SpeedFlex27

It's a dumb article primarily written to get clickbait. Maybe the Ti Cats need to apologize to James Butler for woefully underpaying him.

There were other guys who were better.

What the hell is he talking about?

That's cold. Really cold.

Yeah, time to go in more ways than one.

Is that rthe real life clown who wears an evil closn mask when his team is 1-234456 in the standings? if so, then go retire, already.

These guys are crazy.

Jay Washington needs to be in the debate as well.

I've always pumped Reaves tires but most younger fans don't remember him. They just remember Charles Roberts.

They originally built it to hold 42,000 but expanded it for the World Student Games to 60,000 which was ludicrous. I went to the 78 CWG & really liked the place at that size. They should have kept it at 42000. It is Gi-Normous now.

And yet... Here you are. Gracing us with your presence, Your Lordship.

No, we have a pretty good discusssion going here about QB tandems & playoff crossovers with a bunch of posters. I'd say that ain't lunacy or a failure to communicate.

They won "nothing" because the politics of the CFL at the time wanted an East-West Grey Cup, even if the West won 11 more games than the East had Montreal made it to the Grey Cup. As it stood, the Esks won 9 more games than the Rough Riders. It was politics to do nothing about the imbalance of the East back then for 15-16 more years. The CFL wanted their East-West Grey Cup & they got it. And were ridiculed for it for a decade or more as the subject always came up every year. As far as the 81 Grey Cup went, give credit to Ottawa for punching a fat, sassy & overconfident Eskimo team in the mouth in the first half of the 81 GC. But all it did was wake up the sleeping bear in the second half.

In the next decade, the OL in the CFL & NFL would grow.... big & heavy. The Dallas Cowboys in the 90's set the standard for all OL's to follow.

Yeah, Michael Ball doing the Riders. Shits & giggles. Lol. The Little Gnome got fired. Ha, ha.

Just an aside but former CTV sportscaster Peter Young in his online commentary today Just A Minute said he'd heard the Elks are valued at $11 million but the Directors want $20 million for the team. So, we'll see.

Or your knees.

MY Mother & father grew up on their farms in Manitoba. Neither of them were excited about gardening but man, could they ever grow things in our very large backyard in the 50's & 60's. There was dill, green onions, tomatoes, carrots, beets, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, corn & potatoes. We had flowers around the house & in a flower bed out front. My Dad planted three crabapple trees in the yard & they gave us fruit for years. Either crabapple pie, jam or wine for my parents or guests (but not me). I loved to eat those crabapples right off the branch. I'd usually stuff my pockets if I was leaving the house. Great memories. then they got into their mid 50's & they decided to stop & my father sodded the back yard.

There is talk about building a new 30,000 seat stadium for both the Elks & Edmonton's Canadian Soccer League team. It would require government money to get it done. I just shake my head thinking they'd actually tear CWS down. Couldn't they renovate it? Reduce capacity to it's original 40,000? Fix the concourses, washrooms & concessions areas to bring it up to modern standards? Add more private suites. I'm not a civil engineer so I don't know if that is possible. However, it's almost 50 years old. So, maybe it is time to get rid of it. The demolition cost would be a pretty hefty bill all on its own. I think it tells you about the tale of 2 cities if Edmonton built a new stadium for the Elks while in Calgary, the Stampeders are still stuck in that shithole of a facility called McMahon Stadium because the politicians down here just don't give a **** about the CFL.

It'd be a bigger blow if they ceased operations. Every team in the West used to be community owned.

I'd like to see Jim Barker do a mock draft. At least he knows the players & could probably do a very good job but it's TSN so it'll never happen. Instead we have Hodge.

You have no clue. You can stick to your ideology like some feckless zealot while ignoring the facts. The Edmonton Eskimos finished first in a very tough Western Division where a 9-7 Rider team didn't make the playoffs in the West while a 3-13 Montreal team did in the East. The Rough Riders at 5-11 had the the worst record of any team to ever play in the history of the Grey Cup. The Esks should have blown the doors off of Exhibition Stadium in Toronto with Ottawa yet instead got their asses handed to them in the first half. The Rough Riders had a 20-1 halftime lead over the Esks. The Esks charged back scoring two touchdowns in the third quarter & 11 more points in the fourth while the Rough Riders scored only a FG in the second half. It was a Dave Cutler FG with only 3 seconds left that gave Edmonton a 26-23 win. So, do I think the Saskatchewan Roughriders could have beaten them that day had they made it to the GC? Yeah, damned right I do. Marino's no afterthought. Go have another drink.

Oh yeah, I had another hobby before I had to stop coaching football with my arthritis, which I did for 15 years. Won a five of 6 city of Calgary football championships & four provincial titles coaching pee wee (10-12) bantam (13-15) & spring league (15-17). I was a HC for 1 city & provincial win at the pee wee level. I also founded a bantam team in Calgary called the Falcons in 2005. I was given 6 footballs by the league & that was it. I built the team from the ground up, had to buy equipment, find a practice facility & was also the HC. Recruited my coaches, manager, treasurer & started in January 05. We played our first game in August. Out of 8 games we won 4 but misssed the playoffs. Other teams thought we'd be a pushover but we weren't. We could run & throw. Our defense had some players that became All Stars. It was so much fun but a ton of work. I now sit as a Board of Director of the SE Calgary Colts. Love what I'm doing as I can still contribute to our organization in a positive light as well as still be associated with football in some way.

The difference is we don't go online with our comments other than here. There are too many fanbois masquerading as actual football journalists at 3DN. It hurts their credibility. They could easily have better writers giving us better content but obviously don't want to pay for it. So, you have guys like Hodge & Ryan Ballantyne doing pieces for them. You get what you pay for.