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Glen Johnson doesn't make the rules. He is also not the one who decides how the rules are to be enforced.Refs get their weekly feedback from him on how to apply the rules.The Rules Committee and BoG tell Johnson how they want the rules interpreted. It's not his or the officials' fault if they do that and penalties go up. Johnson cannot change the way they are to be interpreted unilaterally.Actually yes he can because day to day throughout the season, he's the authority. He isn't going to unilaterally decide to overturn rule changes that the BOG implemented 4 weeks into the season. That is over stepping his authority.

Ladd just needs to sign a reasonable extension now!

20 years ago maybe but Cole is an old man now and can't keep up with the play, he spends most of the games now hoping that he is sitting in the pie. Yeah Cole is so past his prime, it's not even funny. He's got to retire. Sadly, whichever yahoo who replaces him won't be any better. It's just disgusting. You might be pleasantly surprised to hear Jets Tsn TV feed guy Dennis Beyak announce a game. He has done some Olympic broadcasts as well. The TSN Radio Jets guys Brian Munz and Paul Edmonds are good, very good.But for football, I'm totally comfortable with Knuckles. Big fan of Edmonds, I wish he would do the TV play by play for the Jets. Beyak is better suited to a national telecast though. He has that non partisan "classic" play by play voice. Edmonds is great with his lines and when he gets excited. Works best when you are doing play by play for a targeted "home" team.

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Completely different team last year, not really fair to lump the two together. It is cherry picking numbers. So far, this is a 2 – 2 team. Different DC, different players. Overall, MOS is a 9 – 13 head coach. Not great, but still too early IMO to pull anything from that.

The NHL is asking for a $10 Million down payment just to be considered, and $2 million of that is not refundable. At that price you really aren't going to be getting any "tire kicker" bids.

The return of the Jets has definitely affected interest in the Bombers as well. With the Jets being away for so long, the interest and fandom that it attracted was huge. I’m sure Bomber merchandise sales have taken a hit since the Jets came back. For a long time the Bombers were the only real “big” game in town (who really likes the Goldeyes?). No matter how bad the team got there wasn't much else to follow. Now there is major competition in the Winnipeg sports scene and the Bombers really need to up their game. If the Bombers aren't playing well come Labour Day, interest will shift to NHL training camps and all the promises and hope of a sports season about to start.

He is for sure better than Black but I don't like Suitor on non Rider games either. I like Dunigan when he does colour.

It is easy in hindsight to say that the MTS centre should have been built with a larger capacity, but it was no small feat to get the thing built in the first place. The save the Eaton's group, the land, the funding. The footprint that they built the building on makes it a challenge to make the building bigger. They should have closed a lane on each side of the building to enlarge the footprint. Good luck selling that on downtown streets. And while True North had the foresight to check to make sure that the building was large enough to house an NHL team should it become available one day, there really wasn't much chance of the NHL coming back when that building was built. It was built for the Moose.

It's funny. I heard Rod interviewed on TSN 1290 during the morning show earlier this week. He actually sounds normal and intelligent ... was a decent interview. It is too bad he has developed this play by play persona of his ... sometimes I think he has become a caricature of himself.

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With the season ending in Nov it would not really be needed. I just know in January I'd rather be in the FargoDome then IGF. And they only built it for 60m which was pretty good for the time. How many events are there in January that can't be held in MTS Centre? IMO the dome isn't worth the extra cost it would have incurred.

No way I'd want a dome here. Nothing beats sitting outside for summer football. Who wants to go sit inside when it is 30 degrees outside. Not worth giving that up for a few extra events. Even love the cold weather games in the fall.

Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would disagree with you.

Oduya (aka Pizza Boy) signs in Dallas $3.75M cap hit over 2 years. Dallas has done quite a bit to improve this off season with the recent trade for Sharp. You look at these none playoff teams in the Jets conference: Los Angelas Dallas Colorado San Jose Edmonton Arizona And the Jets will be in tough to make the playoffs again next year. I'd say any of those teams with the exception of maybe Arizona has a legitimate chance of making the playoffs (not saying they all will, but wouldn't surprise me if any of them did). Vancouver / Calgary / Winnipeg may be teams that could drop out of the playoffs next year. Going to be a dog fight from start to finish. A lot of parity in the league right now.

For sure implications. Kesler is also 1 year older. Kessler though is a centre and a pretty decent face-off man. That should make his value higher than Ladd's. I still think Ladd's camp is looking for 6 - 6.5M with similar term to Kesler.

Public nudity is "banned". To me banned means you can be fined or arrested for it.

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None of us here are in a position to tell a lot of people what to do. It doesn't preclude you from having an opinion on it or discussing it. If we were only going to discuss things that we could actually affect, I might as well just shut this message board down. Coaches don't really listen to our opinions on football. I believe that we should look at these discussions and opinions we have on the deep south and do some self reflection on pre-conceived notions or things that we simply accept in our own society.

There is a high school in Alabama that has a "Rebel Man" mascot that is basically an old South plantation owner. Here is an article and some pictures of the mascot. There is a movement underway to replace / change the mascot. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama-high-school-reconsiders-rebel-man-mascot-represents-civil-war-history/

Earlier in the game, I think using pure math like this can make sense. Come the second half and especially the 4th quarter the score has to be taken into account to decide what to do. If your touchdown puts you two points ahead of your opponent, do you really want to risk that 49.9% chance (or whatever the number is) of missing your 2 point convert, or take the more likely scenario of being up by a field goal.

Throw in Kane in Buffalo and you wonder what kind of "mentors" Eichel will have in Buffalo.

hmmmm....football is a game of inches...that could catch on! Get with the times- its "a game of centimeters" now. 9.14 metres for a first down?

I don't know what that guy was doing when he was leaning over the girl, but the thing that jumped into my mind is that he was filming her laptop. I know when I'm at work my laptop could have sensitive data on it and I would be very unhappy to have someone lean in and film it. I'm betting that Skidmore and the city have a long long history. And while definitely not an excuse for how it was handled, I think it was kind of a setup on both sides. They wanted him to do something to justify them calling security. And he wanted them to do something to get it on camera. Unfortunately they both got their wish.

That is a crazy video. Re-watched it a couple of times, it looks like the guard only pulls his gun after he is being attacked. In that situation though, I don't think pulling his gun is warranted. There is a 2nd security guard in the room and if he would have defended and fought back rather than reach for the gun, he could have easily of overpowered the man. Damn lucky no one got shot. The guard should have used verbal words to identify himself and ask the man to leave before grabbing his camera. The Skidmore guy I think was trying to make a point about not knowing what the guards are when he fought back. Stupidity all around on that one.