SpeedFlex27

Thanks for the recap.

I don't think Mike will lose any sleep if you do.

According to 3 Down Football, Orridge didn't take a lot of interest in the actual everyday workings of the CFL. He was more focused on the marketing side than the football side & after 2 years it really showed with all of the off & onfield problems. That just isn't right to concentrate on one side of the league at the expense of the other & like Mr Dee said, he just didn't get it. What a freaking waste hiring Orridge. Glad he's gone. He may have been the worst Commissioner we ever had. Worse even than that grumpy old bald guy they hired back in the early 90's. I think his name was Donald Crump if I'm not mistaken. There was a guy every camera mic hated. Crump The Grump.

Just based on how he's totally effed up the league by being the head of officiating, please no.

I think the CFL should split the responsibilities. One, the Commissioner who is a football man. May have been a former GM, personnel director or coach. He liasons with teams, media & fans. His sole responsibility is to guide the league thru anything related to the onfield product from rosters to game situations. The other position would be CFL President or some other title. He works behind the scenes working on increasing revenues thru sponsorship & corporate deals. At times, they may work together on special projects like a new TV deal but generally they wouldn't. Instead of hiring a useless twit like Orridge who didn't seem to know anything about football & especially the CFL then name him Commissioner while being thrown headlong into the fire, split the duties but have a football guy handle the league, teams, media & fans.

Odell "Stupid Is As Stupid Does" Willis.

Hire me. I have a wonderful face. Tremendous face. Bigly.

Guess Reigns is taking time off to do a movie with his "injuries" tonight.

I have read that Patterson wasn't an innocent party over the years & some wrestlers were afraid to be left alone with him in a room as they feared he'd sexually assault them. Being a veteran they also felt that if they complained their careers would be finished in the WWE. Not the nicest guy either when it came to hazing young wrestlers. I don't have any specific stories I can quote just things I've read over the years about Patterson.

I read his message on Instagram. He says he has problems with his head & body because of injuries. He didn't specify what, though. He also said that he feels this is the right time to leave & has no doubts or regrets.

Agree. Ballsy move but if you have an employee that refuses to listen to the people he answers to & it's getting worse then there's no alternative but to fire him. The timing is bad but it is what it is.

You realize you're talking about our GM, right?

No, that's being an alarmist. This won't trigger a world war. Russia knows they'll be obliterated as do the Americans so there's a lot of rhetoric & bluster going on. Now that North Korean son of a *****? Yeah, that's a bad situation. If he actually launches a nuclear missile to attack Japan or even the Western US. That's what we should be truly worried about. He could trigger a world war.

Esks fans are lining up berating Rhodes on Esks Fans, 3 Down Nation & social media. They blame Rhodes for everything & talk like Ed Hervey was a saint when he wasn't. They say the Esks erected a big black fence years ago around their practice facility which bothered a lot of fans as they felt they didn't have access to watch their team anymore like they could before it was erected. Somehow that was Rhodes fault but not Hervey's even though both weren't around when it was built. Hervey was the GM. If he didn't like that fence & cared about the fans then as GM he could have torn it down & replaced it with something else so fans could watch. Clearly he didn't care about those same fans that seem to have his back here & are spitting mad about his firing. It's been reported that the team's BOD's never consulted football ops about the mic games last year & rather than agree, he felt that he had to back Maas who was dead set against it. Hervey's continuing stifling of media access to players means less stories in the local media yet Hervey didn't care much about that either. The way I see it, the guy was refusing to get along even with Rhodes & the directors of the team whom he answered to which generally doesn't end well for an underling trying to pull a power play. The Esks board hired Hervey & they chose to fire him. I bet he thought they'd never do that. He was wrong.

Yeah, read for years that there was sexual harassment & assault going on with some of the wrestlers. One guy in particular who is a WWE Legend & homosexual. You can't say McMahon doesn't know what's going on.

Ha, ha at the end I thought Balor would turn on Seth.

That's what I was referring to about Seth Rollins. When he came back, had it been as a face he'd have been massively hot but as is the WWE, they failed or more likely refused to recognize that & kept booking him as a heel & it eventually backfired. Now he's a face & until his victory over Triple H at WM, nobody seemed to care anymore.

JBL always had a rep as a bully. That's no surprise. If he's a close friend of McMahon he'll probably stick around. As far as the WWE anti bullying campaign & being hypocritical about Layfield, it's all about image. Does the WWE actually care about bullying in school or the workplace like the ads say? Probably not. All the storylines are about bullying in some way. Do they care about sick kids or women's breast cancer? Maybe but it would be no surprise to me if they didn't & just saw supporting these initiatives as simply marketing of their brand/product.

Styles & Joe I knew before they came to WWE/NXT. Rollins is a phenomenal wrestler totally wasted.

can someone recap the story? I can't get past the paywall.

I just hope Chevy does something this summer regarding personnel to make this team a contender instead of thinking the real Jets are the ones we saw the last 6 weeks when we were out of playoff contention. We won games but there was nothing left to play for.

If Hervey had wanted the team mic'd up he'd have told Maas who would have done it. Hervey & Maas were complicit in their decision not to mic up.

So glad he's done here... Hopefully to never return in any capacity with the Bombers.

http://www.3downnation.com/2017/04/07/3down-podcast-ed-hervey-got-fired-might-replace/