kelownabomberfan

98(also here) was the lowest since 75. There were 3 factors for that. -brutality of the 91 game's weather had fans across that league saying fool me once.. -major price increase -we sucked as a team....again Those fans concerned about the weather only fooled themselves as it was record warmth that day. The '98 Grey Cup was the regarded as the Grey Cup no one wanted. The league was still somewhat in dire straits, not near the depths of 96, but only a smidgen higher. Winnipeg stepped up when no one else really desired to have the Grey Cup. It was also a period when the Grey Cup did not sell out with regularity. 96 in Hamilton - well short of a sellout despite Tim Hortons stepping up to buy thousands of tickets at the last minute. 97 in Edmonton - I remember there was over 10,000 tickets available leading up to the game which mostly sold out only because the Riders made the finals. 99 in Vancouver - 15,000 short of a sellout 2000 in Calgary - a few thousand short of the sellout. It also didn't help that the city hosted the Brier, World Junior Championships and the Pan Am Games along with the Grey Cup in just over a year. Individuals and the corporate community were tapped out. I was at the Grey Cup in 1999 in BC - total joke. So many empty seats. Friends of mine drove out from Calgary last minute and bought tickets at the door for $25 a piece, or something like that. I remember looking at all of the empty seats and feeling embarrassed, and wondering if this great league would survive. I also was wondering when I would see a Blue Bomber Grey Cup victory again. 16 years later, not much has changed.

I don't know, I don't work for the League or Lions. Again as for a truly fair comparison as you say let's see what happens when Hamilton gets the game. I wouldn't give BC a pass per se, there was little to no buzz around the Grey Cup last year and they failed to sell out, of which I found disappointing, but again that was their second Grey Cup in 4 years. Winnipeg only "sold out" the game by subtracting 5,000 seats. I love how you seem to ignore that Regina sold out their Grey Cup with only a 1/3 the population of Winnipeg, so similar situation to compare from Winnipeg to Vancouver, no ? You really don't see any other factor that could account for the difference? Well, who was in that Grey Cup again? Hmmm....oh I get it...

This is more correct than the other explanations from what I remember. There was an empty host spot for the Grey Cup game that year and Winnipeg stepped up at a considerable risk to host that game. Where were all the other cities willing to take that risk? If there was a suitable alternative, somebody should have put it forward, but they didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th_Grey_Cup

Yeah, I totally agree on that point for sure.

The coach listened to the point of taking a time-out to assess if he should throw the flag.

Wish I could have been there. I went to last year's in BC but didn't really get a chance to participate much in the festivities. I was at 2011's Cup in Vancouver, that was a blast, and of course it helped that the Bombers were in it, so a lot of Bomber fans were running around the streets and packing the Elephant and Castle. What really makes these things isn't just the events, its the people AT the events. It's truly a day (now several days with all of the events) in the year where Canadians from all over the country (and some Yanks too!) can get together and participate in something truly and uniquely Canadian. Highly recommend people go if they have the chance (and the cash!), and truly sorry I couldn't make it out this year to the event in Winnipeg. Did anyone get a chance to hang out with the Blue Bastard? He's hilarious!

Ray Ratto ‏@RattoCSN 14h14 hours ago This was a worthwhile, even delightful week spent being reminded all the things the Super Bowl should be, and never will. IGF looked great on TV!

I thought the tagline was "Our balls are bigger". Still my favorite.

Didn't Tim Burke have a streak like that going too for awhile?

great game - that's Jets hockey. Just pounded Minnesota right into the ground. Loved the Ehlers goal to seal it too. Both Buff and Ehlers got the monkey off their back, now let's hope they keep up that level of effort going forward.

I'll be wearing my 1990 Grey Cup Champions T-shirt with pride this weekend.

But can they do a 4G inverted dive?

I wish I could claim credit but I stole it from this guy: Go to the 4 minute mark.

I'd side with Russia before turkey. Russia should take over Turkey and rename it Chicken.

Turkey is going to burn along with ISIS. I just hope that all of those precious archeological sites in Turkey don't get destroyed.

I haven't been this excited for a Cup match-up since 1981. (kidding of course). Still remember the 1981 Grey Cup. The Eskimos were supposed to destroy the Ottawa Rough-riders but JC Watts had other ideas. Edmonton did prevail in the end, but clearly the Eskimos had walked in to the park thinking they had already won, and spotted Ottawa three TD's before Warren Moon went to work. That being said, I believe that the Eskimos are going to slaughter bad Hank and the gang on Sunday. Hank just can't play in cold weather. If this game was in a dome, it would have been a lot closer.

So not sure if this is the thread for it, but the government has admitted that Dec 31st is too quick of a deadline for the refugees, and have extended the deadline. http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-152541-4-.htm#152541

You eat humans?

When I am consuming a large pile of bacon, I remember that this pig I am eating wouldn't have existed in the first place if it wasn't created in a pig barn by artificially inseminating a sow solely for purposes of producing a litter to be raised for sale to the market. If you ever went into a pig pen you would see how you have to fight off the pigs, who will immediately attempt to bite you, and would eat you if you didn't fight back. I spent enough time in pig barns having to fight off pigs trying to bite me to feel no remorse tucking into a pile of pork chops. My niece is a huge vegan who loves to tell us all at family gatherings what evil people we are for eating ham and turkey. Last Christmas she told me as I was cutting a slab of ham that "that pig had a family you know", to which I replied "and whose mother would have gladly eaten him if she hadn't been forced to nurse him behind a metal restraining bar". She didn't know what to say to that.

LOL - no problem. The one that my guide had in the car was even more disgusting than that. It had feathers and everything, just disgusting, and smelled like ass. I don't know how he could eat something like that and not get horribly sick.

Nope, not me. Grew up on a farm. Have no problem eating meat whatsoever.

Thanks but no thanks, there are too many annoying peasants around here....

Or a not quite as witty Howie Mandel.

Don't you guys watch Survivor? In the gross-out food-eating competitions (which apparently are now considered "cultural appropriation") they have on Survivor usually one of the grossest things people have to eat is "Balut", which is a duck egg that has been fertilized, so there is an actual almost ready to hatch duck in the egg, with feathers and beak and everything. I honestly didn't know that people actually ate that stuff until my tour guide in the Philippines bought one and ate it while we were driving to the rice terraces (and it smelled awful in the car). He also ordered us some "authentic" Philippine food on the trip which all just seemed to be different animal intestines fried or steamed, and pretty gross. It was obvious he was just doing it to gross us out and get a laugh at the looks on our faces when we would try something. I told him after the second stop to cut it out, and just order stuff that was edible for Western palates. That may have been inappropriate, but we were starting to get pissed off.

Sure, attack the source (we see that a lot here), and yes, I admit it was an attack piece to some extent, and I also admitted that there is some real cultural insensitivity out there like dressing up in black face etc. that needs to be frowned upon in our society, but what got me worked up wasn't the lunatic lady with the food issues, it was the yoga story (I notice you didn't mention that one). That is a ridiculous use of the term "cultural appropriation" to ban yoga from a school campus, but no surprise that it is being banned at one of our uber-hip and uber-PC universities, and of course, at the extreme PC University of Ottawa, one of the worst campuses in Canada for jumping on whatever stupid politically correct trend is fashionable. Here's part of the yoga story: The verbal diarrhea coming out of that student federation president's mouth sounds extremely Orwellian, in that it makes no sense whatsoever. "Yoga-like spaces" - ??? Just ridiculous.