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Has Marve ever had the benefit of a competent OL in front of him? All the great Marve firedrills I remember came when his protection gave him less than a steamboat to work with. (I didn't watch the preseason game. stupid TSNGo)

Not a huge wrestling fan but I do love this sequence right here from an old-time Portland amateur loop. It starts at about 9:40, can't get Youtube to both embed and jump to a specific time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jONzX-BqQ#t=9m40s

I remember Doug Berry had a great moment during a halftime interview once, the Bombers were losing and he was clearly in a pissy mood and wasn't willing to entertain whatever stupid question the reporter asked.

C'mon, be real, championship games in the snow are awesome.

From the comments: That's actually kinda funny.

This is great news.* If the Coyotes move, that's one less expansion team the NHL can sell and one less slice out of the talent pie. Put 'em in Quebec. I loved the QC / MTL rivalry in the old days, and Brandon is right: those old blue Nordiques unis are crazysexycool. * Except for Coyotes fans. Sorry you guys, I know it sucks to lose a team.

For all his faults, he was better than just about every other quarterback we've rolled out since.Only recent Bomber QBs I'd take over Bishop would be first-half-of-2014 Drew Willy or the 2010 model of Buck Pierce, before he wrecked his elbow.

I imagine that Reebok had the exact same conversation with the Als and the Bombers: "Let me get this straight: you normally wear blue, and white, and a THIRD color? What is this, arenaleague3? Let's get rid of that tacky colored trim and replace it with a subtly different blue! There! soothing!" I swear someone at Reebok had stock in an indigo factory. Though the lark wings were cool I guess.

What happened with Chad Simpson in 2013? Didn't he walk out on the team? Whatever the reason, I'm glad he's not here. In all my ~30 years of watching the CFL, he's the most frustrating running back I can remember. He'd be heading upfield with a good head of steam, needing 2-3 more yards for a first down with one or two tacklers in front of him. And then, something would misfire in his brain and he'd decide to pivot and run east-west, or stop dead and juke -- try to finese the situation rather than attacking it. And then, without exception, the other team would rally to him and he'd get gang-tackled and then we'd punt. It happened every. single. fscking. game. If I were Tim Burke and I had to coach Chad Simpson, I'd look like a kicked dog too. Maybe Tim would've won a few more games if Mr. Mack had gotten him an RB who wasn't allergic to the first down stick. Now, if we could get the 2011 Chris Garrett back, that'd be sweet. Garrett is the best back the Bombers have dressed since Charles Roberts. Don't know if the 2011 Chris Garrett still exists, though.

I suspect Yantz won't see the field. I think if he were going to be part of the QB conversation at all he'd have played tonight. Next week Willy is going to get half the game, that doesn't leave a lot of reps for the other four guys. I'm betting we see 1/2 Willy and 1/4 each for Brohm and Marve against Hamilton. Is it possible that Portis could be cut and Yantz kept on the PR? Or could the Bombers keep both of them on the PR/IR? I didn't see the game tonight (stupid TSNGo) so I don't know where Portis stands.

From the article: "Impossible." I like that word. Hope the Argos and the TiCats don't change up their looks in 2016, I think they both look pretty classy right now.

Bishop beat every team in the league in 2009 except for Saskatchewan and Calgary. (We beat Calgary that year, but it was a LeFors victory) And his win against Montreal was a beauty. Bomb after bomb after bomb. 411 yards on just 17 completions. And it wasn't a nothing game, that win kept us in playoff contention for another week. I often wonder what the history of the Bombers would have been if Kelly had won the Boat Bowl against the TiCats...

Ottawa's gotta be reaching out to McCallum right now. (trivia learned while googling to see if this is actually happening:) It would be his second stint in Ottawa since he was actually a Rough Rider back in 1993. And he's the only player in CFL history to have played against all three Ottawa franchises.

We gave up an opening-kickoff TD in 2010 too, but we destroyed the Ticats anyway. Buck Pierce played like Matt Dunigan. Philip Hunt was in Kevin Glenn's business all day. Terrence Edwards was unstoppable deep. Lapo and Mack looked like they were starting a new dynasty. Good times, briefly.

...said MBB's first training camp cut.

Swaggerville now spread all across the East: Johnson in Ottawa, Hefney in Montreal, Suber in Toronto, and (somehow) Stewart is still a Ti-Cat.

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Josh Portis had #6 all last year, and I think he wore it when he was gameday rostered.

I haven't seen any mention of Babcock being the GM also. Would a coach / GM have the discipline to build for 3-5 years out, which is what the Leafs say they are doing? If Babcock isn't the GM, the Leafs approach seems really weird. The team has committed to a slash n' burn rebuild to address their massive talent deficit ... but they aren't building from front office / player personnel dept. out. Instead they've blown megabucks on a coach who's had the luxury of a very consistent talent pipeline for the last few years. Plus, let's say Babcock coaxes some overachievement out of the rebuilding years' roster -- he just sets the rebuild back in terms of draft picks and in terms of discipline to stick to it, because if there's hope flickering for the Leafs, there'll be huge pressure from Leaf Nation towards the same old short-term thinking that's burned them so badly. And if the rebuild works and the Leafs become a contender in 2019 or 2020, Babcock's welcome in Toronto will almost certainly be worn out by then. So I don't get how this works for them. Is this just a PR move, one to placate Leaf Nation with a big signing? Whoever the Leafs' GM turns out to be, I hope they like Babcock.

Re: Leggett at SAM .. I've seen Leggett have trouble tackling receivers, is he a good enough tackler to play up closer to the LOS?

If they think they can get a cool half a billion for an expansion team, then you can see why they're working so hard to keep the Coyotes in Arizona. Franchise movement cuts down on expansion opportunities...

The Tacoma Dome is a terrible venue for just about anything. The T-Birds draw between 2-6K a game. They play in Showare Center in suburban Kent, about 15 miles south of downtown, which is a great little junior hockey arena, we have a great time every time we go down there. Even the hot dogs are tasty. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have an NHL team here, as long as someone else was paying for it, and as long as they were called the Metropolitans, and as long as they wore these classic sweaters: http://www.ebbets.com/product/seattle-metropolitans-1917-authentic-hockey-sweater/HockeySweaters . There's this guy that wears one to T-Birds games and they're even more epic-looking in real life.

Seattle does not look like a likely destination for any NHL team in the near term. We have a plan for an arena south of downtown, but that plan requires an NBA team and there's no NBA team to put in it. If an NHL team ever did come to Seattle, it would exist to merely complement the financials of an NBA team. On top of that, there is no huge enthusiasm for the NHL in the moneyed or political classes here. Hell, I don't even know if there's a fanbase for NHL hockey here. I've heard that there are plans for hockey-first arenas out in the suburbs of Bellevue or Tukwilla but those are in the very very early stages at this point.

Wow. The Coyotes have entered their Horn Chen phase.

It's amazing how shitty Rogers is being about this.