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Sigh. I would be judged harshly in Turkey I know Father Time is undefeated but this baldness thing is like him taking a dump on my centerfield logo. Total Duron Carter move.

Yeah, the Riders D was beyond horrible that day. We won the game, we deserved to win it, but we did not have a worthy opponent on that day. As for all the multiverse talk of us winning 2024 with a non-Zach quarterback -- I don't believe it. The Argos D was playing out of their minds all game. It works have been a huge steal for us to beat them. They deserved the win.

Adams reminds me of a Kevin Glenn. Definitely good enough to start, good enough to win games, has hot streaks where he puts up wicked numbers ... but never manages to stick around and make a home for himself.

oh man that is some peak eighties Cancon, thank you gentlemen.

I'm doing all my vacationing in Canada this year so I'm there and hopefully the blue and gold will be too! halftime acts always suck live. you could put the Beatles or the Who out there and they'd suck. stadiums sound terrible.

2010: powerful and wise aliens warn humans away from Europa. 2025: Roughriders sign Europa.

Also did you folks get to see the blood moon last night? Looked great here in Seattle, our overcast cleared at the perfect time

give your head a shake and look at the competition. Jupiter has a moon with a freaking subsurface ocean that's got the NASA scouts drooling. If Uranus goes through with changing their name to Urmama the entire gas giant playoff picture is transformed. Saturn has to pay Collaros to stay relevant. in conclusion, **** the offseason.

Lunar eclipse tonight! Just like the CFL, you've got to refresh your talent to stay on top of the solar system.

I am not a computer security person, but I work with them, and it's a joke that a website with the supposed reach of twitter can be DDOSed. Amazon and Google face worse and don't even flinch.

Andor is great. Star Wars leveling up.

Nice to see Bolduc in the league. He was part of the terrible final Rough Riders team of 1996 and played a bunch of snaps at RB when the Roughies couldn't afford injury replacements. From the outside, looked like a good team dude.

Elliott seemed like one of those guys who was a real gunslinger but was just about 5% less awesome than he needed to be. Definitely had some good games, though -- had high hopes he would be the guy to turn the Bombers around.

what if I told you there was a place where you could enjoy all the great vibes of a CFL bye week .... for seven straight months?

I'd put this down to the difference between sports -- the gap between the AHL and the NHL is way smaller than the gap between college football and pro football. The NFL has had plenty of clueless quarterbacks, guys who just couldn't function at the pro level like Boltus.

on one hand, you're not wrong, but on the other hand, I wouldn't use GDTs to win any arguments except arguments about the emotional stability of MBB posters.

back in the day the Ottawa Rough Riders had a fan group called the SouthSiders named after the rowdier "south side" stands. they were a hoot, good fans to hang out with, and they had some swag. they really embraced the South thing, with Confederate battle flags, pins that looked like Confederate cavalry badges, "south will rise again" t-shirts and stuff like that. This was a decade after the Dukes of Hazzard aired so that stuff seemed like just harmless fun. then I traveled the world a bit and figured out it's pretty ******* serious business to a lot of people. always wondered what southern US football players thought when they looked up in the stands and saw the stars and bars waving to celebrate a big defensive play. If they cared I hope they just thought we were clueless.

We got a good season from Dressler in 2016, he was a thousand yard guy and led us is catches and yardage. Was always a Dressler fan so enjoyed see him playing for the good guys. but yeah when the Bombers don't get good results from signing veteran receivers. I'd add Nick Moore and Chris Matthews to your list of vets who haven't worked out.

I'm surprised the salary cap jumped like that -- is the league healthy enough to spend $3.6MM more on salaries?

After ten years of development, Blue Origin's New Glenn flew for the first time early this morning. It put its second stage smoothly into orbit. We didn't hit our stretch goal of landing the first stage on the recovery barge, but getting into orbit on our first try has us all grinning. (I work for Blue Origin)

speaking of being old, this is where my brain went with that:

Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith was in the Guards ... this year's Damian Jackson?

So much of this varies by situation that it's really tough to talk in general about a living wage (read the wikipedia page on Poverty in Canada for an overview about why poverty and income studies are so complicated) A Blue Bomber who has no obligations beyond his monthly xbox live payment is gonna have a lot easier time living on C$70K than a guy who's supporting his spouse and two kids in Vancouver on that wage, or god forbid sending money back to the USA. The exchange rate is murder these days.

correct. I made it an annual income in order to compare it with Canada's poverty line. The math doesn't change, though. Think about it in terms of month expenses -- Canada's poverty line divided by 12 is $2700-$3300 a month, and the minimum-wage PR player is only making $3000 a month (plus housing expenses) before taxes so they're in the poverty neighborhood during the football season ... unless they get a good housing stipend, PR money over the minimum, or unless they can burn offseason savings during football season.

answering my own question. Practice roster players make $750/week (before taxes) + housing allowance. Housing allowance does not count against the salary cap. As an annual wage that's $39K before taxes. Canada computes the poverty line differently for different regions because cost of living differs between downtown Vancouver and rural Quebec. It varies between $32K and $40K annually as of 2020. So right away you've got 13 guys per team making wages that are right around the Canadian poverty line (without counting housing allowances, which I've got no insight into.)