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Of course we can point to it. He's free to disagree.

There is no contract once he's released. He can try and propose the former contract's terms but the simple argument to counter that is "If the Riders didn't think you were worth keeping with that contract, why would we?" The best I would do is offer him a fair contract and then offer to throw in paid storage for his tour bus until February of next year.

I would have used the word "ballsy"!

Wilder is good, I've already said that, but is he Harris good? Something tells me he doesn't have the same heart as Harris, but we'll see.

Ok, then ya, good luck with that too!

Ummm, from Wikipedia (the knower of all knowledge): In the Victorian Era, a variety of conditions which affected women were referred to as "a case for the vapours". Lady's tight corsets could squeeze their internal organs, including the lungs, and could restrict breathing causing the wearer to feel faint and to require "the vapours". A description of someone having "a case of the vapours" was sometimes used for a person in a state of emotional agitation. Seriously read Tennessee Williams, broaden your horizons!

Wilder will be coming into the season with two things working against him. There's film on him now, and the defences he's facing will be as fresh as he was when he came into the league. My guess is that he'll be good, but not "Bluto getting the vapours" level good. As for 2000 yards rushing in the season, ya, good luck with that.

Sadly, because he didn't become a starter in his first year, he's a total bust of a 1st round draft pick. Might as well cut him loose now and get it over with.

Exactly. Hopefully, he learned.

I was about 18-19 at the time and was with the Forces Reserve at Minto Armoury. We were having an open house and I was tasked with manning a table with some of our equipment laid out. He came up and asked if he could interview me. That was something new and I probably looked as nervous as I felt. So he went over what he was going to ask and when I was ready, we started the interview. Everything went fine until he started with "one last question". Then he asked the real question. "Is the Reserves just a Boy Scouts for old men?" Not too cool to put a 18-19 year old newly promoted corporal on the spot like that. Would have been fine if it hadn't been a try at a "gotcha" question.

I would maybe be ok with a 15 yard penalty, but in the end zone, the ball should be placed at the 1.

The imagery is... disturbing...

Anyone seen the tour bus at/near the stadium?

I'll have you know that I have it on good authority that the Argo have tens of thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands of fans. In fact that have so many fans that they jam up all the entrances to BMO field because the teaming throngs are all trying to get in and the same time and as a result, there are just a few hundred that make it through the doors before the log jam occurs. Here's a snapshot outside just one of the gates:

I'm hearing of this new fangled thing called market research. I understand its something that, believe it or not, is more effective than idle speculation on websites and can actually show the market potential for a product or service. We can only hope that the CFL is aware of this amazing tool.

Eight guests to do a two hour show on CJOB? They're only going to get about 3 minutes of talk time each.

I think he's probably just getting the tour bus painted and tuned up.

Why don't we just hire Gabriel Byrne to go over and sing it to him on our behalf.

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But not enough to keep him also says something, no?

Of course experience is good. JSK has experience as a MLB. He's done well in what we have seen of him and no matter what he's a definite upgrade over Hurl. What makes you think that Reed would automatically be a better choice, other than he's had more CFL experience. I'd argue he's had less Bomber experience than JSK, so that being the case, I really can't say that Reed would be an upgrade. I also look at the fact that he's still not been picked up. That might mean that his "ask" is too high or that maybe there's something else that's worrying.

Urinal cakes and rolls of toilet sitting in an open field will look unusual.

I think that the idea of "fear factor" is that it's supposed to be the other team that's afraid...

I don't believe that because I've heard on this board and read in a couple of outdated web pages that it takes at least a year to recover. Coming back any earlier almost guarantees that the affected leg will fall off.