kelownabomberfan

Don't worry about information from practice being leaked to the Stamps. It's all being handled internally.

I thought we were still blaming Harper.

I thought I saw this on Huffpoo, I'll go check.

But seriously, who orders Whole Hog catering at a Bar Mitzvah?

so one more game with stupid sexy Flanders carrying the load...

Very Dieter Brock like throwing motion.

Macleod Bethel-Thompson - sounds like a guy I'd be meeting at the club for vodka martinis and oysters Rockefeller.

I'd be showing the whole team these scenes from Miracle all week: You don't defend them. You attack them. You take their game, and you shove it right back in their face. We shut them down, because we can. Today, we are the greatest football team in the world. You were born to be football players, every one of you. You were meant to be here today. This is your time. Their time is done, it's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing what a great team Calgary has. Screw em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!

Calgary got hot that year just as Winnipeg got cooler later in the year. In this case both teams are white hot. One team has to start cooling off. I would prefer it to be Calgary but that's a tough one this year.

same with her grinning idiot husband.

right now being named president of Venezuela would be an easier gig...

only the Canadiens have to have a bilingual coach (with a French last name). The Alouettes don't have to (is there a reason that "Alouettes" on this site generated a spelling error notification?)

Definitely reminds me of the 1981 season. We had a great football team, but unless we could convince Joe Montana and Jerry Rice to move to Winnipeg we weren't going to beat the Eskimos that year.

Melvin (Fritz) Hanson In the early 1930s, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were tired of losing to the Regina Roughriders and decided to do soemthing about it. What they did was to recruit some top notch imports and the best of them was Fritz Hanson, out of North Dakota. Hanson weighed only 145 pounds, but had incredible speed and elusiveness which earned him nicknames like "The Galloping Ghost," "The Golden Ghost," "Twinkle Toes" and the "Phantom Flash." Hanson joined the Blue Bombers in 1935 and helped lead Winnpeg to the first Grey Cup by a West team, upsetting the Hamilton Tigers 18-12. Hanson would go on to play with Winnpeg until 1941 when World War II got in the way and Hanson joined the Canadian Army. Hanson briefly returned to play for Winnipeg again in 1945, playing in at least one exhibiton game before his Army duties forced him to retire for the season. In the 7 years from 1935 to 1941, the Bombers went to the Grey Cup 6 times, missing only once in 1936. Besides 1935, the Bombers and Hanson won two other Grey Cups in 1939 and 1941. That first win in 1935 was the big one though and while very few stats are available from that era, Hanson had over 300 yards in punt returns that game including a 78 yard return for a touchdown. Hanson won West All-Stars (there were no Canadian All-Stars until 1962) in five straight years from 1937 to 1941. Hanson would go on to finish his career with the Calgary Stampeders in 1947 and 1948. The 1948 season provided a suitable bookend to his first year in 1935 as the Stampeders were undefeated and went on to Win the Grey Cup. That Grey Cup was memorable both for the Stampeder fans riding horses into the lobby of the Royal York Hotel and for the sleeper play that won the Stampeders the game. Fritz Hanson was an easy choice as an inaugral member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963. Fritz Hanson passed away on February 14, 1996.

yeah now give me five bees for a quarter.

I just wanted to add that this year I couldn't accuse anyone of dogging it out there. Even DeLeo was working hard. Its clear that these kids know they have to impress. Waked is on an ELC try-out so now I know why he was trying to take peoples' heads off out there. Last year the one thing I didn't like was that it seemed like a lot of the kids, especially Petan, didn't really give a crap. This year was miles better in that department, and at least I felt I got my money's worth this time.

you should start wearing an onion on your belt now, so that you can let those youngsters in 2045 know that it was the style at the time...

Yeah the TSN database guy doesn't work Sundays. His kid must have logged in and been fooling around.

It was Spacek/Fronk/Waked - best line for the Jets.

LOL

After that perfectly timed hit on Gurley by Loffler, I went from man-crush to full on totally in love.

Right, I got that as soon as I looked at the roster and saw that Morrissey wasn't on it. This guy looked pretty good out there: http://jetsnation.ca/2016/8/24/jets-invite-kristians-rubins-to-young-stars-tournament-in-penticton Stallard was playing on a line with Roslovic and Connor, and they had a few scoring chances. The line buzzing the most was Spacek/Fronk and Harkins (or was it Gennaro?) They seemed to be moving fast and making some chances happen. Jets defence was definitely not in sync - Kostalek and Stanley on the PP looked like they both couldn't see each other, kept missing on passes. Green also didn't look that good either.

Laine and ?