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Yeah, the TSN shots from the corner seats made the field look really distant.

great to hear! I'm pretty sure a Canadian card will work, I don't think the CFL cares about where the money is coming from, just about where the video is being shown, so Canadians abroad like yogi should be okay.

If you're gonna use a free online stream then keep your computer updated and back up your personal data. Put it somewhere offline, like in a disconnected flash / usb drive. Do not watch streams on a laptop containing your only copy of your thesis / Great Canadian Novel / genre-defining metal song. There is so much nasty malware out there these days ... we've had two unprecedented ransomware attacks in the last month, and it's going to get worse before it gets better (if it ever gets better)

yeah, Dressler was like five yards deep in the endzone when 45 dragged him down. That was some Sam Losco level greasy there. Hope Demski is okay. Hate seeing promising young guys go down like that.

Actually thought Glenn had a slight edge on Nichols. Glenn had to deal with far better coverage than Nichols. The Riders secondary looked drunk during our big rally. And Glenn looked pretty savvy extending plays outside the pocket. We scored 6 on Glenn turnovers, they scored 7 on Nichols' one pick. Does Dressler have a new second gear this year? On that fly sweep in the third he looked way faster than I remember. Guy was really moving.

I've never seen a team crush the pocket like we did last night .. and repeatedly allow the QB to escape, extend the play and throw. Glenn looked pretty pocket savvy. Our ends really didn't cover themselves in glory ... repeated roughing the passer calls, one during the critical moment in the fourth ... and I was really surprised that Westerman didn't get flagged for a pile-on/late hit on Glenn after one of our sacks. Loved that Jake Thomas sack, tho.

Suitor put the Denmark endzone miss on Denmark, said he didn't run his route at full speed. There was also that stretch where the Riders solved our protection and were burying Nichols -- they had 3-4 sacks in a couple of drives. I think it was around the time that Hardrick got hurt. That cooled Nichols down some. But yeah, I agree with the OP: Games like the one last night and the Western Final definitely put that game manager tag into serious question.

I love writing that works on multiple levels.

2017-07-01 Winnipeg at Saskatchewan Jones' substitutions confuse his secondary. Clever is not smart.

just watching the game now, I said it last year, I said it during preseason, I'll say it again: man, does the Fever look awkward out there.

UNOFFICIAL PREGAME HAIKU Riders lose haiku championship -- called for too many syllables

Yeah, this is an excellent site with great users and on-point administration. I'm pumped for another great CFL season with you freaks.

2017-06-30 Montreal at Edmonton The Als' only hope: give ball to Tyrell Sutton on every down

cfl.yaretv.com plus a VPN that makes me look like I'm in the Netherlands. US$80 (less than one dollar a game, counting playoffs) for the whole season plus US$10/mo for the VPN. Not free, but way cheaper than cable and more reliable than a stream. Been loving it. Wrote my own little PVR program for it so I can skip the TSN commercials. Quality is decent ... 720p resolution tho it looks a little blotchy, like it's been badly upconverted at some point.

2017-06-22 Saskatchewan at Montreal Roughriders rally in the fourth; maestro, please cue the Kevin Glenn pick 2017-06-23 Calgary at Ottawa More sister kissing! Have we all relocated to Saskatchewan? 2017-06-24 Edmonton at BC Wally Buono bring a spatula, gotta scrape Jennings off the turf 2017-06-25 Hamilton at Toronto Argo time machine! 2010 S.J. Green and 2008 Ray 2017-06-29 Ottawa at Calgary It's a two score game Redblack explosion, game on! Reread the first line 2017-06-30 BC at Toronto Fourth quarter, at last there's a little excitement! No one there to see

and yeah GLOW is pretty great. Real OITNB vibe to it, with Ruth being the least compelling character. If you have any doubts about it, check out the goddamn finest credits sequence on TV:

Time to get schwifty.

Let's go boatmen!

man I'm trying to enjoy this thread in the intended spirit but my brain keeps going ROCKY BUTLER ROCKET BUTLER

Brendan LaBatte is their new red-zone quarterback?

We had all those picks and turnovers but our bend-but-don't break scheme gave up a ton of passing yards, either the worst or the second worst in the CFL last year. (in points allowed, we were middle-of-the-pack)

He is basically the mayor of Shelbyville, seen here harassing a woman with excellent royal blue hair and gold body paint.

Can you even fire a guy midseason when he's wearing four different hats in the organization? Replacing a head coach is hard enough, but simultaneously replacing a VP, a GM, a HC, and a DC ... sounds like pure org chaos. I wonder if firing a coordinator is even more damaging than firing a coach ... thinking back to the bad old Bombers of 2005 who had a promising D for a couple games until Rod Rust had to take a leave, and then they became instantly, historically bad. (weirdly, the Roughrider website doesn't list a DC, it only lists a few defensive assistants and position coaches, so maybe Jones only has three hats now?)

Yeah, Bobby G. was a great receiver ... I watched him for a year in Ottawa and he got his thousand yards even with a bunch of terrible QBs. Hard to cut him in favor of a promising sophomore.

One thing to remember about the Affordable Care Act is that it substantially expanded Medicaid (basically, federal gov't health insurance for poor folks, handicapped folks, people in nursing homes, etc.) I can't find a simple nationwide expansion number, but in Washington state, 600,000 more people were enrolled in Medicare post-expansion, and in California and NY, 6 million more people were enrolled. So you have millions of people who could almost certainly not afford private health insurance (Medicaid is means-tested) now having coverage. Medicaid isn't perfect, but it's a damn sight better than being uninsured and relying on an ER for your chemotherapy. The individual mandate part of the law -- the part that says you either have health insurance or pay a tax penalty -- is the part that everyone is attacking, the one that creates a weird and freaky partnership between the government and the insurance business. This could definitely use reform, but there are success stories. Two of my close friends rely on the Washington state insurance exchange for coverage, and they are definitely up **** creek if that market destabilizes. I want single-payer too, and I'm prepared to pay higher taxes for it .. but there is a baby in the Obamacare bathwater. Just rolling back the clock to 2009 will hurt an awful lot of people. It's really hard to make drastic and fast change in the USA. It's not like Canada, where a single small committee in the PMO can unaccountably run the country as it sees fit. The American government is set up to be slow and incremental. Look at how much trouble Republicans are having with rewriting health care in the USA .. and that's with single-party control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency. The Republicans are a largely disciplined machine and even they are breaking down on the health care question. The New Deal was probably the most radical government plan in USA history .. and it would have fallen apart had not two Supreme Court justices decided at the last minute that federal intervention in the economy was not unconstitutional. And Roosevelt had a landslide mandate as well as a friendly Congress. The system is deliberately set up to allow people to jam sticks into legislative spokes. But yeah, be thankful for Canada. I have a ton of blessings in the USA, many friends, a great wife, and a solid career in a field that capitalism finds useful, but it could be very different very quickly for me.