kelownabomberfan

I'm surprised that Marcel hasn't entered into the discussions yet on the Rider job. Or has he? And yes, I am starting that rumour, now all I need is Pedersen to tweet it.

You lost me here. The home team is a huge factor. The 2011 Grey Cup was sold out because the Lions were in it. I know because I saw about 30,000 fake fans show up for the game decked out in orange, who probably hadn't been to a game in years. The Cup last year wasn't sold out because the Lions weren't in it. It wasn't "trendy" to be there so the fake fans didn't show up. I was in Abbotsford a few weeks ago having lunch with a guy, and he has Seahawks and Canucks season tickets. Almost everyone in the restaurant that he knew also were Seahawks season ticket holders. When I asked him if he went to any Lions games he just laughed at me. It's not "cool" to say you are going to the Lions game I guess.

Wow... That is kind of awesome. Not really. No NDP governments anywhere would be more than kind of awesome, it would be fantastic.

The Liberals in BC and the Sask Party in Saskatchewan are defacto Conservative governments. I expect the Conservatives and Wild Rose to merge under the Wild Rose banner in Alberta to wipe out the New Dumbs in the next election, if Notley and her gang of tax and spend loons even make it to the next election before there is a recall.

Apparently BMO is going to operate with 17 yd. endzones, 3 yds shorter than regulation. and to placate the Toronto FC soccer fans, several times during the game Argo players are going to fall down and start writhing like they've been shot, then pop up again and walk off the field under their own steam.

I guess when they introduce these things to Saskatchewan we will find out.

Kirk Penton @PentonKirk Hey, it's a start. #GreyCup attracts TV audience of 4.3 million, up from 4.1 million last year. #CFL

Did you post them somewhere?

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