johnzo

I was in Ottawa for the last two Rough Riders years. The fans who were left, the 10,000 or so die-hards, are great football fans and I want to see them celebrating tonight! So go Redblacks!

Well thank you. One of the benefits of a Canadian upbringing. The thing about truth, though, is that it remains truth no matter how eloquently or politely it is stated. People have very good reasons to be frightened of a Trump presidency. Some of them may be less eloquent and polite than I am, and some might speak in what may appear to be hyperbole. But they are still speaking truth. They are honestly frightened, and their reasons are not stupid or farfetched.

Here's the thing, man. There was some seriously vile stuff in Trump's platform. http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/20/donald-trump-says-hed-absolutely-require-muslims-to-register/?_r=0 There's video out there of this, if you don't trust the big bad MSM. Isn't it reasonable that people might be anxious and frightened after electing a guy who has said aloud that he wants to make a big handy list of Muslims? What are they going to use that list for? Birthday cards? Eid party invites? Lemme get some of your anticipated responses out of the way: That was almost a year ago! I'm pretty sure if someone made threats against your family and your community, that you'd rightly not let bygones be bygones after a year. It was just a campaign promise! No one knows what Trump is going to do! Sure, but the bottom line is that making a big government list of Muslims is not a deal-breaker for American voters. How terrifying do you think that is, that millions of your fellow citizens wouldn't object to seeing your name on a list? Listen, I agree with Obama: I want Trump to succeed, because I have seen failed presidencies and they are ugly. If he makes this country a better place, I'll eat crow all day long. I've been wrong about politics before. But I am also going to have lots of sympathy for the people who have been directly targeted by his rhetoric, and I hope you'll do me the courtesy of not dismissing that sympathy and anxiety as "leftist fear-mongering."

Dr. Strange -- starts slow with some boring origin story stuff that all the nerds know (I guess everyone else needs it, so whatever) but gets better and better as it goes on and saves its best for last. Loved the effects, they justified paying the extra $$ for 3D, and not many films do that nowadays.

Finally getting to watch the games -- holy cow, that TD pass from Jennings to Arsenault beating triple coverage. Gunslinger throw.

sorry, bustamente, I think you're stuck with your laundry.

We would've been in the Grey Cup in 1983 if Clements hadn't gotten hurt. We were absolutely killing the Lions in the first half of the WF. Alas, when Huff came in, we flatlined.

Nope. Only citizens can vote and I'm just a green card holder. Still have lots of feelings about it though, because I get to see it up close.

Here's a better look at that Cincinati line: Yes, if the priority was to help people vote efficiently, then you would think that adding voting facilities would be a priority. The funny thing about long voting lines is that they happen in places that have large minority populations and Republican state governments - Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Ohio. North Carolina in particular did a bunch of stuff to make it harder for minority folks to vote -- closing down polling stations, arbitrarily striking people from the voting rolls, restricting early voting, and shuttering DMVs in minority areas so that people can't get the ID they need to vote. The NC state government acted immediately after parts of the Federal Voting Rights Act were struck down by the Supreme Court. Their vote-suppression laws targeted black Americans with "almost surgical precision" according to the U.S. Court of Appeals, and got slapped down. This is one of those things that makes me intractably anti-Republican: when you can only win by rigging the game, by preventing people from voting, then I'm not on your side. It's also a reason why I have zero regard for the argument that both sides are equally awful: only one of those sides is trying to drag us back to the dark days of Jim Crow and poll taxes and the KKK and church burnings and so forth. That's a higher-level evil and **** those people.

Hoo boy that would be a big middle finger to Nichols, bringing Franklin in ... JF has taken Nichols' job before.

Also, here's how screwed up things are in the states: people in Cincinnati having to wait hours and hours in line to vote. How long does it take to vote in Canada? (This is just a portion of the line, which extends more than a kilometer)

The astonishing thing about Hillary Clinton is that the Republicans have been tossing nothingburgers at her for years now -- how much time and money did they spend investigating Benghazi? And they haven't made any of it stick. So, either she is a Professor Moriarty-level evil supergenius, whose plans are so perfect that the authorities are powerless to stop her. Or the people who are prosecuting her are utterly incompetent. Or, perhaps, the charges against her are horseshit.

I was sure that AC was going to be the HC next year. Totally fits the Als' mode of making moves that are more splashy than sensible. And those good Als teams were way more than just Calvillo. Sure, he made the whole thing go but they were stacked at every position, especially during the Trestman years.

Glad to see Jennings got the team nod from the Lions. He's going to lose out to the robot from Calgary, but he was sure exciting to watch this year, and if he tidies up his game he's a surefire future MOP. Great young QB, love to see those guys coming into the league.

Just love that we're rostering four draft picks from this year.

Don't know the bitrate that CJOB uses, but if they broadcast it as a ok-quality MP3 that'd use about a megabyte a minute, or about 180MB for the whole game. And I'm certain they're not broadcasting with that kind of quality. I'd guess their bitrate is a third or a half of that, and then half that again because CJOB will be broadcasting in mono, not stereo. So it's going to be a few tens of megabytes at most.

I remember back in 2000 when Tom Brady was behind Michael Bishop on the Patriots' depth chart ... very poor recognition of talent there.

Medlock, Leggett, Loffler, Loffler, Bond, Medlock They've got Mayo listed to fill out the rookie category ... he only played five games, but he was just shy of a 1000-yard pace, with 277 yards in those games. Was always impressed with him when he was in, hope he sticks around.

It's completely stupid that the CFL is okay with letting players go on the field and risk lifelong injury, and yet it gets its panties in a knot about players doing club drugs. ******* puritans.

Nice bit of reporting there, turning the chain guys into sources.

Great report, Sammy. One of the best things on MBB.

Speaking of receivers, gotta love the way Denny has played his way back onto this team. 7 TDs in eight games and he's starting to trademark that corner route to the endzone.

Just getting to rewatch the game now and my HH goes to D for the convoy they set up for Leggett on his first quarter pick. On that single play, he gets great blocks from Randle, Burnett, Loffler, Heath, Westerman, Cole, and Shologan. Just love watching this team rally. Our guys know how to flip from D to O in a hummingbird heartbeat, we're getting lots of practice running those picks back.

The media was reporting that the Edmonton starting job was an open competition back in 2013. http://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/nichols-reilly-duel-for-qb-job-as-edmonton-eskimos-open-training-camp-1.1307690 Man, Nichols was snakebit in Edmonton -- concussion in 2012, gruesome ankle break later that year, blows out his ACL in 2013, then he's out of favour with Chris Jones in 2015. Nice to see a guy put the bad luck behind him. I seem to recall that back before his leg injuries, Nichols had some serious wheels on him, he could get downfield in a hurry.