SpeedFlex27

Being a father & witnessing the birth of my 2 sons.

Ownership will do diddly squat. I'd love to see what another GM would do & the things he'd change. Chipman owns or his family owned car dealersships around Winnipeg. I'd loved to have worked for him. Even failure is rewarded. Don't sell a car this month? Hey, we'll just double your salary. No worries.

There was this guy. MLB Mickey Doyle 1970-73. Also played for the Stamps & Lions during the 74 season. Knee injury in the 72 Western Final blew out his career. A Western Conference All Star in 1972. Middle photo.

Stage 5 & 6. 8. Both management & coaches have had their chance. It's time for a change after 11 years. The problem is our owner & how committed he is to winning or continually rewarding his friends even when they fail.

One of my favourites Defensive Tackle Joe Critchlow #53.

Wish Buck well in his fight against cancer.

That was a big dude.

Casey got his degree in medicine from the University of Manitoba. He attended classes & studied while playing for the Bombers. He interned in Winnipeg & London, England before settling in Connecticut where he practiced medicine the rest of his career.

"Terror must be maintained or the Empire is doomed. It is the logic of history."

One of my favourite Blue Bomber player. Middle Linebacker Phil Minnick #54 chasing down Ti Cats Halfback D i c k Cohee during the 1965 Grey Cup. A bad knee injury early in the 1970 season required Minnick to miss nearly two full seasons as well as having played on some very bad football teams after this Grey Cup appearance prevented Minnick from being mentioned as one of the CFL Elites at the middle linebacker position. Had he stayed healthy & played on competitive Bomber teams, I believe he'd have been mentioned with players of his era like Jerry "Soupy" Campbell, Mark Kosmos, Don Bahnuik, Ray Nettles & Wayne Harris.

That will be the last time she will have talked to him.

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Ron Lancaster won something like 4 games in Saskatchewan before he was fired. He then went into broadcasting for the next decade being an analyst on the CFL on CBC broadcasts & used that time to figure it out. He became an elite head coach in Edmonton & Hamilton. My guess is he learned to surround himself with great assistants & delegate authority. I think he learned to manage people.

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Jeezus, that was 39 years ago. Brock said in his book that he was wrong & wished he had stayed in Winnipeg. As a fan, I have no ill will towards Brock at all. Also, he played in an era where the Eskimos had the greatest run in CFL history winning 5 Grey Cups in a row. We were very good as a team but they always were a little better.

I was able to download this photo of Guard Ed Kotowich #56 blocking for Gerry James #28 in the 1958 Grey Cup.

I stopped posting here as I can't downlaod most photos. And I can't insert images from URL. Doesn't matter what browser I use. Notghing works. I just gave up.

The Germans exterminated 6 million Jews along with another 5 million POW's so let's just stop there. Whatever Hell was brought down on them from the sky was as a result of Adolph Hitler's & his fascist Nazi party along with military & genocidal policies that had the full support of the German people. Same with the Japanese. They were butchers in occupation & killed millions of innocent civilians & POW's in Asia. Whether it's one bomb that killed a hundred thousand or 2000 bombs that killed 50 people each, war is an atrocity. But we reap what we sow. History has shown time & time again that it seldom turns out well for the conquerors. In this case, the German & Japanese.

In the 1962 Grey Cup, Van Pelt was the special guest of the Blue Bombers as he had been discharged from the US Air Force & the Bombers GM Jim Ausley wanted him to come back. He ultimately said no. That must have really impressed Ploen, who was the 1961 GC MVP at qb. I wonder how pissed off he'd have been during that game?

Thanks to that stupid rule, Hansen's salary is capped at what it is. Ridiculous. If a player works hard he can't be rewarded because he's from Germany. Only in the CFL.

I think Don Jonas should be in there as he had one 4,000 yard season & Schenley MOP in 71. Then a 3800 yard season in 72. Took a team that missed the playoffs for 4 straight seasons (1967-70) & was a league laughing stock with just 2 wins in 1970. In 1970, the Bombers averaged maybe 12000 fans a game while the team kept losing & losing. They stunk no matter who played qb. When Jonas arrived, the air was filled with footballs & excitement with high scoring games. Tickets were hard to come by in 1971 with sell outs a common thing. With Mack Herron running & Jonas chucking the ball & Thorpe, Larose, Markle, Ribbins & Kraemer catching the Bombers became a hot ticket. The Bombers made the playoffs & finished third in the West at 7-8-1. This led to expansion of the West Side of Winnipeg Stadium from 21000 to 25,000 in the off season. In 1972, the team went 10-6 & was just one stupid flukey play away from going to the Grey Cup losing the Western Final to the Riders. The team was in dire financial straights until Jonas et al showed up in 71. But it was Jonas who poured the drink & stirred the contents. The Bombers would have been nothing without him. He literally saved the team frrom folding. I grew up in that era. I remember the two biggest high profile athletes in Winnipeg at that time were Bobby Hull of the Jets & Don Jonas of the Blue Bombers. The City loved them both.

With Saunders signing we won't miss Kenny Lawler. We don't rebuild. We reload. Love it. To me, this is the missing piece to give us the best receiving corps in the CFL.

Because we've heard this so many times before. BIG STORM!!. Take cover. Then we end getting a few flurries. Or it's a run of the mill storm we see every winter that barely slows anything down. Lots of people like me get jaded. It also doesn't help when news readers & DJ's take it upon dthemselves to ad lib forecasts & change the wording to shorten them or to hype them up over the radio. OTOH, I've also heard the same news readers & DJ's downplay a forecast & give it a 10 word summary. "Periods of snow" then become "flurries". So a forecast of "periods of snow with amounts of 10-15 cms" becomes " Flurries today. Maybe 10 cms" which happens all the time. (That's all part of the lousy communication the public gets over the radio as discussed by Scott Kehler). On air people don't have the expertise to interpret the forecast so take an extrra 30 seconds, read the forecast as released from Environment Canada & don't change them.

CHQR radio here in Calgary spent a half hour on their talk shows speaking to emergency coordinators & reporters from CJOB yeaterday about the storm that never was, All I heard was "we're prepared", "Environment Canada told us that it'll be the worst storm in decades" & the next day we're going to get walloped with snow from Ontario". Gotta hype even when there is no hype.

Yes, Sam was but he was still good enough to be drafted by an NFL team. My point is about Sam being gay. Who cares? Fans would have to be pretty naive to think gay players haven't been playing professionally for as long as these sports have been around. So the "Openly Gay" designation shouldn't even be mentioned but hey, it's 3DN always looking for click bait.. We no longer call Vernon Adams a black qb. Rasheed Bailey a black wide receiver. Brandon Alexander a black safety. Willie Jefferson a black defensive end. Even half a century ago, Adam Bighill would never have been called a white linebacker. I know tht **** Butkus & Ray Nitscke were never referred to that way. Brady Oliviera is no longer called a brown running back. Sure, 50-60 years ago when players of colour were starting to play certain high profile positions that used to be reserved strictly for white players like QB, Running Back, Cornerback, MLB & Receiver the race card was prevalent, But not today. We still do say players are Americans, Canadians or Internationals in the CFL but that's because of the ratio rules only. It has nothing to do with being gay or race.