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Yeah, Jon Snow is the son of the old mad king Rhegar Targaryean, Dany's father, the one who was killed by Jaime the Kingslayer Jon's mother is Liana Stark, Ned's sister.

My prediction: Arya wants to kill Cersei. Cersei is protected by FrankenMountain. So the title card fight next season will be Arya vs. The Mountain. Arya will have to figure out how to kill something that's already dead.

Youtube of the game:

yup, from the stands you can't see that tramp stamp. good lord, that's brutal ugly. Still think the BC road uniforms look fantastic, though.

The biggest groan I had was when Montreal put seven or eight guys on the line, rushed them all, and buried Willy. They telegraphed the blitz so hard and we had no answer. But it's game one. Gonna hold off on panicking for a few weeks.

loving this thread. the kids are all right.

Holy cow, Jacquie, that's like Coen Bros. movie stuff. A couple weeks ago I was talking with @kelownabomberfan about how my Muslim friends in Seattle told me they are frightened of Trump. Aziz Ansari (Parks & Rec, stand-up comic, etc) talks about this fear way better than I can: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/aziz-ansari-why-trump-makes-me-scared-for-my-family.html

yeah, and no knock on Durant's football intelligence, which I have no ability to evaluate, but for me what made the guy special was his athleticism and especially his escapability. Not a lot of QBs around who can shrug off DTs like he did in his prime. It'll be interesting to see if he still has that and if he doesn't, how it impacts his game.

Yeah, me too. I mean, good on Mike Riley for trying to make it right but his work is of lesser importance to hers'.

The notorious thing about the Stanford swimmer rape case is that the dude got 60 days for raping an unconscious woman next to a dumpster. That's why there was a massive outcry. The victim worked for a hellish year to make him pay for his crime, the prosecutor beat his high-dollar lawyers and convinced 12 jurors to convict him on three counts (rape charges are pretty tricky to convict on, especially in front of a jury). And the judge was like, well, you seem like a nice boy and we don't want to damage your future prospects, so let's let you go with a slap on the wrist and put this behind us. One imagines that if he were not an elite Olympic prospect, this would have gone differently. With such a tiny sentence, he'll do his time in the county jail, which is much less scary that the state pen. Now to be fair, he also has to register as a sex offender, he's lost his scholarship, USA Swimming has ejected him, and any google on his name will reveal him to be a big ol' sex predator. So he's taken some hits, but people wanted more.

The thing that kills me about this OL is that we're supposedly talent-poor but then our discards go off to start on other teams. Sorensen and Greaves are both Grey Cup champs. What's going on there?

Westerman vs. the Montreal OL:

It's funny how exactly these teams match up -- both teams have pocket passers with questionable OL and a pedigreed receiving corps. Both teams have fearsome (on paper) front sevens and secondaries that have some question marks. Even the kickers look like a wash -- Bede was a 90% kicker last year. Only daylight I see between them is that I like our RB better, but I don't know how healthy our RB is.

Remember the Phillip Hunt vs. Simeon Rottier game on opening day 2010? When Hunt buried Glenn over and over because Rottier just could not deal with him? That is what I would like to see. As a fan of the whole league, I'm interested to see what Cato looks like after a year of experience and Calvillo coaching. Is he gonna progress or has he hit his ceiling already?

A little of both, I think. The Argos D looked Stublery soft, lots of wide-open spaces for receivers to run to and Masoli hit them. That said, I thought Masoli looked good in the pocket, he moved smoothly away from the rush on a number of plays. And he took care of the ball, tho I remember him clanking at least one pass off an Argos DB's hands.

yeah, that Stanford story is shitty and heartbreaking -- but in the past, I'm not sure it would have been a national story, it just would have quietly gone away, so there's that.

yeah, hindsight is 20/20 but you have to wonder about keeping the 36-year-old with a banged-up shoulder over the young heir apparent.

Gotta love the ol' corner route from the 1 yard line...

Burris has already announced he plans to play in 2017.

Go Lirim!

Ouch, Ray throwing into double or triple coverage on that post pattern to Elliott.

Gotta be impressed by Brenda Tracy -- hopefully her story reaches some men, changes some behavior. What she does cannot be easy, to put it lightly.

Fans in Toronto need some coaching up, making all that noise when the Argos are running short yardage...

Great punt, nice special teams / D play by the TiCats. Uniforms look great on the field, Adidas didn't ruin them. Like the subtle blue outline on the Argos' numbers. Hope Lirim H. bounces back. Or is this the bitching about soccer thread?

yay! CFL is back! Don't really care who wins, just wanna see a classic CFL game in an exciting new venue with an enthusiastic crowd. I'm curious to see if Masoli is a one-game wonder. I always root for newer QBs entering the CFL, because unless we have sufficient QB talent, our league's games suck. My stream tonight is from the UK so it'll be interesting to see if any Brexit news leaks in...