johnzo

If you're ever concerned about this very thing, check the color of the header of your favorite football discussion board. If it's not green and has no Rod Pedersen real estate ads, then you can be sure you're not suffering through the hell-on-earth of the Great Tribulation. I've used this in dreams, it totally works.

Maybe Henoc chills at home and waits for a team to run into national injury trouble, then signs at a premium for a partial season? Keeps his mileage low and his salary high? (and then he gets cut again the next year because he's overpaid)

Hey! If we can get this thread to 10 pages, then maybe Muamba will sig-- (nevermind)

Eventually Republicans will pay a price for this. They are way out of step with public opinion, which is for stronger gun control.

Players' reaction: I once had an animated gif of Lapo smashing his headset during the fun part of the -2010- 2009 Grey Cup ... wish I could find that, I could use it today.

alas, Demski is #10 now.

Lights off gives you some deniability, I think. Lights on is like "Hold my beer!" type stupidity.

I put a lot of Jones criticism on this board to Springfield / Shelbyville kinda stuff - Jones makes a great heel because he's an ******* who is good at his job and gets a lot out of his players. I even thought the RRs signing Hurl made sense -- he's your backup for your stud ratio-breaker who can get you through a game in case your big guy goes down, and then you rejigger your ratio the following week. This, though -- this is shitting-the-bed-with-the-lights-on stupid. Replacing a guy who at his best, is a Harris / Singleton class ratio breaker with an RB on the wrong side of 30 who's been straight up cut a bunch of times and an LB who is a step too slow to play the position full-time....I just don't get it. Bond is a catch, but if they needed to cut Muamba to afford him, they're robbing Peter, spending his money on a new garage full of jet-skis, and then promising Paul they'll pay him next week.

The board was united, but then came the Do Or Die heel turn...

...or maybe you let Muamba shake free, crowd up the MLB market a bit, and then sign Reed or Woods for a lot less dough.

I'd trade a pick for Muamba instantly, even for just a single year of him. Ottawa and Toronto are not set at MLB (is Montreal?) so there will be bidders for him if he's cut. I'd want to pre-empt the bidding war and trade for him. He instantly fills our most pressing need and has the right passport. Our Grey Cup window is right now and our Canadian depth is miles ahead of where it's been in the past, so I'm comfortable sacrificing the pick. First round picks turn into starters less than 50% of the time and they turn into a real ratio breaker like a Muamba way less than that. He's in his prime and judging from what I saw late last season, he's back in CFL form.

I'll always be rooting for Drew Willy, but man he's got a tall hill to climb in Montreal.

He's second-all time in Bomber sacks and a Grey Cup champion ... he's seen here moderating his menacing stare so he doesn't slag the camera's lens ... he's the mighty TONY NORMAN! #vintage55 (like the big ugly watermark says, this photo is from Scott Grant Photography. He has tons of great vintage Bomber shots -- alas, all road whites, but based on the other teams in the photos I think he's based in the Eastern division....)

No, take it to the free agent thread! We need the posts there!

I always understood "in all thy Son's command" to mean that the country was in obedience to Christ. But all the other references to thee and thou in the song are clearly about Canada and not about God. Six year old me saw "thy Son" and also "see thee rise" and figured biblically loaded language meant biblical intent, and then I just didn't think about it for forty years, until today.

(tho I guess "thy sons" is meant to be "Canada's sons" instead of Jesus. Learn a new thing every day.)

It's interesting that the change of a religious bit is being portrayed as a gender change instead of a religious change.

Bill to replace "in all thy Son's command" with "in all of us command" in O Canada passes the Senate, just needs royal assent. This oughta cause some fireworks.

As if #randleisland wasn't scary enough, now it has gaitors...

Let's not form political opinions based on what random Twitter jackwagons say.

No more half measures. I think we should sign Sherritt, Bighill, Reed and Singleton and let them fight it out in TC.

Today is the first anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack.

Of course it's a border collie. I took my little brother to a sheepdog trial once and one of the shepherds let him play fetch with a border collie -- but only for a couple minutes because apparently border collies can get "fetch neurosis" where they get addicted to fetching and will do it over and over and over and over without end and they will freak out if they can't fetch.

Flashback to my favorite post on Durant: Always been a fan of keyhole-pass DL-overpowering Durant, but how much of that guy is left now? Hope last year's struggles were due to a crap team and not due to him losing his stuff.

On the subject of men being shitty: https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/1/19/16897722/sexual-abuse-usa-gymnastics-larry-nassar-explained The USA gymnastics thing is ******* horrifying. One team doctor abused more than 100 women and everyone else involved pulled a Briles and looked the other way. Dr. Nassar is going away for the rest of his life, but the judge is making him listen to everyone's victim statements during the sentencing. Good. I'd like all the enablers to be in there listening as well, except that they've already heard most of the stories, so maybe there would be no point.