Rich

Interesting article on the officiating in the Hamilton / Toronto game. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/01/questionable-officiating-costs-ticats-dearly-loss-argos/ Some video clips and screen shots in there that show some clearly wrong calls, including the phantom PI call on SJ Green that the league has since said shouldn't have been PI (even though the command centre ruled it as PI on a review) The fumble knocked out of bounds by Lawrence should have been called Hamilton's ball as well IMO. Also a couple of screenshots of blatant offsides by Toronto that were never called. Some theories out there that the officials are being biased to Toronto. After watching bad Bomber teams for years, I think the refs tend to not give the benefit of the doubt to "bad' teams. Either way, another game with horrible officiating in the CFL.

https://www.bluebombers.com/2017/10/02/upon-review-wpg-28-edm-19/

Poolman makes the team.

An interesting discussion on TSN 1290 this morning. If you look back at the 2016 NHL draft, Edmonton actually owned the 2nd overall pick. If the draft lottery had unfolded according to the standings, Edmonton could have had Laine and McDavid. Don’t know if they would have ultimately been able to afford both of them, but that would be a hell of a line for a few years.

He is done for the year. When he gets back to the city we are supposed to learn some details on the why.

Congratulations to KBF! Now a proud recipient of a $50 Bomber Store gift certificate.

Preseason is over. Time to get to the real season and do it in style like only Jagr can.

Picks this week need to be in by Friday @ 7:30 PM

Cost would definitely be the biggest issue. Here is an article from 2014 and the cost for disability insurance for NFL players. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-nfl-players-dont-buy-disability-insurance/ Rookies get paid $400k if you don't count bonuses. So you are looking at losing an additional 5 - 10% of your gross pay taken out of you net pay. Not crippling, but not peanuts either. Wonder if the CFL would ever be in a position to split that cost 50/50.

Montreal is a disaster... http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/bears-woods-released-alouettes-reporting-safety-violations-union/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4927082/Silicon-Valley-engineer-founds-religion-worship-AI.html

Ticats release Ricky Collins Jr.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/saskatchewan/riders-lottery-president-makes-waves-with-pro-trump-comments-1.4305907

Yep. Remind me I forget at the end of the week and enter your pick in wrong.

The True North chant at Bomber games has been slowly losing momentum, not as loud as it used to be. Won’t be much longer until it is gone. Was mentioned earlier in the thread, but my biggest pet peeve with it at Jets games is the crowd cheering themselves for chanting it.

Picks this week need to be in by Friday @ 6PM

If Poolman / Chiarot are going to be the 7th dman, can see Poolman being sent down for the sole reason of getting him play time and not sitting in the press box. 1st call up for injuries though.

It is too big to download over cell, need wifi. Will check it out tonight. Here is a trailer