SpeedFlex27

Ha ha. ^This.

The Als play in a one hundred year old 22,000 seat stadium. The amenities suck. I don't know how the team can generate income from a facility like that based upon average attendance of 17,000. How many private boxes does Molsonhave? From what I see on television there isn't much there other than steel bleacher type seats. They need a new stadium.

Yet, these Canadian OL can't play left tackle.

Whatever. Do you really think Canadian OL are as good as Americans when they are drafted? No, because OF THE RATIO & coaches wanting to play Americans at skill positions these overpaid linemen make more money than other positional players on the team. They can go out & start when they shouldn't, get beaten on pass plays repeatedly like a rented mule, get the $400,000 starting qb injured & guess what? They get to do it again next game even though they suck. But that's okay. Let's play these useless pylons so we can play an extra American receiver or linebacker but hey, don't develop a Canadian qb because he probably sucks. Anyone watch Foucault & Chungh pull down huge salaries for the Lions last season while Mike Reilly got mugged every game while they whiffed their blocks. Remember when every Blue Bomber qb needed a paid up in full life insurance policy just to play??? Remember when the Bombers tried to rebuild the OL by drafting or trading for Canadian OL but abandoned it as the process to draft & develop would take too long? Canadian OL can thank the ratio for making them as a group one of the highest paid in the CFL as well as automatic starters while other positional players are only special team players.

No, there is no advantage having a Canadian qb on the roster. They don't count vs the ratio. I don't know if that rule has changed or not.

Probably the Iranians.

Booch, please don't take this the wrong way when I say it. I don't know what CFL team you played for or your real name but could you have been one of those Canadians who would have been kept over an American? You used a pretty broad brush there when you posted your message.

My suspicions are the plane was shot down or a bomb was planted inside.

Your first sentence... Not. A. Chance. Don't tell me a linebacker from Saint Mary's is almost as good as a linebacker from an American FBS or FCS team. My son played in Northern California before he came to SFU. He played against these crazy athletes from America Samoa. These guys were pushing 300 lbs & could run down running backs from behind. Super strong, athletic & lightning fast there is no ******* way any Canadian in U Sports would have played against guys that good. That's just the Samoans. For every one great player U Sports produces there are 10-20 NCAA players as good or better than him. I watched enough college games down south in person to say you're 100% wrong. The Canadians get the chance to develop because they have talent, potential & the ratio to allow it to happen.

Well, he hasn't played since 2015 so his playing days are over & therefore I have no more skin in the game, so to speak. I do feel that if we don't at least TRY to develop these U Sports qbs then why have 7 starters that have to be Canadian? Just get rid of the ratio & let all Americans play. Then watch the interest in the CFL start to wane especially with high school aged players who would probably decide not to play the sport as there'd be no way they could make a CFL team. There has been talk of reducing Canadian starters to 5 with that idea getting a lot of blow back from fans. So, I'd suggest a lot of people actually do care if Canadian qbs do play. So, to answer your question, if my son didn't play qb then no, I'd probably not care. However, having a son playing qb NCAA D2 at SFU, I saw first hand the way the CFL ignores Canadian qbs like they don't even exist. Since that time, the CFL & U Sports have a program where young qbs spend training camp with CFL teams. That wasn't really available back in the days my son played. Had it been, my son would have been ineligible to participate as it would have contravened the rules of the NCAA as he would have been considered a professional & not be allowed to play his senior year back then. U Sports has no such rule. Having said that though, I still think we should be developing young Canadian qbs if they have the potential to eventually start.

Whoops. See below.

Heartbroken or not, it's still 29 years.

Most Canadians when they're drafted aren't good enough to play yet the CFL will spend the time & money to develop positions like on the OL, DL, linebackers, receivers, running back & secondary. Why bother, right? just play all Americans. problem solved. Wipe your hands of it.

CBS has blocked it.

Another kick to the nuts of any Canadian qb out there that think the CFL is finally getting serious about developing them.

Most [people fail with just a simple home based business like baking cookies & selling them. maybe they make enough money to afford a few nice things around the house. How the hell did Spiegel start up a steel company?? How do you start up a steel company from scratch?? That is amazing.

That's news to me.

Questionable taste in scarves as well. For a guy who played so many years in the CFL I'm shocked about the way he's running the league from changing rules on the fly to this CFL 2.0 thing. There seems to be no real plan on how he's doing things. Just flying by the seat of his pants.

Can you say chronic? I knew ya could.

I'm not going to do a Top 100 List. It is much too time consuming & would literally take hours if not days so it ain't happening. If anyone wants to do one then have at it, I say.

Can you even name a hundred players? Somehow I doubt it.

Hey, I just asked a question. Whether you don't like it or thinks it's petty is of no concern to me especially since you want to argue about it. I won't be commenting further.

Hope you're wrong. I'd hate to see the bankruptcy can kicked down the road a few years.

I just asked a question, Dee. I can't help it if the guy shows up at every news conference wearing scarves. Didn't think it would upset blue_gold_ 84 so much. Enquiring minds need to know. 🙂