kelownabomberfan

maybe we just don't hire a DC this year and just run the Chewbacca defense all year instead.

I'm not buying that Hamilton is "up and coming". Winnipeg was "up and coming" in 2011 and then fell apart. Without Burris winning the games in the nice weather days of July, August and Sept I don't know where Hamil-smell will end up this year. It's all about the QB.

Just watch - he'll accuse Joey Elliott of bullying him after he gets "dumb-assed" during training camp.

Your hatred of Burke is blinding you from admitting that our roster is GARBAGE. Burke is an abysmal HC, yes, but you seem to think that just because Lapo took the team to the GC that it was an above average club. We rode to the GC on the strength of a 7-1 start (fuelled by Burke and Harris's defence). Once teams figured it out, remember how we sucked arse for the balance of the year and basically stumbled into the cup, whereupon we were anally pounded by BC? And how did we improve after that GC pounding? Buck Pierce, Goltz, a bag of garbage, oh, and Sofa Muamba. I feel bad for O'Shea (and Walters). They have a lot of work to do.

If we miss the playoffs again this year the team should still show up to the festivities in Vancouver and just play in the Vanier Cup instead.

That is a good point.

good luck to Inman, he's a good one.

Which would be in our favour as we don't throw any passes over 15 yards anyway, meanwhile we'd be able to give our secondary a chance to stop all of the long bombs.

They should have written his name "BRENDAN DUNN". Either stick to the all-caps meme or don't.

I would. Limit the damage on a bad/stupid call.

A little of column A, but mostly column B. It helps to win the Grey Cup once in awhile, though Huffer hasn't done that since 2008.

after our experience on offense with an American guru, I for one applaud going Canadian on the coaching staff. Let's hope that it works out. I'll be cheering for him for sure, always good to see Canadians make good in our league.

This year? I thought Reinebold was their ST co-ordinator. Or are you talking 1999? Oh 1998 - I see now. Worked with Ronny Lancaster. Cool.

Oh man, how's he supposed to focus on the game with all of that pressure knowing the Edmonton scouts are watching?

I saw this one - it was for cat food - at the end of it, it says, 'All natural food for your cat.' All natural food? But cat food's made out of horse meat. Yeah, that's the way it works in nature: the cat, right above the horse in the food chain.

yeah, the number three on the depth chart is going to be known soon as the "Joey Elliott" position. At least, on good teams. On Winnipeg, it could be known as "starting in Week 2" position.

Yeah there were a lot of three step drop-backs and throws out to the flat, to Reaves, Kehoe, Cantner you name it. Hamilton was eaten alive on those plays. Then in the second half when Hamilton adjusted for the swing pass Clements started hitting Boyd and Murphy for long bombs. The last TD of the game thrown by Huffer in the last few minutes was beautiful too, Huffer just stood there for what seemed 10 whole seconds while the Oline just demolished the dead tired Hamilton D Line, then he fired a laser beam into Jeff Boyd's midriff. Huffer wasn't very mobile, but he was deadly accurate.

Getzlaf, Muamba, Laurent, Cornish, Harris But he's quite possibly 6. Cauchy ahead of Cornish? hmmm....

I'll see what I can do. The guy I got it from left a lot of the ads from 1984 on the DVD too - talk about cheese-ball commercials and horrible graphics! But totally funny! Man has advertising come a long way in the past 30 years. I hope those hairstyles never come back, just plain horrible.

that's great news - unless she's also Jason Vega's long time GF...

I received a DVD of the 1984 Grey Cup game from Mrs. KBF for Christmas and I have now watched it again - it's nice to watch it without the ESPN Classic edits, as you get to see how Huffer came in in the first half and reversed the momentum that Hamilton had going and moved the team down the field with a nice drive to get a FG and keep the Bombers in the game while Clements got his head together. If Huffer hadn't come in and calmed the entire team down with a nice long drive, who knows what could have happened. Anyone else have the 1984 game on DVD? Well worth watching, as of course, the Bombers were awesome, and it does the heart good to see that, given how much suffering we've endured in the past few years/decades. A few comments: - Bombers linebackers back then were awesome. Tyrone Jones was just nuts - if an OL fell asleep and missed him on the rush, he was gone and on top of the QB before you could say Odell Willis. - Joe Pop - just wow. That guy had hands like a vacuum cleaner. Just caught everything thrown his way. - Clements - what a difference a QB makes to a team, especially a mobile one that could throw accurately on the run. - Bomber receivers - we seemed to run exclusively a four receiver set with a running back and full back on the field, no five receiver sets that I could see. Still somehow James Murphy and Jeff Boyd were open all of the time. And of course, Joe Pop and Rick House at the slotback position, just amazing how those guys could get open. - Bomber secondary - nothing flashy - with the pressure that the front three plus Jones were getting on Brock in the last three quarters, Dieter was crapping his pants and making bad throws, so the secondary just had to make sure not to give up the big plays. Sure helped to have a lot of experience with David Shaw and Ken Hailey back there. Other changes to broadcasts that have occurred in the past 30 years: - it's sure nice to have a first down line now. I could never tell how close the Bombers were to getting a first down as you couldn't see the sticks and there was no yellow line on the screen to help. - Real time interviews with players on the sidelines during the game - that was weird! I had to feel bad for the Hamilton players being interviewed on the sidelines in the 4th quarter when they were getting pummeled, and the interviewer is asking them "what went wrong" - come on man! - There were a lot of blown calls that would have been reviewed and over-turned in 2013, that were just shrugged off given there was no chance to complain back then - you just accepted the call and lined up. One blatant blown call was when a Hamilton player grabbed Clements and forced him down to one knee, then Clements got up and threw a long strike to Joe Pop. That would have been over-turned in this day and age. It made me see how the review process we have now is actually making the game better. - Was it my imagination or did punters stand at least five yards further back from the line of scrimmage back then than they do now? Ruoff and Cameron looked like they were in another time zone when they were standing back there to punt.

looked like Mulumba got injured in the playoff game last night. Too bad, he was looking good out there, getting at least one sack that I saw, getting lots of pressure on Kaepernik, sort of reminded me of a young Tyrone Jones!

Calgary needs to get off their asses and build a new stadium ASAP cause Mcmahon is really showing it's age. It may not be the worst one in the league at this point but it's not good either.You live in Calgary like I do. I don't get a sense that any new stadium is on the horizon. Do you? I went to school with Nenshi at U of C and I would bet good money that the day he was at the Stamps game this year for the flood ceremony was the first time he had ever set foot in McMahon. He wouldn't know a football from a bucket of KFC. A new stadium has to be championed from the highest levels of civic government, and what with all the dough that had to be blown on the Saddledome this year I doubt McMahon is going to be a priority for a long time to come.

Alberta is too busy right now propping up the rest of Canada to build new stadiums.

has anyone been keeping tabs on the state of the Hamilton stadium? How far along are they in recreating Canada Inns/Mosaic?