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Sure love the SJ Green comeback, though. Dude was vintage in his first game back. Great to see. Hope he stays healthy and vacuums up a lot of those soft Ray throws.

I am not a football coach but if the DL is only rushing three against a run between the tackles, you're gonna have at least one run blocker in the second level, right? Seems like Sutton was eating them alive last week...

Yeah, I thought he was done in the CFL.

watched Calgary/Ottawa with nary a bump. this service looks solid. Just finished a python script to download VOD games so I can save them locally (mostly so I can skip commercials...the supplied player lacks a +30s button, mysteriously!) if anyone is a deep nerd and wants to see the source, lemme know.

Atomic, you just made my day, I was hunting for a youtube of that play the other day after watching the Casey Creehan video in Training Camp Memories. YOU AIN'T GONNA HURT LOBENDAHN, HE'LL BE ALRIGHT! What a great backer.

Senate Republican health care plan is out. It makes deep cuts to Medicaid. Nearly half of newborn deliveries in the USA are funded by Medicaid. What the **** does "pro-life" even mean to these people? The Congressional plan cut almost $900B in government health spending over the next decade. Strangely, it only reduced the deficit by $100B. Where is the other $800B going?

When you watch games from before the replay era, it's amazing how fast they move wihout those regular delays and appeals.

Jones detonated hard after that Demski play. Was losing his mind on the sidelines. For Mike O'Shea, that would've been an arm-around-the-shoulder teachable moment; for Jones it was just a tantrum prompt.

I only watched the fourth quarter, but Glenn looked exactly like Glenn: working that quick release, completing lots of passes, piling up some respectable yardage .. and then throwing a killer fourth-quarter pick that led to the Als' winning points. Durant looked real shaky on that throw to Sutton in the flat that forced the Als to settle for a field goal on their final drive. Gotta make that throw, man, he's made it like 100x in his CFL career.

The yaretv stream was beautiful, watched the whole fourth quarter in 720p, didn't buffer once. Pumped! I've been waiting for this service for years....thank you CFL, from this pretend Dutchman.

Wow, there's clever-smart and clever-dumb.

Hey to get back on topic, I've got a solid yaretv stream through my VPN. Turned it on just in time to see Kevin Glenn's characteristic fourth-quarter pick. And yeah, there is a massive divide in the USA between the urban areas and the boonies. And Mark is right, the Puget Sound area is indeed a nightmare to drive in ... we have okay north-south routes but our east-west routes are all messed up by our many urban lakes and waterways and gnarly hills. They've beautiful to have but damn do they screw up traffic. Add to that a rapid transit system that only serves about 150K of our 3.5MM urban population, and then consider that 50 people are moving to King County every day (Amazon alone is hiring about 500 people a week). You wind up with the fourth-worst traffic in the USA.

WOOHOOO THE SEASON IS HERE!

Listening to the Montreal radio broadcast while I finish out the day at work ... those guys are not really high on the Als. They've got big questions at almost every position. "But they're playing Saskatchewan, so it doesn't matter," they said. ouch.

Not just keeping the sack totals low, but Harris really got his running game going after we bonded up the OL. He looked like a brand new back.

We coped last year just fine with Flanders. Wonder what the least damaging ratio change we can make is ... Coates in full time, maybe? Took a look at the Bomber roster and noticed that Richards is back on the active roster; also noticed they don't have an injury list published so I guess he's still hurt?

Love TE82. For a number of years, he was the only bright light in the Bomber offence. No matter what dud we trotted out behind center, Edwards was gonna make his plays. Imagine the numbers he would have put up if he'd had consistent QBs.

Yeah, I haven't done a road trip like that, but if you read Paul Theroux's Deep South you can get some idea.

I've only driven the West once. Drove from Thunder Bay to Vancouver, took about a week to do it. Anyway, my wife and I drove Kicking Horse Pass in fine weather with light traffic in my Mazda3, which corners pretty well for a compact sedan. I still white-knuckled the whole pass. Damn there are some gnarly stretches in there ... that hairpin turn west of Banff must have claimed more than a few vehicles over the years.

Look forward to this thread being closed every year. Shut er down and bring on the regular season!

I used to hang out with a Scottish exchange student when I was at Lakehead U .. he could not believe that our nearest big city was eight hours away. North America is so huge and empty once you get west of Sault Ste. Marie. I've driven the width of Ontario twice and it's astonishing how big this province is.

VPN = Virtual Private Network. When you have VPN software running on your computer, all of your network traffic is encrypted and routed to a computer somewhere else. That computer decrypts your traffic and forwards it onto the Internet, then encrypts the responses and forwards them back to you. This has two benefits: 1) your ISP can't tell what you're doing, so they can't snoop your user data and sell it, they can't filter or throttle or narc your torrents or streams, and they can't tell if you're a Chinese dissident looking up information on Falun Gong. VPNs are very popular in China and with business users who are travelling away from their home offices. 2) this is the good part for you and me: all your internet traffic appears to be coming from the country where your VPN server is located. My VPN server is in Rotterdam, so when I turn it on and connect to the CFL streaming site, what they see is a Dutchman who likes niche sports instead of me, the Canadian in America who doesn't want to pay for a cable subscription just for five months of ESPN a year. I use ExpressVPN (https://www.expressvpn.com) although I didn't shop around much so I don't know if it's the best. Getting it running wasn't too hard.

I was gonna post about how the Made In Canada plugin was working great for me because I was watching a TFC game on TS1 HD. Until I looked at the TSN schedule and saw there was no TFC game tonight. The TSN channel was just looping about ten seconds of the soccer game over and over. But it was soccer, so I couldn't tell.

I purchased a single game package for the Riders / Als season opener thru my VPN using my American credit card. Figures that the CFL wouldn't reject payment from cards in the countries they don't serve ... I bet a lot of people who use this service will be Canadian travellers. Fingers crossed -- I've wanted convenient CFL streams ever since TSN took the free replays off their website. The free streams from firstroweu and reddit got me through ok, but there was always the chance they'd conk out mid-game or stutter or be the wrong broadcast entirely and it was a pain in the ass to hunt up the good ones. So paying for a real streaming service is cool by me, especially since it comes with on-demand streaming of past games. I'll let you guys know how it works out.

I'll see if it'll work with my Dutch VPN this weekend... wonder if it will accept payment from a US credit card...