps on rolling and you don’t have time to reminisce, to think about what just happened. You’re just on to the next one. You make the corrections, you game plan for the next game and your focus is elsewhere. “As time goes on, I think you do have the opportunity to reflect and then you get to see it in different aspects as time passes. It’s been a pretty unique process since ’94 to watch this memory struggle and move forward to stay alive. It’s good because it was one of those magical nights and I’m not out there by myself. We’re a football team that had to regroup from the loss in the Grey Cup and the first regular-season game on the road (in 1994) to BC. Our focus was on the task at hand and that never changed.” You can see in the video how Dunigan analyzes the tape and sees small mistakes, opportunities to have done even better than the 713 yards he threw. It’s a different generation of football, rife with opportunities for quarterbacks to air the ball out in a way that you don’t see as often anymore. Dunigan lamented the absence of Mike Kelly on the conference call. Dunigan’s appreciation of his offensive coordinator at the time and a lifelong friend is obvious in our call. If you think of Dunigan and the Bombers’ offence as a symphony working in unison that night, Kelly was the conductor, piecing it all together. Being in the moment and on to the next game back then, Dunigan said there wasn’t really time for the players to process that this historic game went largely unseen. Games fell through the broadcasting cracks back then, Dunigan said, and players just accepted it. Of course, now a key part of the CFL on TSN broadcast team since 1999, Dunigan’s living in a completely different football world than the one he played in. “The TV agreements weren’t like they are now with TSN giving millions and millions of dollars every year to to broadcast their games and to be their partner,” he said. “It just wasn’t something we thought about. We were trying to win football games.”

Hi everyone, Riley Marra here from the Blue Bombers. We just announced that we will be replaying (commercial free) the WSF, WF & GC on our Facebook Page and website. https://www.facebook.com/BlueBombers/posts/3897550863611179

Remember, the Dems only need 50 seats in the Senate. In case of a tie vote, the deciding vote is cast by the VP, who happens to be...

Waiting for some comments from @Colin Unger- he popped in when Trump was winning. Curious on your take on the "conspiracy" and "voter fraud"......

Apparently not enough tushy kissing is to blame

What you lose in Vegas, stays in Vegas

Getting kicked off Twitter will be the least of Trumps worries after the 20th of January.

yeah I have been thinking that if Trump loses he should be kicked off of twitter for good

Getting Joe Biden into the highest office will go a long way to America getting their **** together re:COVID. Having someone that listens to doctors can only help....

Dobson and Jackson are big enough to burn diesel. Lord, I am missing my CFL. We ought to be deep in CFL playoff bickering by now.

If and when Biden is proclaimed President elect I wonder if both the FBI and CIA will keep a closer eye on Trump until the day he is removed from the WH.

Yeah, I’ll take ICE T over Ice Cube...anytime.

Some will break away but he's so wildly popular that it may be to their own demise. I would love to see that party pulled apart. It deserves everything it gets. The thing is that they have a very popular news network that will attack the Dems for four years and work to rebuild everything for them. It's an arm of the GOP.

Trump saw that running for the GOP nomination would boost his brand and his failing, debt-ridden empire and forestall yet another bankruptcy. His sycophants saw him as an antidote for the unbearably nice Obama years when that uppity coloured man stained the American dream. It took a perfect storm of racism, sexism ihnorance and religious bigotry to install him as president. The 1% who supported him have been paid back handsomely in tax cuts and government handouts.

why didn't he just do that in the first place? maybe then we could have been spared 4 years of hell

more from Ed with Kyle Walters: https://www.bluebombers.com/2020/11/05/cfl-announces-changes-2021-draft/?fbclid=IwAR2sfblYDxYntQAErytnixLmnZJbebzVejabnAFn0n8BnxEiTuwGpyZf5Wc

I'm pleased nothing is happening with the schools. I'm still a bit anxious that they will move to remote only but not for Monday, it seems.

Bringing back football into this.

Just basing it on the new restrictions that were put forth at the beginning of the week, it's not a complete lockdown but I'm hopeful that it will be enough to lower the cases, if people follow the restrictions and are vigilant with masks, sanitizing and washing hands religiously and if they can get a handle on the care homes and hospitals then there is no reason that the next cycle of cases with be much less, well at least I hope so.

I'm curious what you're basing your optimism (cases go down in a few weeks) on? As far as I can understand, as long as people keep doing what they're doing, numbers will keep going up....

Trump simply cannot navigate troubled waters.

I GOT MY WISH!!!!!!!!!! Thanks BB.com -- this is what we needed. See ya's in the chat room on Sunday afternoon!

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There is always a tweet.

god this day is getting better https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/tech/steve-bannon-twitter-permanent-suspension/index.html

Georgia voters this morning hahaha (seen on reddit)

So no getting cans of cherry coke for a long while then =\

Sooooo...same old, same old. And the paranoia and hysteria will increase as reality sets into his diseased mind. Then everything will hit the fan.

The clearest clinical definition of insanity is the inability to act in one's own best interests. That says it all about the US these days. Edgar Cayce was a seer who lived about 1885 to1945 and made many accurate predictions, said that if America did not resolve its class divisions and struggles, it would lapse into internal violence, economic and political decline and be broken down the middle along the Mississippi river through geologic upheavals. During this time, power would pass to the west. Seems to be coming to pass.

Trump is fighting for his civilian life he knows what waits for him the moment he steps off WH property

God. Even worse than I thought "I am giving an update to protect the electoral process" Followed by talking about States he won with "legal votes" and lost or is losing States with "illegal votes"!!!! And he has warned these States, about it!! Wall St. special interests, and Democrats conspiring to rig a "fraudulent" and "corrupt" election against him. Blabbing on about secret counting rooms and fake ballots. Promising a "lot of Litigation" moving forward to fight the results - in order to save the country. There is more - but you get the picture. Absolute garbage. Trump will go out the same way, he came in - a completely mendacious and serial lying fake.

Anyone else here really looking forward to the sweet sweet irony of Fox calling Pennsylvania for Biden tonight before anyone else and cementing Biden's presidency, after trump's dunking on fox for not being sycophantic enough...? I am!

So far, 2. Possibly a 3rd and forth come Jan5th run off. I missed the days when I didn't give A F about the names in the US senate. Since trump became POTUS, I know the names of 80% carbonate members (past and present), most of his enablers and most of his damn family- there should be no reason to know that much... when people were doing a competent Job in the Whitehouse... I didn't even know the press secretary's name... I am looking forward to tuning out again.

Further from our man Tait:

Alabama cop calls for the murder of Biden voters: 'Put a bullet in their skull for treason' In the town of Flomation, Alabama, a far-right police captain stepped down following an outcry over a social media post that called for the murder of Joe Biden supporters. https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/alabama-police-captain-resigns-following-outcry-over-facebook-post-calling-for-violence-against-biden-supporters/ (I have little doubt that he will be re-elected. This is a prime example of America's mindset among right-wingers.)

They should get 4-5 guys and just tip him over..

This is the ideal, and how it should be, otherwise they are not true judges.

Looks like they are going to have 2 run offs in Georgia for Senate.

From a Politico story, today.... Watching Trump’s lead in states evaporate or disappear because of mail-in votes is some galactic-level karma,” said a frustrated Trump adviser.