JohnnyAbonny

Don’t they still have that 35 year old punter from the Bahamas from last years PR around? Karl Von Schmitz or whatever his name was?

I kind of disagree there. The level of danger for a headshot or freak injury on a punt return is equal or greater for sure. I’d see way more opportunities in the soup for someone to grab and twist an ankle or a knee.

Anyone else irritated by the fact they got Janarion hurt last year by running him up the gut on a gimmick play? I’m all for using ST weapons as part of the offence, but running a 170lb returner up the middle was very foolish imo.

Hey at least Watson could break tackles.

Thompson reminds me a bit of peak Cory Watson in that highlight vid. His stride makes him look kind of slow but he’ll be a beast to bring down.

On another note, with the GC being played in Vancouver, get ready for it you guys. TSN is going to slobber all over the Lions like nothing we’ve ever seen.

How does McInnis replace Whitehead? He was there last year too no? Stanback doesn’t replace Rhymes, they play different positions. Ciante Evans is maybe a slight upgrade over Edwards-Cooper, if Evans doesn’t decline due to age. Can Stove even play? If he can then yeah, that’s an upgrade. I still don’t see how BC’s off-season does anything to rank them above the Bombers, Montreal or Toronto. On another note, with the GC being played in Vancouver, get ready for it you guys. TSN is going to slobber all over the Lions like nothing we’ve ever seen.

His mother was a hamster..

The bonus would be if we’d use the designated national rule in the first place. I’d be meh on Lucky. He’s been injured often and age will take a step off, if it hasn’t already Better off to find a good young returner if Grant doesn’t sign imo.

What if there’s an early run on fullbacks though?

Chris Jones is an idiot sometimes, but I don’t see how they pass on Dublanko I agree with Marshall’s prediction of Bombers taking Hergel. He seems to have the attitude and physicality to fit in here. If Wallace slides, maybe but I’d figure him to be on an NFL PR for at least a year or 2.

I’ve heard about that one, it would be cool to see. I’ve always really wanted to see the 1983 WSF as well, where they ended the Edmonton dynasty.

I still can’t believe we went that long without all the games being televised.

Does anyone else have a holy grail old game you’ve never been able to find a copy of. I’ve always been after the game here vs Edmonton, on a Monday night after 9/11 and/or an August/1996 game vs Calgary here, 38-36 win. I remember both being pretty wild watching live.

In retrospect the 2022 game was still the bigger piss off. 23 Montreal was on a roll. Bombers still should have won, but it happens. 22 was lost simply due to completely avoidable mistakes. Legghio’s miss and that bloody stupid call on the Prukop pass. I can get past the most recent one but 2022 is up there with 2001 and the 08 ESF as the losses I’ll never get over as a fan.

It’s hard to tell given the games have been on the same single network for so long. I seem to remember CBC talking about the game itself a little more than TSN does, but it could be just rose-coloured glasses.

Football broadcasting didn’t really evolve from the 40s until the rise of the AFL in the mid-late 1960’s. Monday Night Football was a direct answer to the innovative things the AFL were doing, everything took off from there. Especially in the states, pro football was considered a distant 3rd tier behind baseball and College football right up until the 70s. I assume it was the same here, with hockey still being the bigger deal even now.

That’s how I see it, and how the adults in my life viewed it at the time too. It chaps my ass when people mention that 95 team as the greatest of all time. They had some great players, but that team deserves an asterisk big time.

I was only 7. All I can remember is freezing, the ball hitting the goalpost, and overhearing my Dad on the phone saying “it was bullshit how they kicked those guys out” after the game. I guess referring to the shoe thing? I also remember complaining at school that it “wasn’t fair that Baltimore didn’t have to play any non-imports” and none of the other grade 2 kids having a clue what I was talking about.

After that game our cat got out and got under the deck, which is about a foot high. She got scared and hid far underneath. I had to army crawl under to get her. In the process I knelt in dogshit. Also tripped and smoked my head on the downspout. …It was still the better part of the evening.

I was too young but 88 and 89 seems like such a strange year. I’ve seen most of the regular season games and the 2 playoff games/GC. I don’t recall such a consistently underwhelming team making a run like that until maybe this past years Alouettes. Like some of the 88 games, the Bombers were SO bad. The games against Sask in particular looked like 2013. The next year, they almost did it again, while looking even worse in their losses. Then you watch the EF/ESF from both those years and it’s like someone took their controller back from their kid. (Totally off topic) 1989 was also the only year until ‘22 that the Bombers wore white at home. The whole league did, for about half the regular season games. Very odd visual here.

Anyone know much about George Una? Hodge has been pumping his tires

Not to speak for others, but I think by “hoodwink” he meant In terms of where and how he was drafted, not necessarily the best overall player pick. By that criteria I’d say it’s up there for draft success in recent history. I wouldn’t say the greatest hoodwink though, Rourke was a second rounder for one. You could also include Loffler and even Olivera as guys who were drafted later than their provided impact would dictate in hindsight.

Ironically, you’re one of the forum posters who could write as well or better than 3dn. You know it’s possible to be critical of something and still appreciate its existence right?

Some more context: Ottawa was absolutely jobbed by the officials in that 1981 grey cup game. They called (actually) the worst OPI I’ve ever seen on Tony Gabriel (on a play where Gabriel himself was interfered with twice) while Ottawa was driving near the end, with a less obvious DPI non-call the next time the Rough Riders got the ball. We think the refs are bad now and justifiably ***** about the command centre, but the 80s and 90s officials were a different level of terrible.